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A Tale of Two Celtic Queens: Boudica and Cartimandua
By Melanie Karsak Standing proudly in her chariot, her daughters at her side, the statue of a defiant Queen Boudica stands with a spear in her hand as she faces the Parliament buildings along the River Thames. It has been almost two thousand years since the real Boudica rolled her chariot into Roman Londinium and […]
How to Know When to Give Up on a Manuscript
By Ellen Won Steil I’ll start with the bad news first. Writers are masochists. We essentially gamble and bank on spending months, even years on an idea, toiling away until it turns into a semblance of a story. Hoping that the resources and efforts poured into the project will result in a book deal. But […]
Crones and Queens: Inspiration for When the Ocean Flies
Crones and Queens: Inspiration for When the Ocean Flies I’ve written in other places about the ways in which finding my biological parents inspired and influenced the writing of When the Ocean Flies. I’m an adoptee from what’s known as the Baby Scoop Era—post World War II to the early 1970s—during which time millions of […]
Henriette Lazaridis: On Writing LAST DAYS IN PLAKA
As an athlete, I’m familiar with the principle of different kinds of training intensity, and I’m familiar with the concept of being in the zone. I’m pretty sure I’m mostly a slow-twitch muscle fiber kind of person, doing better at endurance efforts than at sprints. B efore 2020, if you had asked me what kind […]
Writing DAUGHTER OF A PROMISE
Some people assume writing a third novel must be easier than writing the first, which is true to some degree only because one knows what to expect: that they are in for a long, winding, doubt-ridden journey. When I began drafting DAUGHTER OF A PROMISE I wasn’t sure what the challenges would be, only confident […]
How To Approach Researching Historical Fiction
How To Approach Researching Historical Fiction “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” When I first embarked on my debut novel THE TOWER, I wasn’t thinking of L. P. Hartley’s famous opening line of The Go-Between. But when I reflected on my first early stages of research and writing, I realised […]
Writing Across Worlds
Writing Across Worlds By Alix Christie When I got the call that summer’s day inviting me to visit McDonald Ranch, I whooped at the wheel of my rental car. I was on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana doing preliminary research for a novel about my ancestor’s brother, a Scottish fur trader for the […]
The Secret Life of A Publishing Company Part II
The Secret Life of A Publishing Company Part II In my first post, I outlined why Jurcell Virginia and I set up Inkspot Publishing www.inkspotpublishing.com, and I promised a blueprint for setting up a publishing company. The steps are not sequential, and if you decide to go ahead, you will find yourself engaged in all […]
The Birth of READ Magazine
The Birth of READ Magazine I wrote my first novel when I was in my late twenties. My humanities graduate program (not an MFA) allowed students to do a creative project in lieu of a thesis. There were collections of poetry and short stories, portfolios of art, and even some musical compositions. I submitted a […]
Books and Brews — Where Beer and Literature Meet!
Books and Brews — where beer and literature meet! A beer hater doing a podcast about beer…well, life is full of interesting twists! That’s what makes it fun! I hate beer—well, most beer. My first taste of beer was at a frat party during my freshman year at college. I couldn’t understand how anyone could […]
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