Category: On Writing
Mythology and Romantasy: Why Women Devour it—Leading into a Billion-Dollar Industry
By Rachel Van Dyken Romance has always been a booming industry, add in some mythology and you have another genre that’s completely taking the world by storm—romantasy. What is romantasy? If you’ve been living under a rock over the last two years, stayed away from social media, and for whatever reason haven’t been to a […]
My Writing Journey, by Robyn Dabney
by Robyn Dabney When people learn I’m a writer, they often ask, “Why do you write?” or “What started all of this?” The answers to those questions trace the story of my writing life along a path that stretches from struggling to read in second grade, to finding my footing in a high school journalism […]
Reading With Rochelle Weinstein: November
Hello Readers & Friends, I know. I know. The November wrap-up means December’s here, and you’re probably shaking your head like: where did 2025 go? I hope November meant time spent with family, friends, and loved ones, gratitude, and reading great books. My November reading count fell short as life and work took over (more […]
Interview with Brionni Nwosu
Interview with Brionni Nwosu author of THE WONDROUS LIFE AND LOVES OF NELLA CARTER Can you tell us a little bit about your writing journey? I started trying to write seriously in 2018. At the time, I was working as a graduate professor and advisor, and during fall break, I finally had a week off. […]
Interview with T. Kingfisher, author of SNAKE EATER
With a remote desert setting, a house brimming with secrets, a wonderfully eclectic cast of characters including desert spirits and gods, SNAKE-EATER has all of the rich, dark fantasy elements as well as humor and heart that make Kingfisher’s novels unforgettable and unputdownable. And if you’re new to Kingfisher, this one is for fans of The Wood-Wife by […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Tracy Dobmeier & Wendy Katzman
TEN THOUSAND LIGHT YEARS FROM OKAY A widowed and grieving young novelist believes her words create realities―both tragic and charmed―in a hopeful and surprising novel about family, newfound love, and moving on. Four years after her husband Sam’s tragic death mirrored a fatal plotline in her debut novel, Thea Packer hasn’t written another word, afraid […]
On Writing Solitary Walker: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft by N.J. Mastro
Writing a novel had been on my mind since high school, and that was a long time ago. So when I retired in 2017, I set out to write the kind of book I like to read: biographical novels about audacious women from the past. The question was, who would be my subject? Biographical novels, […]
What-If? By Gabrielle Meyer
By Gabrielle Meyer Most books start from a spark of imagination. A compelling “what-if” question. That was how my Timeless Series was born. I was chatting with my sister in my parents’ driveway, and we were discussing time travel fiction. In most time travel books, a character accidentally falls through a portal of time and […]
Writer to Doctor and Back Again
By Dr. Tali Lando Before I was a doctor, I was a writer. From the time I was a young child, I dreamed of writing a book. I poured my thoughts into daily, angsty poems, stapling messy loose-leaf pages together under grand titles like Tali’s Book of Thoughts scrawled across the top. By my late […]
And Still
By Ruthie Marlenée When the prequel to And Still Her Voice, failed to launch in 2020, because of Covid, I wanted to give up writing. I wanted to curl up and cry. “I’ll give you something to cry about,” I could hear Mom say. So, I dried my tears, laced up my bootstraps and tried […]
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