Category: On Writing
Manifesting Time and Me – Leah E. Reinhart
Being a new author comes with its fair amount of challenges, especially when juggling multiple jobs. It can be expensive and extremely time consuming. But, I’ve never been one for doing things the easy way. For example, I finished my first manuscript during the time I opened up my business; The Wellness Garden Tool Shed, […]
How I Learned to Improve My Craft
Everyone imagines sending their book off to an agent and magic happens. When I put my first finished novel in the mail, I thought it was going to be a best seller. Then I got form rejection after form rejection. I know now that a form rejection means the agents probably weren’t getting past the […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Jacqueline Sheehan
In the novel, The Tiger in the House, Hayley, a six year-old girl, is the survivor of a triple homicide. Due to her age, but more importantly the trauma, she is unable to give Delia, a child protection worker, any information that would find Hayley’s parents or information about the violent crime. The author, Jacqueline […]
Why do I write?
Why do I write? I want to give a noble answer – like saying that I always knew I’d be a writer, that I worshipped Louisa May Alcott, that I wrote my first story at the age of three. I want to say that I need to write like I need to breathe. To feel […]
The Upsides of Being Unpublishable
The Upsides of Being Unpublishable: How I learned to love going it alone My first novel was unpublishable. At least, that was what I began to suspect after a year of sending my manuscript out to agents and publishers. That was the conclusion I came to when the one firm in the UK (that I […]
When Facebook Takes Your Breath Away: Katie Kennedy
There should be a term for it, social media updates which are, well…breathtaking. Katie Kennedy kindly lets us share her words from her Facebook wall today. I ordered flowers to be delivered to our son’s pediatric oncologist. When the florist asked what the card should say, I said, “Joe Kennedy started college.” She was quiet […]
Midwife to Author: A Winding Path
I didn’t exactly decide to be an author, but as a midwife, I’d always been a storyteller. I used stories to teach, to warn, to share personal experiences, to make patients laugh, but I had no aspirations to be an author. I even kept a journal for years and wrote poetry, most of it bad, but there […]
My Grandmother Was an Elf!
Have you ever wanted to know an elf? I’ve known them, all my life. I hail from an Irish family, which is why the gift of gab comes so easily, and why I’ve always been enchanted by elves. Maybe that’s why we named our production company Elfenworks. Hello! You don’t know me, because my work […]
We Are the Stories
They named him Emir, after those powerful Arab rulers. He was an Ardennes draft horse, a roan gelding in a village in southwest Sweden. Why that name? His world was one of fog and snow, and summers so brief you hardly knew them, not one of palaces and sand dunes shimmering with heat. Barely a […]
Writing Ireland’s Social History
How a tragedy and a passion to give voice caused me to self-publish my debut fiction novel focusing on Ireland’s Social History. Back in March 2017 I was not a person who religiously watched the daily news bulletins or read the daily news-papers. On March 3rd last year I called my mother to wish her […]
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