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I Feel Qualified to Write About a Luxury Sports Car Despite Never Touching One By Audrey Burges
By Audrey Burges The Lamborghini felt the sun glancing off its sensuous curves and rolled languidly out of the garage. Its headlights were bright and perfectly symmetrical. They poked delicately through the black leather embracing its generously rounded front end, quivering slightly in the cold morning air. The gentle breeze tickled under its hood, making […]
The Challenge of Research in Lockdown
The Challenge of Research in Lockdown It’s been a difficult time for most writers to carry out the research during lockdown, but it’s particularly challenging for authors like me who write historical fiction. I started A Sister’s War, the third of The Victory Sisters trilogy, set in the Second World War in January last year, […]
NOTES FROM THE BATHROOM LINE: AMY SOLOMON INTERVIEW
Titters: The First Collection of Humor by Women was a groundbreaking collection of essays, comics, and ephemera by the leading female comedians of the 1970s that included the likes of Gilda Radner, Candice Bergen, and Phyllis Diller. It pains us to report that there hasn’t been a similar collection of contemporary funny women published since […]
CALL YOURSELF A WRITER
I recently took part in a virtual author event with two other women writers. Let me say how much I have come to appreciate the magic of Zoom video conferencing, aside from not having a paid account which meant getting dumped off the call after forty minutes. No problem, everyone, including the audience, was able […]
Write Right… Right?
By Anju Gattani Writing is organized thinking. This little sentence comes after thirty years, countless rewrites of the Winds of Fire series, a former decade-long career as an international freelance journalist (as my husband and I hop-scotched across continents with two kids in tow) and working under the guidance and expertise of countless editors. Oh… […]
MY TWICE-TOLD TALE: WHY I WROTE GOOD NEIGHBORS, BAD TIMES REVISITED
By Mimi Schwartz When I was growing up Jewish in Queens, New York after World War II, I was taught that America was a Melting Pot. And if I jumped right in, I could be like everyone else—even if my parents, who were refugees from Hitler’s Germany, said ‘moder’ and ‘fader’ instead of ‘mother’ and […]
Kate Quinn interviews Osla, Mab, and Beth from THE ROSE CODE
“The reigning queen of historical fiction” — Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over. Kate Quinn […]
My Top Tips For Writing Historical Novels
By Mary Chamberlain As a historical novelist – and also a historian – I’m often asked for suggestions or advice so here are my top tips for writing historical novels… Tailor your research. What sort of a historical novel are you writing? Are you, like Hilary Mantel, using fiction to enter into historical debate, as […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Lisa Renee Jones
New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones brings a fresh, modern take to the thriller genre that will keep you guessing until the very end. Some call him friend or boss. Some call him husband or dad. Some call him son, even a favorite son. But the only title that matters to him is […]
A Conversation with Maddie Dawson on the Truest Thing About Writing
by Holly Robinson Here’s the truest thing about writing: Writers need each other. For instance, “Only another writer understands that sometimes you have no choice but to wake up in the middle of the night to write down three words,” says bestselling novelist Maddie Dawson, whose newest book, The Magic of Found Objects, will be published […]
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