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Finding My Voice in Nineteenth-Century France
Finding My Voice in Nineteenth-Century France Laura Stanfill Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary, my debut novel, is forthcoming from Lanternfish Press in April 2022. I’ll be forty-six. It’s taken a long time to embrace my material and my voice; I probably needed these decades to acknowledge my neurodivergence and to recognize my way of […]
From New York to Rome: Authors in Conversation: Connie Hertzberg Mayo and Crystal King
From New York to Rome: An interview with authors Connie Hertzberg Mayo and Crystal King Crystal: We both write historical fiction. I do it because I love uncovering lost moments in time and trying to imagine the lives of people in those eras and those places. I was so drawn to Italy and I fell […]
Karen Hugg: On Writing
When I was a child in the 1970s, I felt like an outsider. While other kids had the usual set of two parents, I only had a mother. And among kids I knew whose parents had divorced, oftentimes the father was involved in their child’s life, albeit distantly. But for me, my father was permanently […]
To Market, To Market! By Barbara Kennard
In what ways are you, as a writer, also a seller? This question might sound odd especially if you rely solely on others to market your book. Of course writers need publicists to help get our work out into the world; however, by promoting our books we realize that we market too! I taught English […]
Artists in My Life: Process and Product
Margaret Randall Of the many books I have written in my 85 years, Artists in My Life may seem like a departure. It’s not. I have always had a profound relationship with visual artists. My mother was a sculptor and the original work of many artists hung on the walls of my childhood home. Visiting […]
Feast to Famine, and Famine to Feast, Writer Style
Five years ago, I was living what I will affectionately call “the writer high life.” I’d been in the business as a professional for a short time and felt like I was doing a good job of building my career and my backlist. With a decent helping of luck going my way, I saw no […]
On Growing Your Novel: Magical Gifts on Real-life Trees
The going always gets hard at some stage of writing a novel – at least, it always has for me. And then the main thing is not to give up. My new novel, The Red Children, out this April, is my seventeenth book and in a way the one I love best, partly because I’ve […]
Writing MUSE: Uncovering the Hidden Figures Behind art History’s Masterpieces
I remember the day vividly well. Due to Covid, we were all in a strict and first imposed lockdown in London. I was working in the upstairs bedroom when I saw the new email pop into my inbox. It came bearing neatly typed bad news from my publisher: with much regret, they were going to […]
Crossing the Border Between this World and Another Dimension
By SC Skillman I’m delighted to have this chance to tell you about my newly-completed novel Director’s Cut, which is currently on submission to publishers and agents. As a writer of psychological, paranormal and mystery fiction and non-fiction, I always like to include an element of magic in my stories, something that shifts the action […]
Writing about War and Survival: Nadija Mujagić
I am a woman. I am a writer. I am a war survivor. A few days after I celebrated my fourteenth birthday, I watched tanks move into the Sarajevo airport across the street from my home. The year was 1992, and Yugoslavia had already fallen apart. My mother, my sister, and I stood at the […]
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