Category: On Writing
Zelly Ruskin: How I Became An Author
Zelly Ruskin: How I Became An Author I worked in adoption in the 80s, became a mother in the 90s and had fertility issues. In writing my book, Not Yours to Keep, I drew from each of these emotional and personal experiences, but they aren’t how my author story started. It begins at the most […]
MORAL TREATMENT by Stephanie Carpenter: Excerpt
MORAL TREATMENT a novel By Stephanie Carpenter In 1889, seventeen-year-old Amy Underwood is committed to a psychiatric hospital in northern Michigan. Feeling abandoned by her loved ones, she finds solace in her friendship with a spirited fellow patient, Letitia. Yet as Amy becomes more comfortable at the hospital, she faces a troubling reality: not everyone […]
Animal Antics and Inspiration by Fern Michaels
By Fern Michaels I’ve been an animal lover all my life, but dogs have been the main focus. It didn’t matter if they were mutts, or pure bred. If they needed a home, I let them move in. At one point I had six at the same time, which is probably why they play such […]
The Real Life Making of a Fictional Psychologist
By Jenny Milchman Content warning: mention of violence against animals I always wanted to be a writer. I was that kid with her nose in a book, sneaking away at sleepovers to pore over the new-to-me volumes on my friends’ shelves, treasure chests each and every one. When I was in college and studying creative […]
Unlocking Family Secrets by Francine Falk-Allen
I was sitting across from my aunt Dorothy in a church recreation room, after yet another memorial service for one of my mother’s many brothers in 2001. Mom was born in 1908, had died in 1993, the eldest of twelve children (even more, I later learned), and I thought I’d heard all the stories there […]
Writing Version 2.0
Writing Version 2.0 A writer’s life, and career, is ever changing. Written and rewritten with every project we take on, each blank page we sit down to. And there’s another way in which we writers are always getting tossed and turned around and shaken about, which comes down to the tumultuousness of this industry. Rare […]
My Writing Process by Susan Plunket
Until this summer what I knew about writing I learned mostly from a lifetime of reading – Jane Austen, Stefan Zweig, Virginia Woolf, others. I love stories. My process was to sit most mornings before work and write, without censoring, until I had a first draft. Then, using intuition, hard thinking, and listening for the […]
Kimberly Brock: Authors Interviewing Characters
THE FABLED EARTH Sometimes the truth is found in a folktale. 1932 Cumberland Island off the coast of Southern Georgia is a strange place to encounter the opulence of the Gilded Age, but the last vestiges of the famed philanthropic Carnegie family still take up brief seasonal residence in their grand mansions there. This year’s […]
THE DEMON by Victory Witherkeigh, Excerpt
Face your inner demons with Victory Witherkeigh’s thrilling YA about a demon who possesses a teen girl and faces her toughest challenge yet: freshman year of college. The Demon (Oct 1, 2024) follows a girl possessed by a demon who is abandoned by her master and punished with a mortal life. Continuing the threads of […]
Lucille Guarino: Writing Lunch Tales: Suellen
I am excited to share the news of my new novel, Lunch Tales: Suellen. The way this story came about is quite different from my previous novel, Elizabeth’s Mountain, which was sparked by a dream. Lunch Tales: Suellen is drawn from my personal experience in working at a major New Jersey law firm for several years where I met a lot of […]
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