Category: On Writing
The Process of Writing A Dream Life by Wendy Swift
Over twenty years ago, I had a conversation with a friend who wrote children’s books reviews for Publisher’s Weekly. I told her I would like to write a memoir. She quickly said, no one is interested in reading a memoir unless it is about a celebrity. That may have been true then, or maybe that […]
October Recommended Reads
Engineering a Love Story, Kathleen Reidy At the height of the boom, ambition is easy —love is the real gamble It’s the year 2000—dot-coms, Bush v. Gore, and sky-high San Francisco rents. But while the country swoons with irrational exuberance, Chelsea Lefevre’s life is deflating faster than a tech bubble. She’d had everything she thought she […]
Writing the Story I Once Tried to Survive By Nikki Laycy
By Nikki Laycy, author of Out of the Shadows – From Despair to Self-Acceptance and Love There is something very different about living through painful experiences and sitting down years later to write about them. When I was living through some of the darkest periods of my life, I wasn’t thinking about what they meant […]
Safe by Claudia Hinz
I began writing SAFEKEEPING before the pandemic. The first draft of the novel had a different title. There were different characters. A different plot. The novel worked on many levels. It was polished enough to go out on submission to publishers, and the response was largely enthusiastic. But I knew something was missing. Someone was […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Chital Mehta
Have You Seen Romit? When twenty-five-year-old Romit, Usha’s adopted son, doesn’t respond to her calls, she has a sinking feeling in her stomach. Her husband, Om, who has never accepted their adopted son, tries to convince her to move on. With time, though, it’s clear Usha is right: Romit has gone missing. When the police […]
The Creation of Paper Girls Burn: A Borderline Personality Disorder Memoir by Pippa Scott
“The author pulls no punches in revealing things that she’s done….Her frankness is refreshing….An indelible, sharply detailed life story that’s earnest and engrossing.Our Verdict: GET IT.” -Kirkus Reviews I attempted to write Paper Girls Burn a handful of times throughout the last decade. It would go the same way each time. I would write maybe […]
How A Tiny Set of Overlooked Words Can Illuminate God by Varina Buntin Willse
Varina Buntin Willse is an award-winning author of spiritual and narrative nonfiction with degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Oxford University. Her latest book, Beneath and Between: And Other Overlooked Words that Illuminate God, gives readers a fresh vocabulary to experience an ineffable God. Varina is the creative force behind […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Jessica Siskin
Part satire, part emotional character study, LOOKS PERFECT explores identity, performative culture, and what authenticity means in a hyper-visible world offering a timely look at internet fame and the gap between how we’re seen and who we are. Siskin brings a uniquely informed perspective: a former fashion executive and founder of the viral Instagram brand Misterkrisp, she […]
Writing Into the Shadows: How I Wrote the Hard Stuff by Suzanne Sherman
The first book I wrote in was turquoise, with a tiny metal key to lock and unlock it, a key which, at nine years old, I promptly lost. What I found, however, was a best friend for life. For the next five and a half decades, and to this day, I visit with my best […]
On Writing My Three Fathers, A Memoir: A Window That Turned Out To Be a Door
My Three Fathers, in some ways started as a love letter to my father Juan—the opening section is implicitly addressed to him. And it’s a letter of reckoning: this is what you missed and yet helped create by your absence. But also, here, I have made this for you. By the time I met my […]
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