Category: On Writing
Psychoanalysis and Memoir
I am a psychologist, psychoanalyst, former patient and a writer. I have recently completed my memoir, The Tell. In thinking over these different roles I’ve come to see how much they have in common and how one naturally embraced another. It was my mother’s suicide that gave me the impetus to begin college. I was […]
Why I Love to Be Alone
Do you like to be alone? I know it’s not true that all writers are introverts, that there are those who like to write in teams, or who do their writing in busy cafés or at the kitchen table, enjoying the background chatter of family life. For me, though, being alone is one of the […]
In Search of Home
When I was four years old, my parents and I immigrated to the United States as Soviet Jewish refugees. I grew up speaking Russian and English, holding onto some traditions and values of the old world, while learning the customs the new. While my current married name might belie my roots, being an immigrant is […]
Finding the Confidence to Write The Missing Girl
I’ve wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember. I grew up in Essex and Berkshire, the youngest of five children and an only girl. I was quiet and shy and spent most of my time reading and writing stories. My parents encouraged me with trips to libraries and bookshops. Most […]
In Praise Of The Blind Item
I want to know less about more people. Admittedly, I’m partial. In researching and writing my new novel, Another Side of Paradise, I became thoroughly acquainted with Sheilah Graham, a columnist who pioneered gentle gossip even as she was the story, the last love of the very married (sorry, Zelda) F. Scott Fitzgerald. Call Sheilah’s […]
How Publishing My Memoir Helped Me Write a Novel That Sold
I have a grinning photograph from the day my first paperback copies of LOST IN TRANSPLANTATION arrived, taken inside my car. I was so excited I didn’t even wait to get home to open the box. I ran back into our tiny post office and waved my book around, exclaiming “My book is here!” to […]
Why I Wrote My Three Books In My Pensioner Years
One morning in Budapest during the autumn of 1944, an unknown official in charge of deporting Hungarian Jews sent back all the women accompanied by children. My Mother, Leona Grunwald, was one of those women and I was a tiny baby in her arms. I have no means of knowing who that official was and […]
Q&A with Laurie Nadel, PhD
Laurie Nadel, PhD., is a specialist in acute stress, trauma and anxiety issues. She is a member of a critical incident stress management team working with first responders. After losing her home to Hurricane Sandy, Dr. Laurie ran long-term support groups for survivors. From 2003 to 2005, she directed a program for teenagers whose fathers were […]
How Writing Made Me a More Empathic Person
My seventh English language novel released on 22 May. Hedging His Bets is the story of a high-flying investor, Jake, and his sexy British flat mate, Jess, who share a “friends with benefits” relationship…until they don’t. Hedging His Bets may rightly be described as a light read. One reviewer called it a “summer must read”. […]
It’s Never Too Late
When it comes to writing fiction, I’m a late bloomer. Like, really late. I wrote my first historical romance novel when I was forty-six. So, what the hell have I been doing all those years? I like to think I was busy becoming a writer—I just took the looooong road. Or maybe just a really […]
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