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A Random Encounter Leads to Newsletter Happiness
A year into the pandemic, baby boomers (my age group) became eligible to get the vaccine in Massachusetts. Early on the morning of that first day, I joined hundreds of thousands of others trying to get on the state’s vaccine website. Ordinarily, websites are no problem for me. All day long, I navigate, sign in, […]
Ann Garvin interviews the characters of her novel I Thought You Said This Would Work
Three Frenemies risk their sanity on a cross country road trip with an enormous dog in a dilapidated camper all for the mutual love of a best friend in the hospital. “Ann Garvin navigates the twists and turns of female friendship like few writers working today. I THOUGHT YOU SAID THIS WOULD WORK is at once profound, […]
TEARS OF AMBER by Sofía Segovia
When Mexican literary star Sofía Segovia’s Spanish language novel, El murmullo de las Abejas, was translated and published in English in 2019, The Washington Post praised Segovia as “a writer whose absorbing yet accessible prose and gift for sprinkling the mystical into a deeply human narrative is sure to draw comparisons to Latin American greats, […]
Juggling Life and Art: One Woman’s Story
For many women writers trying to achieve book publication, there are detours, roadblocks, and dead ends. The release of both my first book, Winded: A Memoir in Four Stages, in 2019, and my novel The Remnants of Summer this May illustrate the circuitous route some women and their books travel. In early 1993, when I […]
Dear Black Woman Writer
Dear Black Woman With A Pen, You say you want to be a writer. Here is how. Write. That is it. Writers write. You want to be a writer. You write. You are not stealing time. It may feel like there are more important things. There are children to feed; partners to tend to; elder […]
How the Isle of Skye has Influenced my Writing
By Liz MacRae Shaw I was brought up in the south of England but my mother was born and bred on the Isle of Skye so every summer I spent a month on the island with my grandparents. The wild beauty of Skye made a huge impression on me as did the distinctive music, the […]
Interview with Mary O’Connor from The Ends of the Earth
Author Abbie Greaves interviews Mary O’Connor from her new novel The Ends of the Earth, known as Anywhere for You in the USA & Canada. It tells the story of why Mary has been stood outside Ealing Broadway train station every evening for the last seven years, carrying a sign that reads simply: COME HOME […]
Authors Interview Characters: Yang Huang
“Huang does an admirable job balancing Bao’s individual story against the canvas of China’s evolution using crisply drawn characters who reveal their layers as the story progresses. . . . A knotty, engaging novel of China’s recent history.”—Kirkus Reviews When a handsome young gay American man walks into Mr. Cai’s small tailor shop in provincial […]
From Opera Singer to Memoir Author – an Eleven Year Odyssey
“Really? You wrote a book?” I can see the incredulity when people learn what I’ve done, particularly from those who know me as a singer, music teacher, synagogue cantor, mother. Sometimes I also get the wistful, faraway look, and this: “I want to write a book someday.” I smile and murmur encouraging words. But I […]
The first step of writing a novel? Getting out of your own way
By Peyton H. Roberts As my debut novel Beneath the Seams releases into the world, it’s humbling to remember I almost didn’t start writing it. My writing experience to date included informative articles and blog posts. Attempting longform fiction felt like traveling to a foreign country without knowing the language. The trouble was, a story […]
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