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Where It All Began: My Southern Roots
Where It All Began: My Southern Roots As a country singer croons, “Blame it all on my roots…” He might as well add, especially in the South. From the time we are children in small towns across the south, we absorb our surroundings, family, and culture. Some of us lived in tumultuous times and apologized […]
Unapologetically Me: A Healing Writing Practice to Reconnect to Self & Own Your Story
Four years ago, when I lived in a palatial California basement apartment with French doors that opened up onto a lush garden with lemon, orange, and fig trees, I found myself lying face down on the earth, in mourning. My father, my number one fan of my writer Self, had died a few months earlier. […]
THE ART & CRAFTINESS OF CRITIQUE
THE ART & CRAFTINESS OF CRITIQUE By Lorraine Devon Wilke “I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.” ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart “The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism” ― Norman Vincent Peale Criticism. Getting it. Giving it. […]
Writing Serious Nonfiction Accessibly
Sydney Halpern, author of Dangerous Medicine: The Story behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis (Yale University Press, November 2021), reflects on how to present complex historical material to multiple audiences. When I began working on Dangerous Medicine, one of my goals was to turn thorny subject matter into a book valuable to scholars while also of […]
On Writing Memoir, by Mary Hollendoner
By Mary Hollendoner I always hated writing. English class was my least favorite subject at school – writing essays about obscure points of literature and having to hit a certain number of pages – none of it inspired me. So I never imagined that I’d write a book… but here I am! My book was […]
A hell of an inspiration by Cristina Loggia
A hell of an inspiration by Cristina Loggia My paternal grandfather, Guido: he served in the Italian army during the Second World War and told me stories about the conflict. Like my maternal grandfather, Renzo. Stories that happened to them and to people around them. Some of these stories were quite dramatic –both of them […]
G.R. Macallister Interviews Fasiq from Scorpica
G.R. Macallister Interviews Fasiq from Scorpica Scorpica is the first book in an epic fantasy series called The Five Queendoms, set in a matriarchal world. In this world, women hold every position of power, from queens and senators to priests and sorcerers, as well as heading up individual households. In this world it’s no surprise […]
On Writing Divine Vintage
The book of my heart, Divine Vintage, evolved from an homage to the beauty of vintage fashion to encompass gratitude to the Indiana county I call home. I set my debut novel in a semi-fictionalized version of our largest town, Michigan City, which borders majestic Lake Michigan. Write what you know, to the purest degree. […]
Walk Like a Man
Walk Like a Man By Lorena Hughes What do George Sand, George Eliot, and James Barry have in common? Aside from the fact that they were all successful in their fields, they were all women. The author known as George Sand was, in fact, a French baroness who defied all conventions not only by separating […]
Veronica Gutierrez interviews Yolanda Avila from AS YOU LOOK
Veronica Gutierrez interviews Yolanda Avila from AS YOU LOOK Debut author Veronica Gutierrez introduces us to Yolanda Avila, a Los Angeles private investigator struggling with the intersection of grief, guilt, and latent psychic tendencies following the death of her mother. Her struggle peaks when she must solve her godson’s kidnapping and find her wife’s stalker, […]
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