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On The Importance of Storytelling
By Melissa Payne Our stories are important and sharing who we are, where we come from, how we grew up is part of getting to know one another. Learning someone’s story helps us to understand, empathize and sometimes, do something to help others. When I wrote letters to raise money for children who had been […]
How the ‘Ripple of Awakening’ came to being by Ann-Marie Marchant
How the ‘Ripple of Awakening’ came to being by Ann-Marie Marchant The Ripple of Awakening was the book I craved when my life was being dismantled from all that I knew and perceived as ‘normal’. I was facing a divorce, which was excruciatingly painful, on the threshold of my spiritual awakening (SA) and to top […]
The Inspiration for Simply Be More
The Inspiration For Simply Be More Overnight in March 2020, all my work as a headline flautist was cancelled. For the first time in my entire career, my diary, normally packed full of wonderful concerts was completely clear. I knew this was a reset button. I could just sense that the world would never be […]
The Making of The Silent Count, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Making of The Silent Count, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb It is a truth universally acknowledged by the how-to-write-a-novel industrial complex that a thriller in want of a good plot must be in possession of a ticking time bomb. I learned this the hard way while trying to write […]
Tips for Excellent Twists
Tips for Excellent Twists As readers, we crave that jaw-dropping feeling that leaves us slightly stunned, with the book open in our lap as we process the unexpected. Wouldn’t it be great if writing twists were as easy and enjoyable as reading them? To understand what makes an effective plot twist, you have to know […]
A Writer’s Journey By Susan Specht Oram
A Writer’s Journey: How I ended up being published By Susan Specht Oram In the fourth grade, when I wanted to be an author, my maternal grandmother, Gago, paid me one-dollar for every story I wrote. One day I handed in a tale about Caroline, who creeps into an attic and discovers a bloody rope […]
Kaira Rouda: On Writing The Widow
How a major life change led to a novel, becoming a docent at The Library of Congress, and joining a very exclusive club By Kaira Rouda Approximately 12,000 Americans have served in Congress…from the beginning of our country’s founding. When my husband became one of them, I found myself immersed in a world of history, […]
An Unconventional Form: On Writing The Fool and the Magician
An Unconventional Form: On Writing The Fool and the Magician By Angela Lam I wrote my first memoir about growing up Chinese American in a linear fashion, selecting that liminal space between childhood and adolescence to explore my relationship with my father, a man of many faces, a man who I sometimes hated and sometimes […]
Authors Interiewing Characters: Andrea J. Stein
What would you do if your ex brought your break-up to the big screen? That’s the question Callie Dressler, the main character of women’s fiction debut novel TYPECAST, has to ask herself. Callie Dressler thought she’d put her past where it belonged—behind her. But when her ex-boyfriend brings their breakup to the big screen, she […]
The True to Life Inspirations for my Novel, Terra Nova
The True to Life Inspirations for my Novel, Terra Nova By Henriette Lazaridis My favorite stories in childhood were adventure tales like Incredible Journey or Banner in the Sky. I always liked to imagine myself as an explorer, climbing and hiking in my small world of woods and snow and swamps. When, at age seven, […]
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