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From Hospital Receptionist to Gangland Crime Writer
My life has been hectic lately. I work for the NHS. Mainly as a receptionist, but also as a gopher and a big part of the clinical admin team. I sort your referrals with the hospital and your Covid vaccines. And I’m a Gandland Crime Writer. I started writing late in life, I had just […]
My Brush with Mortality—3 Realizations that Inspired my Novel
My Brush with Mortality—3 Realizations that Inspired my Novel During the pandemic, a series of poor health reports resulted in three surgeries (two planned and one life-saving emergency surgery that led to a nine-day recovery stint in the hospital). Nothing makes you reevaluate your life like facing your mortality. Alone at night in that hospital […]
The Urgency of the Story
The Urgency of the Story Before there were podcasts, there were call-in radio shows, and listeners would often identify themselves as “long-time listener, first-time caller.” Similarly, I’m a long-time writer, first-time author, and it really has been a long time! I began a youthful writing practice when my parents gave me a blue “journal” (actually, […]
The Golden Rule by Nancy Joie Wilkie
“The Golden Rule” (by Nancy Joie Wilkie, Faraway and Forever—More Stories) The third story in Faraway and Forever … “Half The Sky” … is about a teenage girl just prior to her eighteenth birthday … and who has been estranged from her parents for her entire life … and she doesn’t know why. After believing […]
Why Do Female Protagonists Have to be Likable?
Why Do Female Protagonists Have to be Likable? Karina Cortés, the protagonist of my debut novel, ONE TOUGH COOKIE, has been called unlikable by many who’ve read the book. This was something I was aware of as I wrote, something I wanted her to be. Through all the rewrites, I kept her core personality intact, […]
An Interview with Roberta S. Kuriloff
An Interview with Roberta S. Kuriloff As a child living in an orphanage, Roberta S. Kuriloff dreamed of being Superman’s daughter flying above Earth to save the world’s disenfranchised children or being the Pied Piper leading the other kids back to their family homes. At 39, she set out to build a home of her […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Suzanne Trauth
In What Remains of Love, Kate Whitman, a French professor living in New Jersey, has just lost her beloved father, Daniel Whitman, to illness. At the reading of his will, she discovers that he has left $250,000 to Emilie Renault, an artist living in the south of France, whom he apparently knew during his military […]
A Daring Performance: Caitlin Hicks
Caitlin Hicks is an international playwright, acclaimed performer and prize-winning author in British Columbia, Canada. In this piece, she shares what happened when she performed her play SIX PALM TREES in front of her family. Everyone was there including my mother’s sister, Aunt Cecile, who hadn’t died yet. All my siblings and a number of […]
Are We There Yet? By Thelma Adams
Are We There Yet? By Thelma Adams I have a day job and a night job and sometimes they intertwine. My day job is as a film critic and entertainment journalist; you know what I do “at night.” Write novels. Last month I interviewed X-Files superstar David Duchovny, 62, about Bucky F**king Dent, the film […]
My Writing Journey by Nancy Thayer
By Nancy Thayer My first novel, Stepping, was published by Doubleday in 1980. What a long time ago! We were living in a fourth-floor walk-up apartment in Kulosaari, a suburb of Helsinki, Finland. I wrote the first six chapters by hand in a small notebook while my two children, two and four, were “taking naps […]
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