Category: On Writing
How Finding Grace Found me by Fiorella Ruas
“She went out to buy wine. She didn’t mean to disappear.” That single sentence sums up the question that had been preoccupying me for years. Why do so many women reach a point where they wonder how they became strangers in their own lives? The answer, for me, didn’t arrive all at once but in […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Susan Coll
Word Salad Matilda loves logic and order, and now her structured world is falling apart—in a bookstore, of all places. Former economics major Matilda is living where she never thought she would—back in her hometown of Washington D.C.—at a job she never imagined she’d take—at her neighborhood bookstore. She’s coping with the recent loss of […]
The Castle in the Glen, by Rhys Bowen: Excerpt
THE CASTLE IN THE GLEN A ghostwriter plunges into danger as she unravels the dark secrets of a powerful Scottish family in a thrilling novel of romance and mystery by the bestselling author of Mrs. Endicott’s Splendid Adventure. Australian writer Emma Callander has been recruited to complete the final historical mystery in a series by celebrated […]
How a Professor Got Mixed Up in Murder by Cheryl Miller Dellasega
I loved reading and writing from the time when I learned to do both, obviously a sign I was meant to be an author. In seventh grade, my English teacher submitted one of my poems to a contest and it won. When he bowed, presented me with a printed copy of the magazine and announced, […]
Writing was Never that Hard for me Until …
I had several concussions in the span of 6 weeks. Most people apparently stop after the first one. Perhaps I unconsciously wanted to try to set a record, so I had five in 6 weeks. While not relevant to this story, everyone seems to want to know what happened, so I will share. The first […]
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 […]
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