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Writing About Death by Saralyn Richard
As a mystery author, I’m often asked how and why I write about death. “You’re such a genteel lady. Why don’t you write about happy things: parties, petit fours, and puppies?” I do write about happy things. Parties, petit fours, and puppies inhabit my books, for sure, because those are some of the delightful things […]
How It All Started, by Suzanne Redfearn
By Suzanne Redfearn It started out simple: I had a story I wanted to tell. The hard part was I wasn’t a writer and didn’t know the first thing about writing a novel. Fortunately, when I started, I didn’t care if it was good. I wasn’t looking to get published. I was simply determined to […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Cleyvis Natera
Neruda on the Park by Cleyvis Natera An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification “Strikes all the right notes—captivating characters, lyrical language, and a storyline that captures your imagination and refuses to let go . . . an […]
On Writing: You’re Stronger Than You Think
“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) generously agreed to blurb […]
Q&A with Rosie Acosta, Author of YOU ARE RADICALLY LOVED: A Healing Journey to Self Love
Q&A with Rosie Acosta, Author of YOU ARE RADICALLY LOVED: A Healing Journey to Self Love (Tarcher/Perigee; February 2022) From the award-winning host of the Radically Loved podcast, comes an invitation to discover the healing power of who you are, body, mind, and spirit. Rosie Acosta is a world-renowned yoga and meditation teacher, host of the top-rated iTunes podcast, Radically Loved, and author of YOU […]
An Interview with Kathleen Courtenay Stone
THEY CALLED US GIRLS: Stories of Female Ambition from Suffrage to Mad Men by Kathleen C. Stone is a wonderful new collective biography of seven women who aspired to professional jobs in the mid-twentieth century. It was an era when women were expected to find fulfillment at home, in the mold of television’s June Cleaver. But these women […]
For the Birds
For the Birds, by Claudia Hinz I became a birder out of desperation in the early days of the pandemic, on an afternoon when the hours felt both flabby and flimsy, so that I couldn’t tell you if it was one o’clock or almost dinner time. Tuesday or Thursday. Until that day, I’d always been […]
She Will Soar: Why Women Write about Escape and Freedom
My second anthology of poems by women, She Will Soar, aimed again at an 11+ audience as She Is Fierce was, takes as its themes wanderlust, freedom and escape – themes which suddenly took on a strange relevance as I edited the book during lockdown. I have always believed in books and poetry as magic […]
Writing and My Search for a Balance of East and West By Diane Dreher, author of The Tao of Inner Peace
Writing and My Search for a Balance of East and West By Diane Dreher, author of The Tao of Inner Peace Each of our lives tells a story with its own recurrent lessons. My story combines East and West in a personal quest for balance that led to my book, The Tao of Inner Peace. […]
LIKE ME, by Hayley Phelan, Excerpt
LIKE ME by Hayley Phelan A seductive psychological thriller about obsession, illusion, and female identity in the digital age. Though beautiful, cunning, and privileged, nineteen-year-old Mickey finds herself with a stalled modeling career, an escalating drinking problem, few friends, and next to nothing in the bank. To numb her growing despair, she spends her days […]
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