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Faking Insanity: Writing The Novel
Back in the days when I was first sitting down to write my novel, I’d read anything I could get my hands on that described how an author first got published. I was immediately drawn in, looking for clues how the author “made it.” I wanted to know the essence of that experience. I wanted […]
The Men & Boys of Sybelia Drive
by Karin Cecile Davidson A friend’s introduction to Tim Hetherington’s photographs of American soldiers asleep in their bunks in Afghanistan led me to thinking about the men and boys of my novel Sybelia Drive. I’d spent so much time thinking of this book in terms of the narratives of the women and girls that I […]
The Makings Of A Wolf Den Hollow
Essay by Donna Murray Growing up as a child, I lived vicariously through my grandmother . . . a Native American Cherokee. I never knew or met her, but from the time I was born, her blood ran through me. I was a war baby, born during World War II, and lived on a farm […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Mary Helen Sheriff, author of Boop and Eve’s Road Trip
Authors Interviewing Characters: Mary Helen Sheriff, author of Boop and Eve’s Road Trip “…a heartwarming trek through the South as grandmother and granddaughter uncover secrets held for generations as well as confront family issues, all while having a little fun…A touching intergenerational romp…” —Kirkus Reviews Boop and Eve’s Road Trip by Mary Helen Sheriff is a […]
My Tiger: Living With Anxiety
Living with anxiety is like sharing a house with a tiger. Going about my daily business pretending it’s not there is not only pointless, it’s guaranteed to result in damage. Inevitably, something I do agitates the tiger and it bites. Growing up with undiagnosed anxiety meant nobody around me acknowledged the tiger, so I thought […]
A Long And Winding Roller Coaster
By Daisy Bateman I thought I had experienced everything publishing could throw at me. Then 2020 showed up and said, “Hold my beer.” My first book is being published this year. Not the first book I wrote, which was begun longhand in a loose leaf binder, sitting on the lawn outside my college dorm. Not […]
All In
My first book, Poetic License-A Memoir, was released in August. Publication day culminated a twenty-year quest to figure out who my father was to me over our long and complex relationship and to better define myself outside the shadow of his literary fame. The manuscript had been threaded through two full decades of my life, […]
10 Published Authors Share Their Best Writing Advice
By Marissa DeCuir The writer’s life can be creatively fulfilling and packed with possibility — and it can also be arduous, frustrating, and downright lonely. Sometimes you just need another writer friend (or ten!) who gets it, has been there, and can give you that little bit of encouragement or great piece of advice that […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Heidi McCrary, Chasing North Star
Chasing North Star is a story centered around a band of siblings as they tackle the challenge of surviving a mentally unstable mother. The story takes place in 1970, back when cars had ashtrays and kids were free-range. While the novel is narrated by the youngest, who was nine at the time, it also features […]
A Psychologist Models Self-Therapy Through Writing
By Dr. Nancy Farber Kent Writing. Writing is a tool we can use to discover the solutions to our problems. I write, write, write my way to my answers. When feeling angry, afraid, sad, frustrated, lonely, I just start writing…and the answers come. From my experience, I have discovered that when we write, we unlock […]
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