Category: On Writing
The Story Behind the Story by Liz Alterman
You’ll Be Sorry Revenge is a dish best served now. On the eve of her fortieth birthday, Amelia Montgomery flips through a magazine and freezes at the sight of a familiar face—Ethan Blackmore, the man who shattered her heart more than a decade ago. What should’ve been her happily-ever-after took a devastating turn that spiraled […]
THE ARCHITECT OF DECEPTION by Debbie Baldwin: Excerpt
We are delighted to feature an excerpt from THE ARCHITECT OF DECEPTION by Debbie Baldwin. THE ARCHITECT OF DECEPTION A high-society mystery set in the rarefied penthouse air of New York’s old-money elite. It’s a world where perception is more important than the truth and secrets are guarded at any cost. Every move is calculated, and someone is always one step […]
How Dear Missing Friend Came to Be by Susan McGuirk
Like so many of us, I found myself researching family history a few years back. It was strictly for fun, and I did not have a grand plan of how it would all play out. It wasn’t until I came upon an advertisement looking for a long lost relative that things began to change. I […]
How Unburned Came to Be by Sarah Oelschig
Unburned: A Slightly Messy, Mostly Honest Guide to Life After Burnout, by Sarah Oelschig Unburned didn’t begin with a plan. It began with a piano. In the middle of 2022, I was deep in what I now know was burnout, though I didn’t have a name for it yet. As an HR leader, my job was to […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Shalini Abeysekara
From Shalini, the USA TODAY bestselling author who marries magic with murder mysteries, comes a pulse-pounding legal thriller romantasy in a world inspired by Ancient Rome about a young woman seeking vengeance against the man who attempted to kill her four years prior by pushing her off a tower, and engaging in a game of […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Emma R. Schofield
The Nature of Shadow A coming of age story about resilience and power from the genre of literary high fantasy. Anhame, the Hall under the six-point star, is the only place Lia can learn how to use her terrifying powers. But to take the oath, and to pass through the trials, she must conceal the […]
Interview With Rowena Carenen
Rowena (Rowe) Carenen is the author of the collections In the Meantime, First Drafts from the Brewery, and her latest, Body of Work, We’re delighted to feature this interview with her! Tell us about your beginning, where are you from? I was born in Morganton, NC, but have moved all over the South. My home […]
A Sentimental Hoarder and Her Accidental Memoir By Erin O’Malley
Progress doesn’t happen in a straight line—and neither did writing my book. It started with a letter. Back in 2014, a new Lusitano website advertised a launching competition. The grand prize: a week at a Portuguese hacienda called Herdade Pero Viegas, with daily riding lessons from working equitation pro Nuno Jose Avelar. To enter, you […]
Why We Wrote Miss You Already
Miss You Already began with a conversation neither of us expected to have. When Staci received a stage four lung cancer diagnosis, everything changed. We found ourselves trying to hold fear, hope, uncertainty, love, and everyday life all at once. We were not only confronting what might happen in the future. We were grieving even the […]
Whose shoulders am I standing on? by Mary Wine
My life is great. Seriously packed full of opportunities. When I get up in the morning, I see doors, that I have the freedom, the right, to knock on. Getting through those doors is often challenging, making me dig down deep for my bulldog determination but there isn’t a law forbidding me from taking my […]
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