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The Inspiration behind Back to the Cape by Judy Lannon
I never thought I would write one book, let alone three books and then a sequel, but sometimes life pushes you beyond your own expectations. The pull to take on another book was inspired by book number three, Callahan’s Cottage. Back to the Cape, which was launched on May 25, 2026, is the sequel to […]
Habla Español? No, But I Narrated my Audiobook Anyway
Long before I had a finished draft of my debut A Little Piece of Cuba: A Journey to Become Cubana-Americana, I knew I would narrate the audiobook myself. I am not alone in believing strongly that all memoirists should read their own work and narrate their own audiobooks, but I also know that it comes […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Micki Pierce
The Route 66 Detective in Missouri: The Route 66 Mystery Series One man. Two wheels. A thousand miles of trouble. Mac McCarty has spent his life dodging death. First in the dogfights over Europe, then on the lethal wooden planks of the motorcycle racing circuit. Now, he’s a private investigator with a simple beat: the […]
Recommended Reads July
THE HOUSE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET, Jennifer Sklias-Gahan In The House in the Middle of the Street, Jennifer Sklias-Gahan conjures a haunting modern fairy tale of inheritance, secrets, and the creatures we invite into our lives. When Rebecca and her husband inherit a stately old home, they imagine it as the perfect place to […]
Writing a Travel Memoir: All You Need is Flights
When I was dumped by my boyfriend of two years on my 35th birthday, on a sponsored cruise where I was working as a content creator and he was my plus one, the same day my Facebook was hacked, I had just one thought: You can’t make this stuff up. I knew, then, that I […]
The Story Behind The Very Unremarkable Life of Mrs. Etty Bloom by Talya Jankovits
My first publication was a poem about the post-partum female body, specifically my post-partum body. My second publication was an essay exploring the side effects I faced while undergoing fertility treatments. Writing about motherhood, the female body, and infertility has since become synonymous with much of my work because the hard truth is that for […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: S.E. McPherson
S.E. McPherson Interviews Characters Logan Cardot technically doesn’t exist. According to the Black Lapels—the soldiers who run his country—and their Swordsman church, he should never have been born. In Wanted Boys, the first book in the same-named adult queer dystopian series by S.E. McPherson, Logan is kidnapped by the Black Lapels who imprisoned his parents, […]
Seeking Magic in Wild Spaces for A Treason of Magic
By Melissa Marr Twenty years ago, when I sold my very first novel, Wicked Lovely, I made three decisions—go to Ireland, go to Scotland, and start college funds for my then 12- and 7-year-old kids. I’m sure I did practical things, too, but knowledge and wild landscape were my focus. Since then, I’ve written a […]
Hammer and Nail By Maida Korte
Venturing into the arena of construction was an easy decision for me. My love affair with interior design coincided with my belief that anything can be done if I just work hard enough. This idealism has driven me for most of my life, eventually taking an emotional toll that left me exhausted, nervous, with anxiety […]
Going over to the Dark Side: My Inspiration behind Writing a Psychological Thriller By Carol Snow
Recently, I re-read Rebecca, Daphne DuMaurier’s 1938 masterpiece of psychological suspense. The first time I encountered the novel, in my early teens, it captivated me, as all romantic stories did. Another “romance novel” I read around that time was Madame Bovary. I liked it, but not as much as Rebecca because there was no mystery […]
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