Category: On Writing
How a Scientist Wrote a Book about Wisdom
By Laura Gabayan In 2013, I noticed that my body started to develop random symptoms. I was a left-brain physician scientist committed to Western medicine and published extensively in academic journals. I believed in science and academia and felt that science explained everything. I thought that if I couldn’t see it, measure it, or could […]
HOW MY CHILDHOOD OBSESSION BECAME A MEMOIR
Collateral Stardust: Chasing Warren Beatty and Other Foolish Things At fourteen, I was lonely and depressed and I needed something to fill the void. I decided that “something” was Warren Beatty. Not as a short-term crush but as a man I would love and have in my life forever. I had a plan. I’d grow […]
It Was All French to Me
By Jane Harrington My new book, Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance, was born of a desire to bring to readers the lives and works of 17th-century salon writers who created the first fairy tale craze and then were pretty much left out of the history of the genre. I had first learned of these […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Beth Miller
THE FRIENDSHIP LIST Wiping away her tears, Kay looks at her old photos, of friends who have come and gone through life’s big moments. But then there’s Rose, her one constant through everything. Now Rose is missing, does the key to finding her lie in their past? It should have been the happiest day of Kay’s life. […]
Small Press Pages August 2025
By Christina Consolino Midway through August and many students are heading back to school. Which means some folks will have more time to read and others less. As a teacher myself, my time will decrease, but that doesn’t mean I won’t try my hardest to squeeze in as much reading as I can. Regardless of […]
My Writing Journey
By Karen King I grew up in a family of readers. My parents were avid readers and books were a plenty in our house so it was no wonder that I, and my siblings, became readers too. We were lucky enough to have a well-stocked public library around the corner from the street we lived […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Carla Malden
PLAYBACK 34-year-old Mari Caldwell is fiercely disappointed in herself. She’s done the one thing she always promised herself she would never do: raise her young daughter in a broken home, just as she had been raised. Professionally, making a living by photographing real estate has subsumed her dream of becoming a rock ‘n’ roll photographer. […]
Dani Alpert: On Writing
by Dani Alpert My debut memoir, The Girlfriend Mom, was published at the height of the pandemic. I had no interest in writing another book after that experience. For a few fleeting moments, I did think about writing a follow-up, The Ex-Girlfriend Mom, because so much had happened since the original. But I was over […]
When a Character Shows up in the Flesh
By Cheryl Grey Bostrom author of What the River Keeps — I arrived home to a friend rising from a chair in my home office. She laid an early reader’s copy of my newest novel What the River Keeps on my desk and squared her heavy frame to mine. “I have a bone to pick […]
Confessions of a Wannabe Harvey Girl – Juliette Fay
I first learned about Harvey Girls while doing research for one of my previous novels, City of Flickering Light. The story follows three friends who catch a train to Hollywood so they can try their luck as actors. It was a long trip, so I knew they had to eat. How did railroad passengers get […]
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