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How Being a Wedding Planner Impacts My Stories as a Romance Writer
How Being a Wedding Planner Impacts My Stories as a Romance Writer The reaction when people find out about my day job is pretty universal: a long drawn out awwwwwww quickly followed by the question “Do you write your books about weddings?” The simple answer is no, or maybe more accurately, not yet, since I […]
BOOKS FOR CHILDREN? THAT’S NOT PROPER WRITING, IS IT?
BOOKS FOR CHILDREN? THAT’S NOT PROPER WRITING, IS IT? By Sally Costelloe When I began writing fiction a few years ago, after leaving a 20-year career in magazine journalism, I didn’t tell anyone; I wrote purely for myself. It was my private hobby, a way of escaping reality for a short while into the secret […]
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu interviews Bridget Pitt
Tune into this conversation between two Catalyst Press authors: Bridget Pitt, whose North American debut novel Eye Brother Horn released this January, and Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, who was recently awarded the Windham Campbell Prize for her City of Kings trilogy, the third book of which (The History of Man) will be released by Catalyst Press […]
Galician Women Writers: Language, Politics, Identity
Galician Women Writers: Language, Politics, Identity Literature has played a key role in visibilising the distinct national identity of Galicia, the bilingual Atlantic territory located in northwestern Spain which has close cultural and linguistic ties to Portugal. Galician-Portuguese is the language of the cantigas, the lyric form that was a characteristic feature of Iberian culture […]
My Writing Journey Katy Brent
My Writing Journey Katy Brent How To Kill Men and Get Away With it began as an embryonic idea with an elevator line of ‘a stabby Sex and the City’, when I started a Faber Academy writing course in 2018. At the time I was, along with half the planet, a bit obsessed with Jodie […]
Romance Writing as a Career by Sariah Wilson
Romance Writing as a Career Sariah Wilson Growing up, I didn’t know anyone who was an actual writer. I loved books and reading more than just about anything—it was how I spent most of my free time. But I never really considered the possibility that I might be able to write a book and become […]
Kwan Kew Lai: On Book Events
The time has come, to talk of many things: Of book events— and signing—and book tours—Of Margaret Atwood —and Stephen King—- Recently Chelsea Banning, a librarian who published her debut novel, Of Crowns and Legends tweeted that she was bummed only two people showed up for her first book signing event despite several RSVPs. Famous […]
Publishing Journey: Of School and Women
I surprised myself by publishing a book. And at my age I didn’t think I had any surprises left. Of School and Women was born from my days as an undergrad and bartender. It’s woven together with my infatuation with the clarity of truth in hindsight, mixed in with nostalgia and blended with a dreamy […]
ANGELINE Excerpt
The following is an excerpt from Anna Quinn’s novel ANGELINE. This story examines the formation of identity through the lens of loss and guilt, and the power of women creating a non-hierarchal space. Quinn is the author of The Night Child, (Blackstone, 2018). When she isn’t writing, she’s reading, biking or hiking somewhere on this […]
On Writing THE MARRIED WIDOW: MY JOURNEY WITH BOB ZAPPA
On December 8, 2018 my dear husband, Bob Zappa, passed away from hereditary amyloidosis. Although he had been sick for several years, his death was still sudden and unexpected. Bob and I had only been married for 3 years. He was 75 when he passed away. I was 71 when I became a widow. After […]
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