Category: On Writing
THE GETAWAY by Kieran Scott
We are delighted to feature an excerpt from Kieran Scott’s THE GETAWAY! In a taut locked-room mystery from New York Times bestselling author Kieran Scott, a group of longtime friends confronts their darkest secrets―and deadliest impulses―on the brink of a hurricane. For years, three couples have gathered at The Villa―billionaire Lincoln Foster’s Hamptons estate―for lavish weekends among […]
The Process of Writing The Feminine Code By Sabrina Bendory
When my publishers approached me three months after the release of my book Detached and asked if I’d be open to writing another book — one that dove deeper into toxic relationship dynamics and explored dark feminine energy — I was intrigued. When they said they wanted it as soon as possible, I thought they had lost […]
Finding My Voice After Fifty: How Faith, Cancer, and an Unexpected Dream Led Me Back to Writing
My path has been shaped by questions, dreams, and mysteries that kept leading me forward. Growing up Catholic in the middle of Illinois, I asked difficult questions few wanted to answer. As a child preparing for confirmation, I struggled with the idea that only Catholics could reach heaven. I couldn’t reconcile that with what I […]
Finding My Righteous Rage, or How a Political Spark and Ancient Archetypes Shaped My Book
I always knew I had a book inside me, but I didn’t know what it would be or when it would appear. Both my parents were authors; my father wrote a novel at the age of 21, and my mother wrote a couple of novellas later in life. Neither of them had any formal writing […]
Getting Creative With the Truth: Writing Blue Life By Mundy McLaughlin
“He is creative with the truth” was a phrase my father used to describe a nephew who, from the age of five, told incredible fictions about his adventures. One involved going deep down into the sea in a submersible when he had really been on a conventional beach vacation with his family. Blue Life, while […]
Declining a Generational Inheritance: The Quiet Identity Work Behind Liberation from the Diet Prison By Regina Oswald
The Weight Was Never My Body The stone fit perfectly in my palm — smooth, cool, heavier than it looked. I was walking through a labyrinth in Vista, California, August 2021, speaking into that stone as the circles grew tighter and the center drew closer. Naming everything I wanted to release. Everything that had become […]
Election Antics & Historical Fiction by Maureen Brady
When researching my historical novel, Tessa’s Landing, I came across a piece about a New York City election that happened when my protagonist, sixteen-year-old Tessa, was still a greenhorn. She arrived in America toward the end of 1846, at the height of the potato famine. I was surprised to learn that election day then was […]
10 Things We Know About Enheduanna, the World’s First Named Author
Moments after stumbling across her name, I wanted to write about Enheduanna. I first encountered her while reading an article on Sargon the Great, her father and the world’s first emperor. Then, among Sargon’s five children, I saw her name: his daughter, Enheduanna, born a princess who became a high priestess and the world’s first […]
How an Anthology of Angry Witches Came to Be by Jamie Ryu and M.B. Thurman
When we first conceptualized our vision for Curses, Charms & Other Enchantments: Bewitching Stories of “Hysterical” Women, there was one thing we agreed on immediately: this would not be a light-hearted witchy romp. Of course, there is a place for those kinds of stories, and we love to escape into new realities, but this isn’t […]
The Process of Writing I Am Rare
I Am Rare began with my intent. From there, the story unfolded. After my son was diagnosed with a rare genetic condition, I knew there would come a time when he would ask why he was different. I knew I needed the words to help him understand himself through a positive lens. I also knew […]
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