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Underestimated: The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls by Chelsey Goodan, EXCERPT
Underestimated: The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls by Chelsey Goodan *National Bestseller* “If you have a teenage girl in your life, you need to read this.” —Oprah Daily In the vein of Reviving Ophelia and Untangled comes a fresh, unexpected, and empowering guide to better understand teenage girls, revealing how their insights can create heartfelt connections and impactful change. […]
On Writing Lost in Ibiza
On Writing Lost in Ibiza I have always had a complex relationship with writing. Philip Roth put it very succinctly. “Writing isn’t hard work, it’s a nightmare.” Lost in Ibiza is my 3rd novel and it took me many years to complete. My husband, a television producer, strongly advised me not to discuss the inordinate […]
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 […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Van Hoang
About THE MONSTROUS MISSES MAI A determined young woman in 1950s Los Angeles walks a darker city than she ever imagined in a spellbinding novel about the power to make dreams come true―whatever the sacrifice. Los Angeles brims with opportunity in 1959―though not for aspiring fashion designer Cordelia Mai Yin, the first-generation child of Vietnamese […]
Moo of Writing: a Guide for Creative Writers
Moo of Writing: a Guide for Creative Writers By Nan Lundeen Today we need a lightness of being. We need Wordsworth’s daffodils and the wisdom of Mary Oliver’s dog Percy whose bottom line on how to live her life after she asks his advice is “trust.” When three a.m. thoughts rummage around in my mind […]
Anna and Jacqui Burns: A Unique Dynamic
Anna and Jacqui Burns: A Unique Dynamic We began writing together in lockdown as, living over two hundred miles apart, it was a good way of keeping in touch and sharing something we both enjoyed. Neither of us could have imagined that we would continue to write novels together. There are other writing duos, such […]
On Writing Rhythm and Clues
Texas is a place of extreme weather. Long, months-long dry spells are broken by torrential thunderstorms and heavy flooding. These terrifying yet exhilarating, life-threatening yet life-saving storms were a big inspiration behind Rhythm and Clues (The rhythm is gonna get you March 26, 2024 from St Martin’s Press). As a recovering ex-Texan myself, one of […]
Hummingbird: Messages from My Ancestors, a Memoir with Reflection and Writing Prompts
Hummingbird: Messages from My Ancestors, a Memoir with Reflection and Writing Prompts by Diana Raab My latest and 14th book, Hummingbird: Messages from My Ancestors, was written during the Covid-19 pandemic. It poured out of me over a short period of time. The book was inspired by a daily hummingbird visit outside my writing studio […]
How I ‘Found’ Carolyn Wells, the Once Famous, Now Forgotten Mystery Author by Rebecca Rego Barry
How I ‘Found’ Carolyn Wells, the Once Famous, Now Forgotten Mystery Author by Rebecca Rego Barry I first learned of Carolyn Wells in the spring of 2011. For most of my life, I’ve been drawn to books, especially old books. So it’s not particularly surprising that I ended up dabbling in rare and antiquarian books, […]
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 […]
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