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Authors Interviewing Characters: Lisa K. Winkler Interviews Anne Brown
In Gershwin’s Bess, Anne Brown, a soprano who aspires to sing opera, leaves her childhood behind in Baltimore in 1928 to enroll at prestigious Juilliard in New York City, realizing that being black will keep her from singing on traditional opera stages. When she hears that the famous composer George Gershwin is creating an opera […]
Inspiration Behind “Thirty Days to Home”
By Cathryn Rakich Street dogs are unheard of where I live in suburban Sacramento, a sprawling Northern California community of 1.5 million people. Stroll along a neighborhood boulevard and you won’t see meandering mutts without owners tethered to the other end of a leash. A drive down the highway reveals no uncorralled canines trotting from […]
Where it Comes From By Pam Troy
It began over a decade ago with a woman’s face. I knew her name immediately — “Gwennoelle Duday.” Also known as “the Witch Duday,” or, with lowered voices, “Herself.” A stout woman in her thirties, with a crown of blond braids pinned up beneath the wide-brimmed palmetto hat that shaded her stern blue eyes, her […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Kristine Rudolph
The Twin Stars and the Soccer Superstar Perfect for fans of Laurie Morrison and Jenn Bishop, this lively middle-grade mystery follows a vibrant group of teens and tweens navigating grief, authenticity, and—above all—soccer, while taking an enjoyable romp through the Texas Hill Country. Every year, spring in Texas means two very different things to sixth […]
A Story That Waited 70 Years to Be Written
By Marcella Luiso Flanagan and Phyllis Clare Orlowski Marcella Luiso Flanagan is 91 years old. For most of her life, she carried a story she knew mattered, but didn’t yet feel ready to tell. Her niece, Phyllis Clare Orlowski, grew up knowing there was something quietly significant about her aunt’s past—especially the months Marcella spent […]
An Author List with a Diverse Twist by Jessica Mudditt
For the past two and a half years, I’ve been running an experiment. I’ve said yes to publishing almost every manuscript that has landed on my desk. Many in the traditional publishing industry would turn their noses up at this. As a publisher, shouldn’t I be wading through the volumes of submissions sent by hopeful […]
Navigating the Spikes by Elizabeth Blackley
You know that feeling when a date in the calendar marks the culmination of a life goal, and after all the hard work, it finally arrives? And as it does, a sledgehammer lands? On the 11th of May, I woke with a low hum of excitement as it was Launch Day for my book, ROW […]
Hannah Sward (Strip: A Memoir) interviews Courtney Kocak on her debut memoir, Girl Gone Wild
GIRL GONE WILD is a collection of exploits and delusions about chasing your dreams with reckless abandon and what happens when their pursuit becomes a new kind of trap. In this memoir-in-essays, Kocak takes readers along on her heady metamorphosis from girl to woman and from dreamer to professional artist, as she is transformed in […]
Channeling Marilyn: Why This Story is So Important to Me by Mima Tipper
A few years ago, I sat with my then young daughter looking through a fashion magazine—I think it was Teen Vogue—and noticed yet another ad paying homage to Marilyn Monroe. That got me thinking about Marilyn’s on-going fame, and a question whispered at me: What would Marilyn’s spirit think of this ad? This wasn’t a […]
A Memoir’s Journey: One Writer’s Process by Margaret Whitford
In the aftermath of my mother’s death, I wrote in response to my complicated grief, not only for my mother but also for the maternal relationship I’d hoped for but did not have. Within the blank pages of my journal, I tried to fathom why we were not together during her final days. My need […]
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