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On Writing Emotional Repatterning
A number of years ago, I went to see a psychic who was supposed to be very good. It wasn’t my first experience seeing a psychic, nor do I suppose will it be my last. It was a very interesting reading, for numerous reasons, but one thing in particular didn’t seem accurate: she told me […]
Writing about The First World War and Time Travel
By Catherine Taylor The First World War and time travel are not topics that, on the face of it, would seem to make good bedfellows. Agents told me as much. Though they liked my writing, they wondered how on earth such a book could be marketed. Still, that was the story in my heart – […]
Michelle Major’s Character Interview with Meredith Ventner
In Magnolia, North Carolina, love might be waiting right next door… Meredith Ventner knows a wounded creature when she sees one. Though her temporary new neighbor may be—on the surface at least—a successful, drop-dead gorgeous doctor, she recognizes the deep hurt Ryan Sorensen is carrying, and it’s catnip to her soul. But even though Meredith is […]
How Not To Make A Book Launch Video
by Kathleen Whyman For as long as I’ve dreamed of being an author, I’ve also dreamed about the moment I first get to hold a copy of my book. The thrill of seeing my name on the cover of an actual book, filled with words that I wrote. The knowledge that a publisher thought those […]
Writing to Transgress: A fight against feeling like a fraud
Neda Aria Pema Chödrön, an American nun in the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, in an interview in 1993 said, “my models were the people who stepped outside of the conventional mind and who could actually stop my mind and completely open it up and free it, even for a moment, from a conventional, habitual […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: Denny S. Bryce Interviews Lil Hardin Armstrong
Jazz-age Chicago comes to vibrant life in Denny S. Bryce’s evocative novel that links the stories of an ambitious chorus girl and a modern-day film student, both coming to grips with loss, forgiveness, and the limitations—and surprises—of love. 1925: Chicago is the jazz capital of the world, and the Dreamland Café is the ritziest black-and-tan club […]
Writing Fragile Monsters
In one sense, Fragile Monsters took two years to write. In another, it took three generations. Fragile Monsters is the story of an Indian-Malaysian family living through the Japanese invasion of Malaya in WW2 and the subsequent Malayan Emergency. It explores this traumatic and politically turbulent time through the fractured relationship between a granddaughter and […]
Lazarus Remembered – The Partnership Between Author and Narrator
E J Harper Lazarus Remembered, a story told with words and music, is an immersive audiobook. My debut novel, it’s a contemporary family drama that explores the challenges within non-traditional family structures and how the pressure to conform to society’s expectations can tear lives apart. It features a soundtrack with thirteen original songs by my […]
Criticism Is My Best Friend
By Michele Kwasniewski I’d like to introduce you to one of my best friends. It could become one of your best friends, too, if you have an open mind, a firm grip on who you are and consider change an opportunity for growth. Please meet criticism. Constructive criticism is its full name. Feedback is its […]
Valentine by George Sand: A Review
It was not until the fall of 2015 when I had my first encounter with the great figure of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, better known as George Sand, only thanks to my obsession with Chopin and with classical music. The curse of entrapment in a man’s name seemed to have found new ways to haunt […]
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