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Writing Romance When the World is Burning
Writing Romance When the World is Burning By Jo McNally, author of When Sparks Fly If you’re looking for a one-size-fits-all solution for writing through chaos, I’ll let you know right now it doesn’t exist, in this article or anywhere else. Mainly because each of us is in our own unique chaos, which seems to […]
One Writer’s Beginnings: The Bitter Gift of Trauma, by Barbara Quick
“For any novel—or any poem, for that matter—to really speak to readers, there has to be emotional juice there for the writer.” by Barbara Quick I grew up in Los Angeles in the 1950s and ‘60s. My father was an extremely sensitive, artistic, and intelligent man who, from, the get-go in his marriage with my […]
HALF THE WORK, TWICE THE FUN? What You Need To Know About Collaborating
HALF THE WORK, TWICE THE FUN? (What You Need To Know About Collaborating) By Christina Hamlett “Let’s get the kids together and put on a show in the old barn!” This plucky trope emerged in the 1930s movies of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. To this day, it perpetuates the myth that any disparate group […]
Things You Didn’t Know About Writing What We Know: Louisa Morgan
Writing What We Know The oldest bit of writing advice I know of is to “write what you know.” It’s still good advice, though a bit long in the tooth! It will serve you best if you understand what it is you know that will interest readers. It’s important to be aware that what may […]
Reading With Rochelle Weinstein: August
Hello, Readers & Friends! July was a fantastic month for books—I feel as though I say that every month, but I’m amazed every time I finish a wonderful story and the amount of talent out there. Here are my latest reads as well as this August’s picks featured on NBC 6 in The Mix: The […]
Inspiration for THE PRECIOUS JULES
Even as a young child, I knew Rosewood was a horrid place. The Rosewood Center, formerly known as The Maryland State Asylum and Training School for the Feeble Minded, was the kind of place you drove past in the family wagon and held your breath to ward off a curse. It was the insult you […]
The Inspiration behind THE WRONG KIND OF WOMAN
Sarah McCraw Crow Years ago, when I arrived at Dartmouth College, in small-town New Hampshire, I was a fish out of water, a Southern girl encountering northern New England for the first time. I was enchanted by the unfamiliar landscape—sugar maples, granite outcroppings, distant mountains, the snow—and by almost everything about Dartmouth. I loved my […]
The Inspiration Behind THE CHILD FROM UKRAINE
Between the ages of 7 and 18, I lived with my Ukrainian grandmother Yulia, and I exclusively spoke Ukrainian with her, as she did not speak much English. We had mornings together, we had afternoons after school together when she would talk to me about gathering mushrooms in the local forest… we would watch soap […]
Writing High Flyers: 15 Inspiring Women Aviators and Astronauts
Powerful Stories for Women of Power By Ann McCallum Staats They did what? They went where? I didn’t write about humdrum women. There is nothing boring about the subjects I chose to include in my latest book, High Flyers: 15 Inspiring Women Aviators and Astronauts. Instead, I interviewed and researched exceptional leaders, doers and risk-takers, […]
Women With Attitude: How ‘80s New Wave Music Fueled Feminism
By Suzanne Mattaboni When I set out to write my novel Once in a Lifetime, I wanted to focus on female friendships, and on a young woman’s struggle to find her place in the world. That said, I made the decision to set the story in the 1980s. Little did I know at the time […]
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