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Sherri Rosen interviews Deborah Gaal about her novel, Synchronicities on the Avenue of the Saints
Sherri Rosen interviews Deborah Gaal about her novel, Synchronicities on the Avenue of the Saints Sherri Rosen: What is the book Synchronicities on the Avenue of the Saints about? Deborah Gaal: In the novel’s prologue a shaman tells a woman she must write a story to please the ancestors. What kind of story?” she asks. The shaman answers, […]
Why I Wrote A Horse Book
The answer isn’t as simple as “Because you love horses.” While it’s part of the answer, it doesn’t tell the whole story. It was May 2018. I had just submitted my semester grades as a psychology instructor teaching a subject and students I adored. However, a few days later, without any warning, my teaching contract […]
On Writing Api’s Berlin Diaries
Imagine if you found out that someone you loved had a dark past. That happened to author Gabrielle Robinson, as she tried to reconcile the grandfather she knew with his complex past in her memoir Api’s Berlin Diaries (She Writes Press, September 15, 2020). After her mother’s death, Robinson found two diaries her grandfather had […]
Writing The More The Merrier – Celebrating Seventy
I love a project. When I turned seventy I thought I’d take a deeper look at my life and at what aging might look like. I’ve kept journals for thirty-five years, mostly because I believe in keeping track of both family history and history in the wider sense. I like to think that my words […]
The Power Of The Tiara
With two previous posts in WWWB in 2020 about Kathy L. Murphy’s International Pulpwood Queens Girlfriends Weekend, I’m not here to repeat all of the somewhat unbelievable details of this annual book extravaganza … all of which are in fact true, by the way! Rather, I am here to attest that no pandemic was going […]
Sylvia True Talks About the Heritage of Madness
Where Madness Lies by Sylvia True will be published by John Hunt Publishing on January 31st 2021 and is based on her own Grandmothers experiences in Nazi Germany with strong mental health, human survival and spiritual experiences. When families pretend all is right, nothing ever is. The inside didn’t match the outside. My childhood home […]
How Writing Fiction about Love and Healing Embraced Me in The Warmest Hug and Forever Changed me as a Writer
When I was ten years old, I first thought in a serious way that I wanted to be a writer. I tried writing a novel at the time—an epic love story between wounded people who help each other heal. Because I was ten, it didn’t pan out. Eventually, I became a full-time writer, but other […]
The Research That Brought The Good Doctor Of Warsaw To Life
Dr Janusz Korczak was a children’s doctor and educator who lived and worked in Poland between the wars, beloved for his children’s books and his advice to parents on the Polish radio. I first came across him some 15 years ago when I heard some of his quotes at a teacher’s conference. The wisdom of […]
Why I Turned Away From Realism and Began to Write Surreal Fiction
My writing has taken an unexpected turn in the last few years. I’ve begun to incorporate elements of the surreal—what some might term fantastical or magical realist—into what would otherwise be realistic novels. My 2018 novel, Weather Woman, for example, tells the story of a woman who discovers she has the power to change the weather; she […]
A Fascinating New World By Allie Reynolds
By Allie Reynolds Robert McKee, in his iconic book Story writes: “We go to the movies to enter a new, fascinating world, to inhabit vicariously another human being who at first seems so unlike us and yet at heart is like us, to live in a fictional reality that illuminates our daily reality.” It’s one […]
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