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Karen Nelson: My Writing Journey
On my bookshelf next to my published novels sits my first book, The Popcorn Popper That Couldn’t Stop Popping, written and illustrated in crayon. I was nine. My main character, Patricia, was seven. As a child I devoured Winnie the Pooh, Louisa May Alcott, The Five Little Peppers, Aesop’s Fables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and The […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Amy Lorowitz
Summer Husband Lori Kramer, a stay-at-home mom, would go to any length to give her two daughters the summer experience of their lives – even getting a job at their camp and tagging along with them. Aside from overseeing the chaos of four bunks filled with rambunctious kids and their counselors, Lori also manages to […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Jessica Guerrieri
BOTH CAN BE TRUE When a local mother goes missing, two estranged sisters are pulled back into each other’s lives and forced to confront old wounds, fractured trust, and the many ways a woman can disappear in plain sight. Frankie is the funny one, full of restless energy and sharp edges, the sister who got […]
Never Say “Never!” Our Passions as Writers May Take Us to Unexpected Places by Lynn Slaughter
My fiction writing journey began with writing for young adults. Members of my Sisters in Crime chapter routinely referred to me as the “young adult writer” of their group. I was fine with that. I love writing YA fiction. Adolescence is such an intense, dramatic, perfectly awful and wonderful period in our lives in which […]
DON’T LET BACKSTORY SLOG THE PLOT By Christina Hamlett
Chapter One: I am Born. Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) […]
I Never Set Out to Write a Book About Leadership By Kerry-Lyn Stanton-Downes
I set out to understand something much more personal than that. How humans heal, change and grow in relationship with each other. That one question has been with me as long as I can remember. Long before I had the language for it. Long before I knew it would eventually become a book – or […]
Anne Shaw Heinrich: Authors Interviewing Characters
With House of Teeth, Book Three in the captivating world of The Women of Paradise County Series, Anne Shaw Heinrich draws readers back into the complex confines of Poulson, a small town that simmers with unspoken rules, quiet surprises and truths that are hard to contain. Just like any young man, Jules Marks is happy […]
What Burnout Taught Me By Hayley Hughes
“I was a people-pleasing, high-achieving perfectionist” – what burnout taught me It’s possible the message in the wind, sky or the trees isn’t about fighting for a fairy tale. Maybe it’s about being receptive to finding the fairy tale in the most unexpected places. These days, I believe this. So much so that it’s the […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Linda Hartley
ANGEL WING It’s 1955. Ellen is driving to Belfast to search for the mother she has never known, and had thought long dead, when she has an accident. As her life hangs in the balance, flashbacks of her loveless childhood and memories of her experience as a teenage evacuee during WW2 unfold. ANGEL WING is […]
I Had to Write the Story, By Jean Trounstine
By Jean Trounstine I have always thought of myself as a non-fiction writer. After all, I worked in prison, directing plays for almost ten years, and wrote my first book, Shakespeare Behind Bars: The Power of Drama in a Women’s Prison about that work. I’ve published articles about prison and parole, and almost all of […]
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