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Authors Interviewing Characters: Lee Kelly interviews Liz and Britta from With Regrets
Authors Interviewing Characters: Lee Kelly interviews Liz and Britta from With Regrets Seven courses, seven guests, twenty-four hours that will obliterate everything. When recent NYC-transplant Liz Brinkley and her husband are invited to an exclusive soiree by their neighbor, “lifestyle guru” Britta Harris-Che, Liz’s immediate thought is hell no. Britta is insufferable, and Liz is […]
How I Birthed My Memoir
By Liz Kinchen How I Birthed My Memoir I began writing my memoir twenty years ago, but I didn’t know that then. I have always kept journals, even as a young person, so at age 45, when my therapist suggested I intentionally write about my childhood to help me remember some of the murkier details, […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Bethany Turner
She’s a sunny morning-show host. He’s a cynical ex-reporter. They’re destined to hate each other . . . Aren’t they? Brynn Cornell has to be stuck in a nightmare. Just last week, she was riding high as cohost of the popular morning show Sunup. She’s America’s Ray of Sunshine—the girl-next-door beauty who drives up TV ratings […]
Who Am I? Who are You?
Who Am I? Who are You? Often called a dreamer, one who tests as INFP on the Myers Briggs Type Indicator Test (MBTI) is idealistic, highly imaginative, creative, and compassionate, but tends to be disorganized. Yup, that’s me, to a T. Based on the work of Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers, a mother-daughter duo […]
On Writing My Poetic Memoir
Don’t believe what Robert Frost said about “The Road Not Taken.” Fifty years ago, I turned at a fork in the road, having completed my college degree with a major in English and an emphasis on poetry. I chose the path that led me to an academic career in information science and technology, and focusing […]
On Writing Grace, by Delaney Parker
Hello. My name is Delaney Parker, a writer and the author of the sexually charged, emotionally raw erotic fiction, GRACE. My life experiences as a woman, a mother and of having Multiple Sclerosis have given me a view that is unique and refreshing. My writing allows my characters to be themselves with their true feelings. […]
On Writing Joy Rides Through the Tunnel of Grief
On Writing Joy Rides Through the Tunnel of Grief Joy Rides Through the Tunnel of Grief began the day my fiancé confessed—a line of dental floss dangling from his incisor—that he did not want children. Not with me, or anyone, ever. This was news. After twelve years together, a wedding planned and looming, I had […]
Remembering What I Worked Hard to Forget by Joelle Tamraz
Remembering What I Worked Hard to Forget by Joelle Tamraz I was twenty-two when I met him, and our love was going to last forever. I was so sure of it. More sure than I’d been of anything. But there was so much I didn’t know when I set off to India. I couldn’t imagine […]
A 50’s Debut
Several years back, I started having a strong desire to create characters I stayed with in a longer format. Funnily enough, it was at the same time I started perimenopause, although I didn’t know that then. The connection is ironic; just when my brain was becoming more disconnected, chaotic, and less able to remain in […]
Sunya Mara: On Inspiration
Sometimes my own stories are mysteries to me, and the inspiration behind them even more so. Fragments of ideas, of lived experiences, of daydreams, of news articles and childhood storybooks—I’ve drawn on all these and more. I’d like to invite you into how I work, and here I’ll share some of the origins of the […]
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