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Turning Personal History into Fiction By Dr Sue Woolfe
People often ask whether my novels are autobiographical. The simple answer is no. The events are imagined. The characters are invented. Yet every novel I’ve written has begun with something emotionally true, a question that refused to leave me until I had explored it through fiction. My latest novel, The Girl Who Climbed on Rooves, […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Dara Levan
I’m Dara Levan, author of Shaken to the Core, and I am excited to introduce two characters who will offer a glimpse of into this uplifting, heartfelt story. Here’s a bit about the book: When life is cut short, what do we do with the time we have left? Joy Stern, a free-spirited photographer, thought she […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Julie Savanth
Interview with Rachel Bickerton Rachel Bickerton is the central character in ASK HIM, the first novel in the Sandbox Trilogy by Julie Savanth. A compelling blend of psychological mystery and speculative fiction, ASK HIM explores every parent’s worst nightmare: the unexplained disappearance of her thirteen-year-old son Matthew Bickerton (Matt). As the search for answers unfolds, […]
Why I Wrote The Deadly Tea by Rachel Dacus
At age twelve I wrote my first novel. After reading too many Nancy Drew books, I felt confident I could write a mystery, and I knew it was my destiny to be a novelist. The Prisoner of the Locked Room – all 100 pages! – featured not one girl detective, but two, twin girls. But […]
Appalachia: Blessed and Cursed by Khristeena Lute
What makes a culture something to be proud of versus something to overcome? I grew up in southeastern Ohio and northeastern Kentucky—the foothills of Appalachia. As I progressed through high school and college as a first-generation college student, I heard the usual advice oft-given to young Appalachians: get rid of the accent. Clip it. Hit […]
10 Facts About Aloha Wanderwell by Laurel Corona
I first stumbled across Aloha Wanderwell in a thin book about interesting women in Vancouver Island history. Leafing through, I stopped on the name “Aloha Wanderwell,” because with a singular name like that, who wouldn’t? I was intrigued by the story of a fearless teenager who set out to conquer the world by car long […]
On Writing Once We Forget by Elise Geither
The day it really hit me was a sunny spring day. My parents had just called me to say “Happy Birthday” and sing to me. As they laughed and Mom sang, she got to the part of the song that goes: Happy Birthday dear (name). And…silence. My mother had forgotten my name. My name is […]
4 Janes: A Novel by Marian Yee: Excerpt
4 Janes Through time, space, and the transcendence of maternal love, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is reimagined in the parallel lives of one soul searching for meaning, connection, and a place to belong. Jane Eyre is a missionary’s wife. A bookseller in Vietnam. A time traveler. A hero in a modern gothic tale. What if Jane’s story […]
Two Writers. Two Debut Novels. One Game-Changing Partnership
THE NOVEL LADIES At similar stages of editing and submission, clocking approximately 100 agent rejections each, authors Brenda Haas and Susan Poole credit their critique partnership as a major reason they eventually published their award-winning debut novels (2025). The pair first met after a bit of online sleuthing. From Lakeside, Ohio, Brenda registered for the […]
No One is You, and that’s Your Superpower
by Debra Borchert Recently, I attended a Zoom meeting, starring Kara Infante, podcaster-extraordinaire and host of Bookish Flights Podcast, in which she said, “No One is you, and that’s your superpower.” I thought about how most of us have experienced anxiety or nervousness at least once, and how those bouts can affect our self-confidence. As […]
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