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Unforgettable Endings: Finishing Your Novel
What part of writing your novel challenges you most? For some it is deciding where to begin or how to establish the characters and setting. And who hasn’t struggled with getting rig of slog in the center? But a challenge all writers have in common is bringing it all to a conclusion. After spending countless […]
Inspiration Behind Heir To Malla
I was the girl who had her nose in a book throughout childhood. It all started with my grandmother’s stories. I spent a few weeks every summer at my grandparents, and she would regale me with stories during mealtimes. She was a remarkable storyteller and would weave a beautiful tapestry of mythological tales and mighty […]
Art And Science: Two Sides Of The Same Coin
Annette Libeskind Berkovits It was the poetic randomness of the cosmos that threw me into a terrifying whirl on November 12, 2014. My perfectly healthy adult son suffered a devastating hemorrhagic stroke. I had to do everything in my power to keep myself from falling apart. Sitting for hours in waiting rooms and hospital corridors […]
Telling the Story That Haunts You
Telling the Story That Haunts You I told my first ghost story in the fall of 2015 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the annual Women’s Fiction Writers Association Retreat. I was embarrassed at first, because the truth was, I believed it. I really did. I heard them. I saw them. At a writing workshop run […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: Ellen Alpsten Interviews Tsarina
Lover, murder, mother, Tsarina. Memoirs of a Geisha meets Game of Thrones in this page-turning epic charting the untold story – the extraordinary rags-to-riches tale of Catherine I Spring 1699: Illegitimate, destitute and strikingly beautiful, Marta has survived the brutal Russian winter in her remote Baltic village. Sold by her family into household labour at […]
Making It to the Finish Line
Making It to the Finish Line Laura Moe Shortly after my first novel was released, I served on a panel at a writing conference and was asked, “What is the key to your success?” “I finished it,” I replied. I’ve never suffered from writer’s block. Every day I’ll write 250-1000 words as naturally as I […]
Finding Writing Inspiration When You’re Stuck at Home
By Krysten Lindsay Hager Writers are always looking for things to be inspired by whether it’s a beautiful piece of artwork, music, or even overhearing a conversation that triggers a story idea. Okay, so that last one is basically eavesdropping, but I’ve gotten some of my best bits of dialogue by strangers talking loudly near […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Carol Van Den Hende
If you like heart-wrenching romances and magnanimous heroes, then you’ll love this emotionally-charged story. For fans of Me Before You and Fault in Our Stars, Goodbye, Orchid (a winner of Pinnacle Book Award for multicultural fiction) asks… “What choice does a wounded hero have when loving his woman means breaking his own heart?” Thirty-two year-old Phoenix Walker is an […]
Excerpt from THE STILLNESS OF WINTER by Barbara Mahany
From the front pages of The Chicago Tribune and her revered page-two columns to her sought-after blog, Pull Up a Chair, Barbara Mahany has shared stories of her family’s life that have drawn in thousands of readers for decades. In her new elegantly illustrated gift book, THE STILLNESS OF WINTER: Sacred Blessings of the Season (Abingdon Press Hardcover; October 6, 2020; $19.99), Barbara […]
Finding A Small Press for My Debut Novel
Finding A Small Press for My Debut Novel After my debut novel was passed on by mainstream publishers and it became clear my agent could do no more for me, we amicably parted ways. But I wasn’t about to put this baby, which represented years of my writing life, into my desk drawer. I was […]
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