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My Journey to Publication: Emily Freud
Like most people who end up writing a book, I always wanted to write a book. As a teenager I grappled with quite debilitating social anxiety, so books and TV were my escape. I was indoctrinated through series like Sweet Valley High and Point Horror in my early adolescence, and then devoured all the ‘chick-lit’ […]
Writing Without A Net
My closest companions after the death of my husband were the books I wrote. Long into the exhaustion of countless nights after finishing my day as a psychotherapist and throughout the weekends where the sounds of my aloneness were deafening, I wrote my second book on a contractual deadline that taught me I could write […]
My Inspiration from Women on the Front Line in WW1 and During the Time of Covid
Juliet Greenwood One of my inspirations for The Girl with the Silver Clasp was a passage I’d come across in my research into the First World War, which talked about the many 1920s women who experienced what we would now call PTSD, as a result of their experiences. I’d read about men coming back from […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Susan Schoenberger
For those who enjoyed The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer and The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett, The Liabilities of Love is an ambitious and masterful portrayal of the complex journey of how trauma can reverberate throughout a woman’s life, the differing perspectives people have on intimacy and the unintended consequences and risks of falling in love. Following the death […]
Beth Kephart: Teaching to Write
Teaching to Write Beth Kephart We have Zoomed into a room; we are present. We are holding Mary-Louise Parker’s words in our heads, her inestimable “Dear Daddy.” I have recited this essay’s final words as if I myself had written them, swallowed back the sweet and bitter of my empathy: Going up Sixth Avenue in […]
Writing a Gothic Novel—Victorian Serial Style
Writing a Gothic Novel—Victorian Serial Style By Mimi Matthews My upcoming supernatural Victorian gothic novel John Eyre has been an experiment on so many levels. Not only is it a new genre for me, I wrote it in an entirely new way. Well…new for me. In the Victorian era, many authors wrote their novels in […]
TELL ME A STORY, MY FRIEND
TELL ME A STORY, MY FRIEND My friends often asked, “Where do you get your ideas for your stories?” I’d just tell them, “Keep on talking.” They’d laugh, unaware that many of my ideas did, indeed, come from them. Make me laugh, and I promise that your amusing story will become a punchline for one […]
Pay attention! Your Next Novel Can Come From Anywhere
Katie Crouch “Embassy Wife” author Pay attention. Your next novel can come from anywhere. I wrote Embassy Wife mainly because baboons broke into my house. Let’s back up. My husband, Peter, won a Fulbright to Namibia in 2015 to teach at the University of Namibia. At the time we were living in San Francisco. We […]
How I Selected the Stories in Coming Soon: Women’s Orgasm Erotica
How I Selected the Stories in Coming Soon: Women’s Orgasm Erotica by Rachel Kramer Bussel The idea for Coming Soon: Women’s Orgasm Erotica stemmed from a previous anthology I edited called Orgasmic, both of them focused on the many different ways women orgasm, which I knew is always a popular topic among readers. When I […]
The Story Behind The Rules of Arrangement and a Journey to Writing
By ANISHA BHATIA. One hot Sunday in Bombay, my auntie rushed into our apartment, vexed. Her skin was flushed, and she faced my parents and demanded, “What are you all doing?” The focus was me, all of 22 years old, and the topic was my marriage. Her urgency was palpable in her rushing out of […]
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