Category: On Writing
Author Interviewing Characters: Cynthia Leal Massey
Well of Deception On the morning of March 14, 1958, breeder Maggie Schneider, the Poultry Queen of Lipan County, is shot and killed while feeding her prize-winning, White Holland turkeys on her farm in south central Texas. Everyone knows who did it, but finding the killer isn’t so easy. The search uncovers a troubled family […]
The World’s Wealthiest Women: Fascinating Biographies of Heiresses, Royals, Entrepreneurs, and Entertainers: Excerpt
We are delighted to feature an excerpt from Fortunes and Fates—The Untold Stories of the World’s Richest Women by Marlene Wagman-Geller! Where wealth meets destiny, tragedy often follows. Heiresses have always dazzled with their unimaginable wealth, the cornucopia of fortune spilling opportunity at their feet. Yet, The World’s Wealthiest Women reveals through intimate historical biographies […]
Coming Home to Me: The Story Before the Story by Amal Hdhili
By Amal Hdhili Every story starts somewhere. Not always in a childhood memory or a grand epiphany, but sometimes in the quietest, most fragile moments — the ones we barely notice while living them. And every book begins with something small yet powerful enough to provoke us: a question, a crack in our confidence, a […]
Publish a Book, Lose a Friend by Laura Bonazzoli
By Laura Bonazzoli We shared everything. Over bowls of thick soup in our favorite café, we’d swap recipes and healthcare tips and stories: her father’s drinking, my father’s rage, our siblings who’d died too young, the misogyny we’d had to overcome. And we were both writers. I’d published more— academic and technical works, dozens of […]
What Virginia Woolf Taught Me
In my mid-century memoir, Cold War in a Hot Kitchen, I relate that when my mother went back to university to study for a master’s degree, my father refused to let her talk about it. He was embarrassed, he said. It was pretentious for his wife to pursue a graduate degree, when so many of […]
On Writing The House of Cavanaugh
By Polly Dugan Describing the genesis of my new novel The House of Cavanaugh almost feels like a novel unto itself. For several years, completing it felt like a Sisyphean task, and I often doubted it would ever make its way off my computer and out into the world and into the hands of its […]
How My Book Tour Became Part of My Healing as a Writer
By Heidi Yewman My book tour turned out to be far more than a series of events; it became an unexpected chapter in my own healing. I launched my memoir, Dumb Girl, on August 19th. It almost didn’t happen. Six days before the launch, my brother—whose sexual abuse I wrote about in the book—sent a cease-and-desist […]
Responsibility From Within: When You’re Bosnian, But Not a Survivor
By Amra Pajalic My historical mystery novel Time Kneels Between Mountains is about a young girl surviving under siege and was completed as part of a PhD in Creative Writing. As an author I sit uneasily between insider and outsider: being Bosnian, yet not a genocide survivor. I lived in Bosnia as a child from […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Sarah Monzon interviews librarian Hayley Holt
HEARTS IN CIRCULATION Can a rundown bookmobile be the vehicle that brings two unlikely hearts together? Little Creek’s bookmobile is more of a death trap on wheels than a vehicle of literary delights, and circulation librarian Hayley Holt is afraid it’s going to careen down a mountainside with her in it. Yet she sees it […]
A Weekend on Allyson Island by Susannah B. Lewis: Excerpt
A Weekend on Allyson Island They’ve come for a birthday celebration . . . but they’ll leave celebrating themselves. Moira Allyson is going all out for her 50th birthday. The planning part is easy–in her big, beautiful mansion set on Savannah’s waterfront, perfect parties practically plan themselves. She’ll serve the region’s finest cuisine, offer delicious […]
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