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Write to Heal, Heal to Write
Write to heal, heal to write They tell you to write what you know. It’s a cliché but that’s what I’m doing – no matter how raw it is. The protagonist in my medical murder mystery series is a doctor (so am I). She also lives with bipolar disorder… It took a bit of guts […]
How Do You Know? On Dubious Faith And Intermittent Certainty In Writing
We eat with our eyes, the saying goes, but our eyes are unreliable gauges of appetite and we often order more than we want. We believe in science, we say, but I read somewhere recently that it is impossible to ‘believe’ in science, which is itself fact and thus requires no articles of faith. Actually. […]
Enter Writing Contests and Succeed
You polish your writing, imagining your audience. You read it over. Out loud. Does it say exactly what you want it to say? You have a friend read it to you. Impressed, she says, “You should submit this to contests. Put yourself out there. Get some recognition for your work.” Maybe you leap at the […]
WRITING WHAT’S TOUGH – from Trauma to Health
Move at the Speed of Trust, a friend painted in gold one Xmas – she said it was inspired by a Black Lives Matter credo – and that card has been on my inspirational shelf ever since. Beside it stands my homegrown motto: I choose health. Three years ago when agents and publishers started to […]
My Writing Life: Sunday Taylor
When the idea came to me for my novel, I remember racing to my computer and writing in a sort of frenzy. I wrote a few pages in this exhilarating state of mind, then closed my computer and went on with what I had been doing, probably cooking dinner. Reading what I had written the […]
How Arnold Schwarzenegger Helped Me Become A Bestselling Author
When I say that Total Recall – the *chef’s kiss* perfectly named memoir of Arnold Schwarzenegger – changed my life, people think I’m being ironic. I’m not. I’m being deadly serious. I’m pretty sure Total Recall was the first book I ever pre-ordered. Back in 2012, it was a whopping £9.99 on Kindle and there […]
The Process Of Writing Sweet Water
Thanks for having me! Today I’m discussing the process of writing Sweet Water, my domestic thriller released January 1st from Thomas & Mercer. The idea for Sweet Water started as a short story that I published in the Mindful Writers, Into the Woods anthology (2018), a compilation of short stories, poems and essays. The short […]
Writing Taint: A Novel, a necessary fiction
My book, Taint: A Novel, was published by Atmosphere Press in December, 2021. My first handwritten drafts were produced for a novel writing class with Ben Brooks at Emerson College in Boston. In the year 2006. You do the calculus. A wedding, a move from Indiana to Boston, a few houses, a move to Budapest, […]
An Interview with Pamela N. Harris
Pamela N. Harris was born and somewhat raised in Newport News, Virginia, also affectionately known as “Bad News.” A former school counselor by day, she received her bachelor’s in English and a master’s in school counseling at Old Dominion University, her M.F.A in creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and a Ph.D. in counselor education […]
Monsters Among Us: To Be Believed
To Be Believed I keep trying to remember the color of his eyes that night. I lean toward blue but that’s probably wrong. I remember I was wearing jeans. I think my shirt was pink. It’s been a while; my freshman year of college was nearly eleven years ago. I remember I’d had about a […]
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