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Writing as a Husband and Wife Team
Describing authorship of Moral Code takes a moment. Beautiful green letters across the book’s cover states Lois and Ross Melbourne. Like our marriage, entrepreneurial partnership, and parenting, we each maintained very unique roles with this sci-fi creation. For eighteen of our thirty years of marriage, we ran a global software company. I was CEO, Ross […]
No Man’s Land
No Man’s Land When I was fourteen years old, the country where I grew up, the German Democratic Republic (GDR), ceased to exist – her anthem and her flag, together with her borders, vanished. She was merged into another country, a country which paradoxically was her sibling, sharing a language, a culture, and a mutual […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: Jamie Beck
About TAKE IT FROM ME Wendy Moore hides her collection of pilfered bric-a-brac from everyone, including her husband. He thinks she licked her kleptomania in therapy more than a decade ago. Therapy did help, as did focusing her attention on motherhood. But now Wendy’s gardening and furniture-refinishing hobbies fill up only so much of the […]
Fatal Locations By Daniella Bernett
Are you a kindred spirit and passionate about discovering new places? Or merely content to be an armchair traveler? Either way, I invite you on a spine-tingling journey into the dark heart of intrigue with A Mind To Murder, the eighth book in my mystery series featuring journalist Emmeline Kirby and her jewel thief/insurance investigator […]
Writing A sky of Infinite Blue — A Japanese Immigrant’s Search for Home and Self
The memoir, “A Sky of Infinite Blue— A Japanese Immigrant’s Search for Home and Self,” is about my journey of healing, spiritual growth, and love. The journey was not only described in the book, but also by writing it, I transformed myself spiritually along with my Buddhist pursuit. In my forming years up to early […]
The Long and Winding Road of Inspiration: Suzanne Parry
The Long and Winding Road of Inspiration Suzanne Parry, author of Lost Souls of Leningrad Inspiration is a funny thing. Sometimes it strikes fast and hard. You stop what you’re doing and grab a pen, a scrap of paper, and rush to get the precious idea recorded. But there’s another kind of inspiration. A slow […]
Success in My Writing Career, and Otherwise: Kate Brandes
Here are some jobs I’ve had: waitress (5 years); factory worker (3 summers); potato bug mapper (1 summer); cashier, feeder of calves, tutor, agricultural advisor ( all 1 year); geologic consultant (6 years); garden designer (4 years); science director at non-profit (6 years); watershed/environmental scientist (4 years); artist (10 years and counting); adjunct professor (4 […]
My Not-So-Secret Other Life as a Dancer by Barbara Quick
The memory is imprecise, like something recollected from a dream: a jewelry box, at eye level to my toddler self. My own hands in the perfection of their childish form—long-fingered, unmarked by life—reaching toward the black lacquer lid painted with blossoms. Hinging it open to animate the tiny pink-clad ballerina who otherwise waits asleep inside. […]
WHEN ONLY A GHOST WILL DO: ON GHOSTWRITING
WHEN ONLY A GHOST WILL DO By Christina Hamlett “It must be so fascinating to be a ghostwriter,” an interviewer told me. “Do you get to go to a bunch of séances?” It took me a beat to realize she assumed I’d built a career around talking to the dead. Silly as that sounds, it […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Jen Craven
Exploring twisted motivations and the tensions between lust and loyalty, Jen Craven’s debut work of contemporary women’s fiction, “Best Years of your Life” is being called “a compelling page-turner” and “a white-knuckle ride of a novel.” Told through the points of view of two college professor moms and their freshman daughter, it’s a story where […]
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