Category: On Writing
Always and Forever by Lorraine Zago Rosenthal: Excerpt
“An elegant, slow-burning portrait of quiet heartbreak and enduring love.” –Kirkus Reviews Summary: Three decades ago, a tragedy ignited a chain of events that devastated two New York City families and still haunts them today. Even their youngest members, Suzanne Starek and Jay Darnell, haven’t been left unscathed. Suzanne is at the end of her […]
How Writing one Letter Turned into a Book
By Carol Van Den Hende Dear Women Writers, If you could pen a letter to anyone, living or dead, real or imaginary, who would you write to? Would you write about something left unsaid? That question sparked my fourth book, my collection of personal letters and true stories called Dear Orchid. Funny enough, my earliest […]
Dear Bobby: On Writing Love letters to my Late Husband
Dear Bobby: On writing love letters to my late husband by Diana Papalia Zappa On December 8, 2018, my beloved husband Bob Zappa passed away from hereditary amyloidosis. We had met in 1986 and although there was an instant and intense connection, we weren’t able to be together until 2013. We married in 2015. He […]
On Writing The Ripple Eclipse: Turning the Tide of Inherited Trauma
By Audrey Hyams Romoff Living a turbulent life and writing about it are two very different things. It means revealing family secrets and piercing the veil of a seemingly idyllic life. Yet, that’s what I decided to do, I ignored the warnings from seasoned writers about the psychological fallout of diving into the trauma, and […]
Ending one Successful Series to Create Another
By Jeannée Sacken In my first series, photojournalist Annie Hawkins was frequently on assignment in Afghanistan and finding ways to keep the passion burning with her lover Finn Cerelli. After finishing three books, the characters were living in my head. They’d talk endlessly to me, with Cerelli often choosing to sit on the bench in […]
Breathing New Life into My Book Publishing Journey
By Karin K. Jensen A Timely Chance to Humanize the Immigrant Experience Throughout my childhood, my mother told stories of growing up in her father’s Detroit laundry business during the infancy of the auto industry, and later in a Cantonese village on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War. She also spoke of what it was […]
Hunting for Words by Deborah Lee Luskin
By Deborah Lee Luskin Walking into the woods in the dark before dawn carrying a rifle was the hardest thing I’d done since I turned sixty. Writing about it was harder. I became a deer hunter because I wanted to be able to find my way through the northern forest without following a marked trail. […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Susan Coventry
TILL TAUGHT BY PAIN Inspired by the groundbreaking discoveries of ether and chloroform anesthesia, William Stewart Halsted pursues a surgical career with relentless ambition, daring to perform operations deemed impossible by his peers. His reputation skyrockets with each bold success— until his quest for an effective local anesthetic leads him to inject himself with cocaine. […]
A Judge’s Tale: A Trailblazer Fights for Her Place on the Bench by Janet Kintner, EXCERPT
A Judge’s Tale: A Trailblazer Fights for Her Place on the Bench by Janet Kintner For fans of The Good Wife and Suits, the true story of a passionately principled young female judge in the man’s world of the ’60s and ’70s who is forced to defend her judgeship against two male challengers in a grueling election—while pregnant […]
My Truth in Fiction by Barbara Conrey
It wasn’t until I started writing that I discovered how much of my history and emotions were within the pages of the books I wrote. Which made me wonder how much truth is disguised as fiction in other novels. In Nowhere Near Goodbye, my debut, my anger at medical science, and, yes, God, was clearly […]
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