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On Writing Unconventional Routes: Around the World from Boardrooms to Backpacks by Gillian Fawcett
As a first-time author, I relished the opportunity to write creatively and explore the ins and outs of the publishing community. I’ve learned a great deal along the way that goes well beyond simply writing the book. My inspiration to write about traveling the world for business came from my husband, though it was my […]
Quincy Kadin: On writing Frankie’s Fishy Feelings
Quincy Kadin is a high school student in Los Angeles, a mental health advocate, and the author of Frankie’s Fishy Feelings, a children’s book. We are delighted to feature her on our site1 Growing up, I had a lot of anxiety. At times, it was so bad that I struggled to leave my house. My […]
Sariah Wilson on Writing A Tribute of Fire
By Sariah Wilson, author of A Tribute of Fire When I say I love Greek mythology, I really, really love it. In seventh grade I competed in the district’s Language Arts Field Day as the Greek mythology specialist (yes, I was that big of a nerd. And we had school jackets and everything). A few […]
On Storytelling and the Tarot: A Personal Journey by Kris Waldherr
by Kris Waldherr One of my favorite literary touchstones is Dante’s Inferno. The story of the poet’s pilgrimage through the underworld has fed some of my creative projects as an illustrator and writer. The Inferno kicks off with one of the most famous sentences ever set on paper. To paraphrase roughly in English: “In the middle of the […]
Creating the Writing Career You Want
By Tiffany Yates Martin Four years ago, in April of 2020, my first book for authors released right as the world shut down in the acute initial panic of a global pandemic. The book, Intuitive Editing, felt like my life’s work, the culmination of my decades working in the publishing industry as an editor: a […]
Writing Historical Fiction with Strong Female Characters: Ensuring that the Past Doesn’t Repeat
By Ann E. Lowry Author, The Blue Trunk A blue trunk sits in my foyer. I see it every day when I take my dog, Loki, for a walk. It belonged to my Great-great Aunt Marit who used it when she immigrated from Norway to the United States. When I first noticed the blue trunk […]
What Hallmark Taught Me by Mary Flynn
By Mary Flynn On the very first day that I “cared enough to send the very best,” I sat down with the Editorial Director of Hallmark Cards in Kansas City. I admit I felt intimidated. As someone who routinely wrote book reviews for The New York Times, Web Schott was the most serious and erudite […]
The Whisper Sister by Jennifer S. Brown: Excerpt
The author of Modern Girls delivers an atmospheric coming-of-age story set in Prohibition-era New York, tracing one immigrant family’s fortunes and a young girl’s journey from the schoolyard to the speakeasy. The streets of New York in 1920 are most certainly not paved with gold, as Minnie Soffer learns when she arrives at Ellis Island. Her father, […]
Aleighsha Parke: On Writing
I first fell in love with storytelling when I was in elementary school. Reading and books were a big part of my childhood, and I always looked forward to creative writing assignments in school. But I never thought about trying to write my own stories until high school. It was a natural progression—I read hundreds […]
Pursuing a Rogue Route to Publishing
By Sandra L. Young In life, I tend to adhere to the expectations of polite modern society. But in my publishing journey, I’ve ended up pursuing a more adventurous, rogue route. For my three-book Divine Vintage series, I dared to defy genre, wrapping romances around historical mysteries and a ghostly sizzle. You may know that […]
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