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Writing Through The Chaos About The Most Transformational Time of My Life
Writing Through The Chaos About The Most Transformational Time of My Life By Nikol Rogers Time can be a funny thing as a writer, especially if you are writing a memoir. Typically, memoirs are inspiring tales of courage, and overcoming immense obstacles. However, they are never written in the midst of chaos, because the writer […]
Gray Divorce – Fact or Fiction
Gray Divorce – Fact or Fiction Reese Witherspoon, 47, Sofia Vergara, 51, Sophie Gregoire Trudeu, 48, and Christine Baumgartner 49, are all at or nearing the half-century mark. But they also share another life trait: This year, each of them announced their divorce. Gray divorce. Diamond divorce. Silver splitters. Whatever the latest tag, in recent […]
Introducing The Raek Riders Series: A Completed Series Published at Once
Introducing The Raek Riders Series: A Completed Series Published at Once By Melanie K. Moschella I’m a new author, and my debut work, The Raek Riders Series, will be available in March, 2024 as a completed five-book series—as in: fully-formed, ready-to-read, start-to-finish, doneso. Readers won’t have to painstakingly wait for each new release, won’t have […]
Have Fun: Inspiration, Process, and Approach
Have Fun: Inspiration, Process, and Approach In 1653, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle —‘Mad Marge’— wrote that woman’s intelligence was equal to man’s, therefor women learned as easily.(1) She argued that the only difference was that men had more opportunities to educate themselves. In 2nd and 3rd grade, Cindy Myers, Denise Wallenstein and I played […]
Happy Landings: Emilie Loring’s Life, Writing, and Wisdom: Review
Happy Landings: Emilie Loring’s Life, Writing, and Wisdom City Points Press, 2023 Review by Martha Wolfe www.marthawolfe.net How does an author, one whose thirty novels sold over five-million copies and were translated into nine languages, whose name appeared on best-seller lists alongside Pearl S. Buck, Sinclair Lewis, Faith Baldwin, and Agatha Christie, one to whom […]
Writing The Wrong Calamity
The Wrong Calamity began twelve years ago, when I’d just moved to New York after four decades in Boston. I was applying for a play-writing workshop, and I had to write on the topic “Tell Us About Yourself” in 100 words max. I had plenty of material. Back when I was young and insecure, I’d […]
Heather Hach interviews Kat Lamb of THE TROUBLE WITH DROWNING
Heather Hach is a screenwriter (FREAKY FRIDAY, WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING) and Tony-nominated Broadway librettist (LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL) who has always had her nose in a book. She co-wrote the YA novel FREAKY MONDAY with Mary Rodger, but THE TROUBLE WITH DROWNING is her adult novel debut. Heather Hach interviews Kat Lamb […]
Excerpt from I’m Speaking: Every Woman’s Guide to Finding Your Voice and Using It Fearlessly
I’m Speaking: Every Woman’s Guide to Finding Your Voice and Using It Fearlessly I’m Speaking is every woman’s guide to creating a clear, confident voice that is authentically hers and then using it fearlessly. Full of effective, efficient, brain-science-based ways to make positive changes to your voice, in your head and coming out of your […]
Places We Left Behind: a memoir-in-miniature: Excerpt
Places We Left Behind: a memoir-in-miniature “For anyone who has ever loved deeply and been willing to take risks for the sake of love.” Rachel Barenbaum author of Atomic Anna When American-born Jennifer falls in love with French-born Philippe during the First Intifada in Israel, she understands their relationship isn’t perfect. Both 23, both Jewish, they […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Holly Payne-Strange
Welcome to Strange and Twisted Things. In a quiet village nestled deep within the heart of Italy, an elderly woman finds herself abandoned by her family, the depth of her loneliness almost overwhelming. Seeking solace in an elegant yet decaying house, Greta clings onto the memories of her estranged husband, whose absence haunts her every […]
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