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Interview with J.T. Ellison, Author of YOU KNOW WHY
On August 25, 2026, bestselling author J.T. Ellison is set to release her highly anticipated and most haunting domestic thriller yet, YOU KNOW WHY (Thomas & Mercer). Building on the success of Last Seen and A Very Bad Thing, Ellison returns with a meticulously crafted domestic thriller that is impossible to put down. It’s a masterclass in suspense that explores the chilling […]
Carrying the Stories Home: Becoming a First-Time Author By Sierra Biidaaban Nadeau, Anishinaabe storyteller
There is a strange loneliness that comes with writing a first book. Before there are readers, before there are reviews, before anyone knows the story exists, it belongs only to the writer. It lives in the quiet hours before sunrise, in the glow of a computer screen long after midnight, and in the constant tug-of-war […]
On Writing Free Range Girl by Meghan Cox Gurdon
When I tell people that I’ve written a memoir about moving to rural Maine at the age of twelve to live with my father on a homestead that he was building with his own hands, I’m immediately asked: But what about your mother? At first the question surprised me, because as a child it didn’t […]
The Legacy, with Medusa by Sharon Linnéa
If only Bob was here. I looked at the brown box sitting on the kitchen table, on a yellow and blue tablecloth decked with sunflowers. If only he could see this. I used a steak knife to slice the packing tape. Inside sat a stack of beautiful books, topped by a medallion of a Medusa […]
My Road Curved at Age 71 by Marianne Lonsdale
My debut novel, When The Road Curves, was published in June 2026, the same month as my 71st birthday. I’d somewhat given up on having a book published, so having a launch party felt dreamy and on track with being as big a day for me as my wedding. When The Road Curves follows thirty-six-year-old […]
The Mystery Writer Who Can’t Murder by Claudia Hagadus Long
As many of my long-term readers know, I can write a sex scene with wild abandon. I can craft a fight scene with brio. I can plot with the intricacy of an aerospace engineer, and explore family dynamics like a psychologist on crack. But I have a really hard time killing anyone. For a normal […]
The Dream Purse: A Psychoanalytic Journey of Becoming through Psilocybin, Art, and Movement by Natalie R. Cohen, PsyD
I am a psychologist and psychoanalyst who also identifies as kind, tired, and a mover. Creating art has always been a vehicle for my inner life, offering relief from conflict and a nonverbal invitation to explore what wants to emerge. During my psychoanalytic training, I engaged in multiple psychedelic journeys, and each one taught me […]
It’s Not the Witches. It’s Us By Kimberly Belle
A couple Halloweens ago, Vanessa Lillie, Cate Holahan and I stood in a graveyard in Salem, Massachusetts, debating how exactly four young, rich widows in heels and pencil skirts could break into an ancient crypt without getting caught. This was after we’d bumped into Sasquatch strolling down the street with a plastic pumpkin bucket and […]
How ILLEGITIMATE Took Seven Revisions and Ten Years to get Published by Maddie Lock
I didn’t start out to write a memoir. It was in a small café in Bavaria that my German aunt lifted a glass of wine to her lips and casually stated that she had found her father; that our grandfather, who we thought was her father was not. She was, in fact, a child created […]
Let Your Main Character Change You—It’s a Relationship, After All by Lee Upton
Recently I asked another novelist how she characterizes her relationship with her main character. Without hesitation she said, “It’s a passionate love affair.” That sounds exciting—and fabulous. Our connection with a main character might be volatile, obsessive, teeming with unexpected swerves, even fraught with the possibility of abandonment if the novel fails. To write a […]
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