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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 […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Liz Webb
THE SAVED by Liz Webb She thought his death would destroy her … but his return was far worse. Nancy and Calder have moved from London to an isolated slate island, off the west coast of Scotland. Nancy is focussed on their new beginning, but is increasingly unsettled by the stark island, the mysterious inhabitants […]
Laura Vosika On Writing
I can hardly remember a time I didn’t write. When I was eight I wrote poetry—thankfully there are no surviving examples! At ten, I started a novel about a boy who is kidnapped and such a trial to his kidnappers that they try to give him back. Ten pages in, I came across The Ransom […]
Dance and Despair: Writing What You Know
Dance and Despair: Writing What You Know I lay in the bath, deep in a cloud of lavender-scented bubbles, pondering a question. Where could I set a contemporary romance series? I’d previously written historical novels based around real events. These had required an enormous amount of research to get the details of daily life correct. […]
From PhD Research to Fiction: The Struggles and Opportunities of Compiling and Editing “The Unpicking” for Commercial Publication
From PhD Research to Fiction: The Struggles and Opportunities of Compiling and Editing “The Unpicking” for Commercial Publication Historical novel “The Unpicking” (October 2023, Fly on the Wall Press) is the creative writing element of a PhD thesis which explores the role of women between 1870 and 1920, particularly marginalised women whose lives are often […]
On Writing and Publishing Woman Of Valor
When I started writing Woman of Valor in 2011, I titled it Unorthodox, before I knew there was a book by that name soon to become a TV series. Three years-divorced from my first husband, I was remarried to a man I loved, and I’d abandoned the Orthodox lifestyle I’d committed to in the late […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Allison Ashley
THE ROOMMATE PACT ER nurse Claire and her roommate slash firefighter Graham Scott have come up with a not-so-traditional pact: if they are still single by the time they’re forty, they’ll take the plunge and become friends with benefits. To Claire, the agreement is a safe-enough deal, considering she hasn’t had much luck in love and Graham is […]
First Kisses, Real and Imagined
First Kisses, Real and Imagined by Karin Cecile Davidson In the past few months, my story collection The Geography of First Kisses has allowed a way in for prospective readers to speak of their own first kisses. A First Lady’s first kiss as a young girl under a front porch light. An elderly gentleman’s remembrance of full […]
Creating Heritage Fiction by Linda Ulleseit
Creating Heritage Fiction by Linda Ulleseit As its name implies, Heritage Fiction is about the author’s ancestors. When I was a child, my grandmother told me wonderful stories about my female ancestors. These personal anecdotes were more than just stories, though. They brought history to life. As Alex Haley says, “In every conceivable manner, the […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Lydia Travers
Murder in the Scottish Hills When Maud McIntyre and her lady’s maid Daisy travel into the Scottish Highlands, the last thing they expect to find is a body on the train… Will these keen amateur sleuths stop a murderer in his tracks? Edinburgh, 1911: When Maud McIntyre receives a letter from a maid called Rose, […]
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