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Authors Interviewing Characters: KRISTINA GORCHEVA-NEWBERRY IN CONVERSATION WITH ANYA RANEVA: THE ORCHARD
KRISTINA GORCHEVA-NEWBERRY IN CONVERSATION WITH ANYA RANEVA: THE ORCHARD, Author/Character Interview About THE ORCHARD Four teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union—but not all of them will live to see the new world arrive in this powerful debut novel, loosely based on Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. “Spectacular . . . intensely […]
How my Apparel Sales Career led to a Writing gig
I had always envisioned a career as a journalist, but life had other plans. Right after my college graduation, our family had an emergency while my apparel sales rep dad was at a trade show in Atlanta. When no one from his companies could cover for him so he could attend to the emergency, dad […]
From Book to Hallmark Movie: 8 Things You Didn’t Know
From Book to Hallmark Movie: 8 Things You Didn’t Know by Denise Hunter Most novelists dream of having one of their books adapted into a movie. I know I did. And somehow I’ve been blessed to have three Hallmark movie adaptations. (The Convenient Groom, A December Bride, and The Goodbye Bride). When my first movie […]
Michelle Cruz: On Writing
If I’m honest, it’s Tom Clancy and John Grisham’s faults. Although they weren’t exactly approved authors in my ultra-conservative upbringing, at least they weren’t forbidden. But there were few women, and—especially in Tom Clancy’s case—they were tangential to the plot, barely mentioned, and often more of a footnote. So in all the audacity of my […]
The Book of Nature: An Offhand Beginning
The Book of Nature: An Offhand Beginning by Barbara Mahany Every book has its backstory, and my most recent, The Book of Nature: The Astonishing Beauty of God’s First Sacred Text (Broadleaf Books, March 21, 2023), is one that began in the unlikeliest of ways. There I was, a half-hour deep into a radio talk […]
High Tide in the Redwoods: Memoir, Migration and This Wilderness in My Blood
High Tide in the Redwoods: Memoir, Migration and This Wilderness in My Blood By Terra Trevor My bags were packed, boxes stacked, and escrow was closing. We were downsizing, and moving from the city where we lived for the past forty-three years. We didn’t have a new house to move into, not yet. While we […]
Interview with Donna Spruijt-Metz, author of General Release from the Beginning of the World
In the life following the death of her father by suicide, Donna Spruijt-Metz has reinvented herself more times than Madonna. “I’m the girl in the commune, braless and sitting in at moratoriums against the Viet Nam war,” Spruijt-Metz writes in her latest for Sari Botton’s Oldster, “the dazed immigrant studying flute at the conservatory in […]
The Writing Process for Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman: Public Mystic and Freedom Fighter
The Writing Process for Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman: Public Mystic and Freedom Fighter Therese Taylor-Stinson As a Black woman, Harriet Tubman has always been on my radar. She has always stood as one of our sheros during enslavement and beyond. However, in recent years, Harriet has been reintroduced to me by organizations like […]
There’s No “Magic Formula” to Write a Book
There’s No “Magic Formula” to Write a Book I wish I could give you a magic formula for how to write a book. That if you have the perfect morning routine, follow the Artist’s Way, or join the right writers’ group, then bam, it will happen. A book will appear, and it will be a […]
Vannetta Chapman: My Writing Process
It seems to me that any piece that discusses the writing process has to begin with a very important caveat. Everyone’s process is different. That’s not merely a disclaimer, it’s true. Art works that way. Every artist is unique in their approach to their art. Every work of art is distinctive. So, it makes sense […]
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