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TOWARD THAT WHICH IS BEAUTIFUL: EXCERPT
TOWARD THAT WHICH IS BEAUTIFUL On an ordinary day in June of 1964 in a small town in the Altiplano of Peru, Sister Mary Katherine (formerly known as Kate), a young American nun recently arrived in this very foreign place, walks away from her convent with no money and no destination. Desperate and afraid of […]
Writing And Research: On Wilder Seas
Nikki Marmery is the author of On Wilder Seas, a historical novel inspired by the true story of Maria, the woman who sailed on the Golden Hind during Francis Drake’s circumnavigation voyage in 1579. I first read about Maria in a popular history book, seven years ago. Though details about her life are scarce, she […]
Writing Challenges: Part II of III: Time Out of (Your) Mind
Writing Challenges: Part II of III (read part one HERE) Management of time within the long-form narrative is always tricky, and it has continually proved a challenging task for me — and never more so than with my novel Once Again. The story was inspired by a dream I had in which my husband and […]
Character Interview – Crystal King
Character Interview – Crystal King About The Chef’s Secret When Bartolomeo Scappi dies in 1577, he leaves his vast estate—properties, money, and his position—to his nephew and apprentice Giovanni. He also gives Giovanni the keys to two strongboxes and strict instructions to burn their contents. Despite Scappi’s dire warning that the information concealed in those […]
Writing and Receiving Reviews
Indie authors have a lot to learn about how to make their book visible to the wide world of readers and it takes time, lots of research, and some money. A first step was to post my book on Goodreads, hoping for reviews there. To encourage followers I was urged to review a few books myself. […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Carol M. Cram
Carol M. Cram is the author of Love Among the Recipes in which cookbook author Genna McGraw takes off for Paris to write a crossover cookbook/guidebook, while also picking up the pieces of her shattered marriage. Carol’s other novels include three award-winning works of historical fiction about women in the arts: The Towers of Tuscany […]
Q and A With Ann Lambert, The Dogs of Winter
The Dogs of Winter (Second Story Press, October 28th 2020) is a compelling story full of hot button Canadian topics pulled from the headlines. Locations in this murder-mystery are personal to author Ann Lambert who taught at Dawson College across the street from where much of the action takes place and saw what went on every […]
Driving Through the Hills of Birmingham
When it was first suggested to me that there might be a connection between my work as an artist and my work as a writer, I was taken aback. I’d kept the two activities entirely separate, throwing myself entirely into either one or the other at any given time. Until I realised that I ponder […]
Excerpt from DEATHWALKER -Journeys of Life, Death & Beyond
Excerpt from “DEATHWALKER-Journeys of Life, Death & Beyond” by Theresa Dominguez-Weiss, Family Nurse Practitioner, retired (copyright 2020) “Near-Death on the Nile” Surrounded by desert, smack in the middle of nowhere, Jackie was suffocating to death. Lying on a table, her knees bent, legs spread wide, I wondered, “Why does this remind me of all the […]
Silence Did Not Stop Me
Silence Did Not Stop Me Terry Sue Harms After writing a novel, I thought writing a memoir was going to be less challenging. Not easy, but I couldn’t imagine how a story that I already knew could possibly be more difficult to tell than the one I had made up. After all, I understood the […]
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