Category: On Writing
Safe by Claudia Hinz
I began writing SAFEKEEPING before the pandemic. The first draft of the novel had a different title. There were different characters. A different plot. The novel worked on many levels. It was polished enough to go out on submission to publishers, and the response was largely enthusiastic. But I knew something was missing. Someone was […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Chital Mehta
Have You Seen Romit? When twenty-five-year-old Romit, Usha’s adopted son, doesn’t respond to her calls, she has a sinking feeling in her stomach. Her husband, Om, who has never accepted their adopted son, tries to convince her to move on. With time, though, it’s clear Usha is right: Romit has gone missing. When the police […]
The Creation of Paper Girls Burn: A Borderline Personality Disorder Memoir by Pippa Scott
“The author pulls no punches in revealing things that she’s done….Her frankness is refreshing….An indelible, sharply detailed life story that’s earnest and engrossing.Our Verdict: GET IT.” -Kirkus Reviews I attempted to write Paper Girls Burn a handful of times throughout the last decade. It would go the same way each time. I would write maybe […]
How A Tiny Set of Overlooked Words Can Illuminate God by Varina Buntin Willse
Varina Buntin Willse is an award-winning author of spiritual and narrative nonfiction with degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Oxford University. Her latest book, Beneath and Between: And Other Overlooked Words that Illuminate God, gives readers a fresh vocabulary to experience an ineffable God. Varina is the creative force behind […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Jessica Siskin
Part satire, part emotional character study, LOOKS PERFECT explores identity, performative culture, and what authenticity means in a hyper-visible world offering a timely look at internet fame and the gap between how we’re seen and who we are. Siskin brings a uniquely informed perspective: a former fashion executive and founder of the viral Instagram brand Misterkrisp, she […]
Writing Into the Shadows: How I Wrote the Hard Stuff by Suzanne Sherman
The first book I wrote in was turquoise, with a tiny metal key to lock and unlock it, a key which, at nine years old, I promptly lost. What I found, however, was a best friend for life. For the next five and a half decades, and to this day, I visit with my best […]
On Writing My Three Fathers, A Memoir: A Window That Turned Out To Be a Door
My Three Fathers, in some ways started as a love letter to my father Juan—the opening section is implicitly addressed to him. And it’s a letter of reckoning: this is what you missed and yet helped create by your absence. But also, here, I have made this for you. By the time I met my […]
How I Found the Seed for The Ballad of the Fugitive William Parker from My Own Family Tree By Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
My mother passed away in May 2015, six months after the release of my narrative nonfiction book, Dr. Mütter’s Marvels. When I heard that the book had made the New York Times best seller list, my mother was the first person I called, both of screaming incoherently and laughing through tears. She was the reason […]
Because I Have Lived It by Joanne E. Betzler
Joanne E. Betzler – author of Nothing to Discuss – Breaking From 20 Years of Intimate Partner Violence I grew up believing that abuse means visible scars and bruises. Broken bones. There was zero physical evidence that my 20-year marriage had swallowed me whole and erased my identity. From my insider perspective, the union was […]
Was It Worth It? A Journey of Leaving, Losing and Becoming by Maryam Rafiee
As a teenager, I dreamed of becoming a cycling champion, but there was no women’s team at the time. Cycling in public was also forbidden for women. I cycled through the streets of Tehran wearing loose jogging clothes and a cap, trying to look like a boy so I would not be stopped by the morality […]
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