Category: On Writing
My Life’s Work: Words Make a Way Through Fire by Cyra Sweet Dumitru
Words Make a Way Through Fire is a memoir told through poetry and prose that chronicles my decades-long journey of transforming traumatic memory into a creative life. While the book includes my reckoning, which sometimes is rather raw, it is most about the healing influences of writing, swimming as meditation, and the intuited guidance of […]
Writing My Second Memoir
By Hendrika de Vries A Journey into the Sequel When I sat down to begin the writing of my second memoir, it felt as if I were returning to a place at once familiar and uncharted. The first memoir was born of urgency, an obligation to share my story, my experience of surviving oppression, hatred […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Julie Swanson interviews Mickey
In North of Tomboy, a semi-autobiographical novel set on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula in 1973, shy fourth-grader Jess Jezowski turns the tables on her mom when she’s given yet another girly baby doll for Christmas. This time, instead of ignoring or destroying it, she transforms it into the boy she’s always wanted to be—a brave, funny […]
The Shattered King, by Charlie N. Holmberg: Excerpt
The Shattered King A captive healer and a mysterious prince are drawn to each other in the midst of war and magic in a beguiling dark fantasy by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg. The kingdom of Cansere is on the brink of war. Young men are conscripted from their homes, and a royal decree […]
L.S. Stratton: Authors Interviewing Characters
IN DEADLY COMPANY An incisive workplace satire and twisty murder mystery featuring a young executive assistant who realizes the peril in being diligently attentive to her boss’s whims. As the assistant of the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, Nicole Underwood has plenty of tasks on her to-do list—one of which is the blowout birthday […]
How Stories Turned a Fiction Writer Into a Memoirist
During college, when my freshman year rhetoric teacher pulled me aside after class and asked if I’d ever considered a career in writing, my heart bloomed. I’d wanted to be an author since I was in the first grade and created a construction paper book complete with illustrations. Still, I didn’t know if I was […]
Inspiration Behind The Book By Khadijah VanBrakle
By Khadijah VanBrakle My Perfect Family is a story born out of love.As both an author and an avid reader, I’m drawn to books that include fraught mother/daughter relationships. My love of the Gilmore Girls inspired me to write my sophomore novel that follows a fractured, Black American Muslim family. I strongly believe that every […]
How a Therapy Horse Who Survived a Hurricane Inspired my New Children’s Book Series
The inspiration for the first book in my Bella and Bird the Emotion Explorers series, Bella and Bird Explore Anger, came in the wake of Hurricane Ian; a Category 5 storm that devastated our island in Southwest Florida. Just three weeks earlier, I adopted my horse, Bella, from Southern California as my equine partner in […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: SUSIE TATE
THE OUTLIER by Susie Tate Vicky is an outlier. An outlier in society, an outlier in the business world; she’s even an outlier in her own family. She knows that people find her weird and annoying, and she’s resigned to her loneliness until she sees him. Having never been attracted to any man before, her new […]
Imposter or Outsider?
By Mary Camarillo Feeling like you don’t “fit in” to certain spaces, that any personal success is undeserved because it’s unearned, and to always be certain you’ll eventually be called out as a fraud are signs of Imposter Syndrome. I’ve claimed this particular malady. When my family moved to Southern California from North Carolina in […]
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