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The Magic Behind the Inspiration By Jody Hadlock
In Elizabeth Gilbert’s magnificent book, Big Magic: Creative Writing Beyond Fear, she writes about how the creative process is “both magical and magic,” that ideas are swirling all around us searching for a human partner to notice them and get to work creating. That’s how it happened with me. I studied journalism in college because […]
You’re Stronger Than You Think: Lisa Roe on Writing
“You’re stronger than you think, and fiercer than you ever dreamed” ~ getting published takes bravery, persistence, and a stubborn streak. I was so lucky that one of my favorite writers, USA Today bestselling author, Abbi Waxman (The Bookish Life of Nina Hill and the upcoming Adult Assembly Required, among others) so generously agreed to […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Tessa Wegert
Dead Wind The body is discovered on Wolfe Island, under the shadow of an enormous wind turbine. Senior Investigator Shana Merchant, arriving on the scene with fellow investigator Tim Wellington, can’t shake the feeling that she knows the victim – and the subsequent identification sends shockwaves through their community in the Thousand Islands of Upstate […]
Dogs and Books and Dog Book People
Dogs and Books and Dog Book People By Teresa J. Rhyne I remember when the pandemic started (who doesn’t?) and I felt so bad for all the authors who had books coming out in Spring 2020. I will admit I also thought “Oh, thank goodness my book isn’t out until October!” And the universe laughed […]
Reading With Rochelle Weinstein: April
Hello Readers and Friends, Spring has sprung, and I’m excited to share this month’s fabulous books. Some authors will tell you they can’t read while they’re writing, but I was a reader before I was a writer, and it’s impossible to give up something that gives me this much joy. While […]
Excerpt from The Homecoming, by Anna Enquist, translated by Eileen Stevens
An internationally bestselling, award-winning novel that explores the passions and sorrows of the wife of eighteenth-century explorer Captain James Cook. The Homecoming by Anna Enquist Translated by Eileen Stevens After twelve years of marriage to English explorer James Cook, Elizabeth has yet to spend an entire year with her husband. In their house by the […]
From Hurt to Healing by Jayne Martin
From Hurt to Healing by Jayne Martin My father’s hands are missing from my life My father’s hands did not hold mine, lift me when I fell, muss my hair or pretend to steal my nose, point the way or beckon me to follow. My father’s hands did not comfort me when I […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Laila Ibrahim
In an early twentieth-century America roiling with racial injustice, class divides, and WWI, two women fight for their dreams in a galvanizing novel by the bestselling author of Golden Poppies. 1915. May and Naomi are extended family, their grandmothers’ lives inseparably entwined on a Virginia plantation in the volatile time leading up to the Civil War. […]
Writing White Africa
I was born and grew up in Zambia, and I developed an early appetite for African fiction. I did my secondary schooling at the Dominican Convent Girls’ School in Lusaka. When I was about thirteen, I was allowed to start borrowing books from the locked glass-fronted cabinet in the library. The headmistress, Sister Cordula, kept […]
Writing Voting Day
By Clare O’Dea Imagine if you could speak to a time traveller? Well, you can. If you want to know what it was like to live in 1950s Switzerland, as I did, you can ask the people who were there. It’s wonderful. Always a compulsive story collector, I never miss a chance to find out […]
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