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The Real Life Making of a Fictional Psychologist
By Jenny Milchman Content warning: mention of violence against animals I always wanted to be a writer. I was that kid with her nose in a book, sneaking away at sleepovers to pore over the new-to-me volumes on my friends’ shelves, treasure chests each and every one. When I was in college and studying creative […]
Unlocking Family Secrets by Francine Falk-Allen
I was sitting across from my aunt Dorothy in a church recreation room, after yet another memorial service for one of my mother’s many brothers in 2001. Mom was born in 1908, had died in 1993, the eldest of twelve children (even more, I later learned), and I thought I’d heard all the stories there […]
Writing Version 2.0
Writing Version 2.0 A writer’s life, and career, is ever changing. Written and rewritten with every project we take on, each blank page we sit down to. And there’s another way in which we writers are always getting tossed and turned around and shaken about, which comes down to the tumultuousness of this industry. Rare […]
My Writing Process by Susan Plunket
Until this summer what I knew about writing I learned mostly from a lifetime of reading – Jane Austen, Stefan Zweig, Virginia Woolf, others. I love stories. My process was to sit most mornings before work and write, without censoring, until I had a first draft. Then, using intuition, hard thinking, and listening for the […]
THE DEMON by Victory Witherkeigh, Excerpt
Face your inner demons with Victory Witherkeigh’s thrilling YA about a demon who possesses a teen girl and faces her toughest challenge yet: freshman year of college. The Demon (Oct 1, 2024) follows a girl possessed by a demon who is abandoned by her master and punished with a mortal life. Continuing the threads of […]
Write Local by Sarah Angleton
Write Local About twenty years ago, I stepped into an intimidating academic building that smelled of old books and institutional knowledge to receive some great well-worn advice I should have taken much sooner than I did. At the time, I was looking to change directions from my as yet unused undergraduate degree in zoology toward […]
On Writing Caught in a RIPtide by Judy Condie
By Judy Condie Last year I lost my dog, my dear mum and my husband all in the space of six months. I felt a real need to get away and learn to be alone, reset my life and come back stronger, with a new purpose. Australia was the obvious place to start as my […]
She May Be Lying Down but She May Be Very Happy by Jody Gelb: Excerpt
She May Be Lying Down but She May Be Very Happy “Jody Gelb has written a book so rare and elegant and beautiful that I don’t even know how to categorize it: Essay? Poetry? Memoir? I think I might just call it a ‘monument.’ What a stunning work of art, of truth, and of love.” […]
On Writing The Guardians of Earth by Oriane Livingston
by Oriane Livingston The Guardians of Earth, Oona and the Luminous Beings is a middle grade fantasy novel celebrating the beauty of the natural world. It is a love letter to Earth filled with epic adventures beyond imagination, bringing children and teenagers closer to the magic of Nature. It tells the story of Oona, an […]
Inspiration from a Million Places, Moments, and People
By Karen Hawkins The question readers ask the most often is “Where do you get your book ideas?” That’s a simple question with a complicated, sort of hard-to-explain answer. But here I go. To be honest, I get my inspiration from a variety of places, moments, and people. You see, it just takes a little, […]
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