Category: On Writing
Why Crime?
I always knew I wanted to be a writer but it never seemed like an actual career choice. I left school without many qualifications and found myself homeless for a year in my late teens. It was a tough time but one thing that I’ve always done, and which I continued to do, even on […]
Interview With Rachel Howard, Author of The Risk Of Us
What makes a family? What makes a family risky? In Rachel Howard’s fearless and deeply empathetic novel THE RISK OF US (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; April 2019), she tackles not only what creates kinship – but what can destroy it. Told through the lens of a childless forty-something couple who become foster parents of a young […]
Dresses—Reinvented
When I was the Chief Brand Officer of ELLE Décor and Metropolitan Home, there was a showroom-event-a-minute and a trade show every month. It was a role that demanded that I look the part—stylish, sophisticated, and decked out in designer clothes. The first two I had reasonably down, but any funds for a high-end brand wardrobe were limited. […]
Failure Is Impossible
My book, Women Who Launch: Women Who Shattered Glass Ceilings, provides a well-deserved shout-out to the intrepid women who chafed against the established paradigm that the fairer sex was only meant to be their husband’s eye candy. These fabulous femmes left their imprints on society and thereby made great strides in levelling the gender field. […]
The Hollow Bones
It’s not every day you find yourself prowling around the basement of a natural history museum, being stared at by stuffed armadillos and long-extinct Tasmanian tigers. Then again, while researching THE HOLLOW BONES, I kept falling down the most remarkable rabbit holes, never quite knowing where they might lead. The idea for my current book […]
A Love Letter to the Romantic Novelists’ Association New Writer’s Scheme
Writing is a solitary occupation. Anyone who pretends otherwise is fibbing. By the time you read this, I’ll be a published novelist with my debut dual-timeline novel The Forgotten Village. I’ve got a handful of really lovely writing friends, most of them local, some online, a fabulous agent and a wonderful publisher. But rewind two […]
From the Queen of Broken to King Unveiled
I was broken. Not my heart, but my mind, my spirit. My two greatest assets, the things I’d always been able to call upon, had failed me. The ledge of sanity loomed just overhead, a daily offering of hope, but I had no strength to reach for it, no assurance that even if I did, […]
Moments That Mattered: Excerpt
In Moments that Mattered (Page Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-64462-434-0) author Pamela Hull writes stories of ordinary experiences that were passed over or dismissed but in recall hold clues to lifetime behaviors, attitudes and choices. The span of our lives. Within each segment are disparate, illustrative stories of routine, everyday occurrences. Insignificant at the time, they eventually proved to be life-altering […]
When Tourists Come Home
Children do not get to pick the cities they are brought up in. They arrive as strangers and are responsible for making themselves at home. But what makes a city home? In the late 1980s my family returned to Lahore, Pakistan from Saudi Arabia and our status changed from that of summer tourists simply looking […]
Excerpt from Beautiful Justice: Reclaiming My Worth After Human Trafficking and Sexual Abuse by Brooke Axtell
A story of healing and a guide to seeking justice after sexual abuse from Brooke Axtell, one of the foremost survivor experts on sexual assault, domestic violence, and human trafficking When Brooke Axtell was seven years old, her nanny subjected her to sex trafficking. Today, she is a champion and advocate for women around the […]
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