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WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA: How Authors Find Ideas for Their Novels
by Susie Orman Schnall, author of ANNA BRIGHT IS HIDING SOMETHING In Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert talks about how ideas can be understood as living things. That a stagnant idea in one author’s imagination can “travel” to another author to become fully realized. Such was the case when Gilbert struggled with an idea for a novel […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Mae Bennett
A grumpy, rich recluse meets his match in this steamy Beauty and the Beast retelling—with a Succession twist. Barely Even Friends by Mae Bennett, on sale now from Alcove press, is a fresh spin on a tale as old as time. Bellamy Price has just been offered the job of a lifetime: lead contractor on the restoration of the mysterious and sprawling […]
Getting to the Truth in Fiction
By Gina Carroll Lois Daniel says it best, “All good writing is an excursion into honesty.” I’ve written a lot about truth—how important but tricky telling our truth can be in memoir writing and in the telling of our own stories. In A Story that Matters, I acknowledge that truth in memoir can be a […]
An Author’s Search for Voice
By Nancy Cole Silverman I recently attended a writers’ conference where a number of authors were huddled together discussing another author’s voice on the page. It made me think back on my career in broadcasting and the importance of voice and the story behind it. I spent nearly twenty-five years in broadcast news, most of […]
The Appeal of Retellings for Readers and Writers
It’s no secret that retellings of classic tales are popular and abundant. A prolific reader could spend a year reading nothing but various takes on Pride and Prejudice and still not get through all of the offerings. Readers like seeing new twists applied to their favorite stories. But what’s in it for an author? I […]
The Power Of Place by Kay White Drew
The Power of Place by Kay White Drew It’s a lovely May day in 2013, and I’m sitting on an aging wooden bench in a brick-terraced park behind the Baltimore rowhouse where I lived as a second-year medical student almost forty years earlier. My arms form a W across the top of the bench as […]
May: Reading With Rochelle Weinstein
Hello Readers & Friends, May Reads are here, and while you’ll see some familiar names, I changed my focus a bit to share some new-to-me authors and debut novels. It’s not always easy to break out and get noticed, so I hope you’ll give some of these books a chance. Is there an author you […]
The Paris Widow – Character Interview
The Paris Widow – character interview Kimberly Belle A dream vacation turns deadly when secrets from the past catch up to a married couple in Paris in this new edge-of-your-seat thriller from USA Today bestselling author, Kimberly Belle. When Stella met Adam, she thought she had finally found a nice, normal guy—a welcome change from […]
What Remains of Love – Serendipity
What Remains of Love – Serendipity I’ve discovered that writing is often an act of faith. Faith that the story will come together, faith that that I’ll find the creative energy to push through challenging moments, faith that I will finish the book. But it is sometimes also the result of serendipity, events coming together […]
Inspiration for Writing by J.A. Schneider
Here’s the question I hear most from writer friends: How do you do it? Starting is terrifying – should I outline? Edit as I go? Alas, there’s no one size fits all answer. Everyone has a way that works best for them. I can’t do outlines. I’ve tried to, they never work out. All I […]
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