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My Writing Toolbox
Words, words, words. Writers string them together in a specific order to create stories and draw readers to their work. And if we’re fortunate, we keep them there, turning page after page. But sometimes, readers stop short. They get in a page or two, maybe even more, and then close the book. Decide to quit. Why […]
An Author and Her Editor Haggle Over Details
An Author and Her Editor Haggle Over Details: Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood and Travis Snyder Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood’s Constellations of Eve as a Unique Editorial Experiment In her new novel Constellations of Eve, Abbigail Rosewood offers three iterations of one love story, each beginning over with a few changed variables. These seemingly small augmentations drastically alter […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: Stacy Gold
Author Stacy gold interviews Jules Martinez and Evan Davenport from her latest steamy, outdoor adventure romance novel, Wild at Heart (May 2, 2022, Onyva). When these two meet, they’re each hiking a part of the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) solo in search of themselves. Mother Nature has other plans, though, and keeps shoving Evan and […]
Julie Stone: On Writing
Ten years. That’s a long time between book releases. Especially when you write Rom-Com. The me who wrote my first three books was living her life solidly in the demographic for the genre, though by book three I’d edged my way a wee bit outside of it. But the trials and tribulations of those heroines […]
You’ve Got to Have Grit: My Path to Publication
by Debbie Schrack One of my favorite novels of all time is a classic western by Charles Portis called True Grit. In the story, fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross teams up with a burned-out U.S. marshal and a Texas ranger to pursue her father’s killer, Tom Chaney, through hostile territory. Although Mattie doesn’t have the experience of […]
Writing AT THE QUIET EDGE
I never imagined I’d write a book told partly from the point-of-view of a twelve-year-old, but Everett is the perfect conduit for AT THE QUIET EDGE, a story that originated with my own son. The idea for this suspense began when my teenager drove a young coworker home after their shift at our local pizza […]
When Characters Break Free and Authors Become Scribes
I was recently in a book group discussing my novel, Between Two Rivers, set in then Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) between the 1950s and the 1970s. One of the characters disappears towards the end of the story. (Spoiler alert.) The character is Beatrice, Shona maid to English wife and mother Jenny in the suburbs of Salisbury […]
Simplify the Narrative by Jean Alicia Elster
Simplify the Narrative by Jean Alicia Elster I travel before I begin work on a manuscript. My most recent three books have been historical fiction based upon my maternal family history. For the first two books, my trips were local. And many of the places were those that I had previously visited both as a […]
Writing What You Don’t Know By Gin Phillips
Writing What You Don’t Know By Gin Phillips Write what you know. I’ve heard it a million times, and I’ve even said it plenty of times myself. The truth is that, particularly for beginning writers, capturing your own experience has a real power. It’s visceral. But the other truth is that if you’re a writer, […]
The Inspiration Behind Never Natalie
The Inspiration Behind Never Natalie By A.J. Walkley They say a book is a baby, some authors taking about nine months from conception to completion before birthing their new work into the world for all to read. For me, my newest title had the longest gestation of any of my books to date at just […]
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