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Judy Foreman: On Writing The Scallop Plot
I’ve been writing my whole life — my high school newspaper, my college paper, many, many wonderful years as the Boston Globe health columnist and science writer, and most recently, as a novice writer of thrillers. And I can tell you, writing fiction, mysteries no less, after all these years of telling the truth, of […]
From Journaling to a Novel by Lorelei Brush
The Boy With the Butterfly Mind started out with journaling in the late 1990’s. I was married to a man with ADHD, raising a child with ADHD, and working a demanding job in international development. My life felt like chaos much of the time. Traveling internationally was actually the part of life that kept me […]
On Writing Betting the Farm – How a Maverick Entrepreneur and a Band of Scientists Changed Agriculture Forever
“Betting the Farm – How a Maverick Entrepreneur and a Band of Scientists Changed Agriculture Forever” chronicles the story of Agrigenetics, a company that pioneered technology to create better plants using gene technologies. It was the early 1980s. The authors Janice Kimpel and Adrienne Clarke are scientists and were both involved in the company, Adrienne […]
How Finding Grace Found me by Fiorella Ruas
“She went out to buy wine. She didn’t mean to disappear.” That single sentence sums up the question that had been preoccupying me for years. Why do so many women reach a point where they wonder how they became strangers in their own lives? The answer, for me, didn’t arrive all at once but in […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Susan Coll
Word Salad Matilda loves logic and order, and now her structured world is falling apart—in a bookstore, of all places. Former economics major Matilda is living where she never thought she would—back in her hometown of Washington D.C.—at a job she never imagined she’d take—at her neighborhood bookstore. She’s coping with the recent loss of […]
The Castle in the Glen, by Rhys Bowen: Excerpt
THE CASTLE IN THE GLEN A ghostwriter plunges into danger as she unravels the dark secrets of a powerful Scottish family in a thrilling novel of romance and mystery by the bestselling author of Mrs. Endicott’s Splendid Adventure. Australian writer Emma Callander has been recruited to complete the final historical mystery in a series by celebrated […]
How a Professor Got Mixed Up in Murder by Cheryl Miller Dellasega
I loved reading and writing from the time when I learned to do both, obviously a sign I was meant to be an author. In seventh grade, my English teacher submitted one of my poems to a contest and it won. When he bowed, presented me with a printed copy of the magazine and announced, […]
Jen Craven: Authors Interviewing Characters
SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW For readers of domestic suspense, book club fiction, and character-driven dramas like Big Little Lies, The Whispers, and Little Fires Everywhere, Something You Should Know (Book 1 of the After Ever series) follows four lifelong friends inspired by beloved fairy tale heroines (Belle, Cinderella, Jasmine, and Aurora) as they navigate marriage, motherhood, ambition, family secrets, and […]
Writing was Never that Hard for me Until …
I had several concussions in the span of 6 weeks. Most people apparently stop after the first one. Perhaps I unconsciously wanted to try to set a record, so I had five in 6 weeks. While not relevant to this story, everyone seems to want to know what happened, so I will share. The first […]
The Story Behind the Story by Liz Alterman
You’ll Be Sorry Revenge is a dish best served now. On the eve of her fortieth birthday, Amelia Montgomery flips through a magazine and freezes at the sight of a familiar face—Ethan Blackmore, the man who shattered her heart more than a decade ago. What should’ve been her happily-ever-after took a devastating turn that spiraled […]
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