Category: On Writing
Authors interviewing Characters: Sam Davey interviews the Lady Igraine
About The Chosen Queen Igraine, destined mother of King Arthur, takes centre stage for a powerful, feminist retelling of Camelot. The stories of Camelot do not begin with the sword in the stone—but rather with a twisted chain of murder, magic, and deceit. Igraine is happily married to Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall, even though his […]
Getting Ideas from Real Life, Kiefer Sutherland, and My Overactive Imagination
Getting ideas can be difficult if you’re lacking inspiration, but the good news is, they’re everywhere. The advice to write what you know might seem limiting, but it can be a great launchpad for getting ideas flowing, then the only limit is your imagination. For example, my current novel is about a woman who forms […]
Writing Through Grief: The Journey of Higher Love
In November 2021, I embarked on my fourth novel, Higher Love, during the whirlwind of NaNoWriMo, fueled by the ambition to release it by early 2023. That dream, however, was deferred by life’s relentless challenges—relocation, loss, and profound grief. After a long, difficult road, Higher Love finally met readers on May 12, 2025. The delays […]
Leslie Gray Streeter: On Writing
By Leslie Gray Streeter The story of Dawn Roberts, the writer heart of FAMILY & OTHER CALAMITIES, goes back more than three decades and several major plot changes. She’s been everything from a college student in a garage band finding her voice, the former back-up singer in a 90s R&B group who is getting back […]
May: Reading With Rochelle Weinstein
Hello Readers & Friends, April showers bring May flowers. Was that true in your neck of the words? We didn’t have much rain here in Miami, but the heat is on. Full blast. And as I sit at my writing desk preparing this column, surrounded by my hydrangea and stacks of books, I can’t help […]
The N8 Self: You are more than your Mind, Body, & Emotions, by Jules Kuroda: Excerpt
The N8 Self: You are more than your Mind, Body, & Emotions Loneliness is a situation that we create. The N8 Self invites the reader into holistic connection beyond just the mind, body, and heart and into the aspect of self we don’t talk much about, the human spirit. This powerful part of our human experience […]
Running Took me Far -but Poetry Took me Back to Myself
In September 2024, I was approaching Creswell Crags on foot. I was 45 miles into my first 100-mile ultramarathon, and I felt defeated, alone, and scared. I just wanted to go home. Up until that point, the longest distance I had run was 42 miles. I felt strong until I passed that threshold. But the […]
What Triggers Stories?
By Laura Treacy Bentley Irish poet, Michael Longley, said: “I don’t know where poems come from, but I want to go there.” I, too, want to find this magical place, and I feel the inspiration for stories as well as poetry is all around us. We just need to look for it. My trips to […]
STILL MESMERIZED BY THE TUDORS? MAYBE IT’S THE WOMEN
By Martha Jean Johnson The Tudors are trending, which is saying something for an English family that ruled five hundred years ago. Today, their lives fascinate all kinds of writers—in publishing, theater, film, and TV. And audiences are responding enthusiastically. For example: Philippa Gregory, Alison Weir, and Elizabeth Fremantle have crafted a slew of popular […]
The Marmite on the Bookshelf
(or, how to use a good/bad review) By Stephanie Bretherton Don’t buy my book. Seriously, there’s a 50-50 chance, at least, that you will hate it. Does that sound like the worst kind of marketing? It’s inspired by a hugely successful advertising campaign in the UK many years ago, out of which a popular expression […]
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