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HOW A DEMENTIA DIAGNOSIS LEAD TO A WRITING COUPLE’S LEGACY PROJECT
Finding Inspiration When Life Hands You Lemons by Marcy McCreary My husband Lew McCreary is a brilliant writer. He is the author of two critically-acclaimed published novels, Mount’s Mistake and The Minus Man, a novel that Anne Rice proclaimed “deliciously satisfying” and “deeply memorable” in the New York Times Book Review. John Banville compared my […]
The Process Of Writing My Memoir by Linda Murphy Marshall
by Linda Murphy Marshall – author of Immersion: A Linguist’s Memoir Several years ago, when I first read Joan Didion’s quote about the writing process, I realized that her thoughts reflected how my writing process unfolds: “I don’t know what I think until I write about it.” I might think I have a clear-cut vision […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Crystal King Interviews Salvador Dalí
From Crystal King, the bestselling author of Feast of Sorrow and The Chef’s Secret, comes a new gothic mythological romance, In the Garden of Monsters, a retelling of the myth of Hades and Persephone, inspired by Salvador Dalí’s 1948 visit to the Sacro Bosco Mannerist statue garden. Julia Lombardi is a mystery even to herself. […]
From Medicine to Writing to Crime: a Natural Progression? By Anne Pettigrew
By Anne Pettigrew You don’t have to search far to find medically trained folk who’ve become writers. For example, Anton Chekhov, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Gordon, Michael Crichton, Khaled Hosseini, Adam Kay and Freida McFadden were qualified doctors. Even Agatha Christie, the world’s most successful crime writer (two billion book sales) was ‘medical’, being […]
An Exorcism: Writing Our Way Into, Through, and Out of Trauma by Bridey Thelen-Heidel
By Bridey Thelen-Heidel When friends ask what writing my memoir was like, I’ve described it as an exorcism. But a “good” exorcism—not a Linda-Blair-head-spinning-barf-spewing one. Hers was arguably THE BEST, but mine was pretty legit. Just ask my husband whose lap I curled in after vomiting up another story from childhood that had been swimming […]
Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived by Karen DeBonis, Excerpt
Editorial Review “Exquisite vulnerability. DeBonis’s grounded perspective on personal growth helps readers see their own limitations with compassion.” Rain Taxi Review Summary: Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived is a memoir about the collision of medical gaslighting and a mother’s people-pleasing, shattering her expectations of motherhood and threatening the survival […]
Writing the Hard Stuff While it’s Happening
(Or why I wrote about how hard it was to have my dad living in my dining room while he was still there.) For as long as I can remember, writing has been a way to process the experiences in my life. It’s also an essential philosophy for all my writing classes; writing is simply […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Carolyn Jack
Character interview by Carolyn Jack THE CHANGING OF KEYS With his father dead, a gifted, fourteen-year-old pianist finds himself sent away from his Caribbean home against his will, to study classical music in the U.S. with a family friend he’ s never met. His first angry, frightened step away from the controlling mother he’ s […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Evette Davis
THE OTHERS SUMMARY: Olivia Shepherd is a political consultant with a secret: She possesses empathic abilities, the power to sense the emotions of those around her. Keen to keep her supernatural gifts hidden, Olivia’s world is upended when Elsa, an ancient time-walker, appears in her kitchen, unveiling a destiny she never knew she had. As […]
On Writing Cave of Secrets
By Lynne Golodner I went to the Highlands of Scotland in the summer of 2022 because I had a romantic notion about living in another country for a length of time so that I grew to know its roads and felt comfortable shopping in its groceries. But I also went to write. I called it […]
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