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A Life Of Missteps Leads To First Book After Age 50
A pair of borrowed four-inch heels with black organza ruffles inspired me to write my book, Rules for the Southern Rulebreaker: Missteps and Lessons. Actually, falling off of those borrowed four-inch heels onto then President Barack Obama inspired me. Mishaps like this happened throughout my life and when I recounted them to friends, co-workers and […]
Why We Need To Tell More Than One Story About Any Culture
I remember the first time I watched Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED Talks, “The Danger of A Single Story.” It moved me and stayed with me for a long time. I had talked about this very issue to some of my friends but had never heard this point-of-view with such eloquence. When a big-name New York City-based agent expressed […]
My stroke of Fortune By Amy Maroney
I grew up in Northern California, in a family of bookworms. Every week I checked out the maximum number of books (five…so few!) from our local library. I wrote little fictional stories inspired by my favorite genres — fantasy, science fiction, mysteries. Maybe unconsciously, I sought out stories with strong, adventurous heroines. I was content […]
Does Writing Foster Self-Acceptance?
by Dorothy Rice The question gives me pause. It shouldn’t. I recently published Gray Is the New Black: A Memoir of Self-Acceptance (Otis Books, 2019). It’s right there in the subtitle. Yet as I sit on the couch sipping coffee and struggling to find the right words, I have a confession. The journey isn’t over. […]
Pantser, Plotter, Plantser and Everything in Between By Ashley R. King
We’ve all heard the terms pantser and plotter. Pantsers let the story take them where it may whereas plotters have a pretty good idea of where they want their story to go, possibly even outlining it with beat sheets. Then there are people like me, people who are a good mix of both, a plantser, […]
He Came In With It: Excerpt
When her son teenage Nick was diagnosed with schizophrenia, Miriam’s frenetic but happy life as an artist in Los Angeles was upended by one catastrophe after another: unexplainable violence, unanswered questions, endless disappointment, frustrations, and chaos. In her tireless search for help and answers, Miriam learns about the shocking shortfalls of our mental health system and […]
Interview – Karin Biggs, Author of The King’s 100
Sixteen-year-old Piper Parish, princess of the loveless, STEM-only kingdom of Capalon, is a disappointment to her citizens and to her older sister, the queen. When Piper receives an anonymous note stating her mother is still alive and living in the enemy kingdom of Mondaria, Piper chooses to risk death in effort to prove once […]
Write What You Know…Absolutely Nothing About
Do you ever get Paganini’s La Campanella stuck in your head? Are you addicted to Puccini operas? Do your hands feel achy after you play Rachmaninoff? My answers are no, hell no, and ha, very funny. To be honest, I know nothing about classical music. I have no ear for it, no cerebral mechanism to […]
Maintaining Steam As A Fulltime Author
“I only write when inspiration strikes. Fortunately, it strikes at nine every morning” This quote often attributed to William Faulkner has become a staple in my approach when building my fulltime career as an author. When I took the leap to follow my dream of becoming an author five years ago, I did so in […]
An interview with Luciana Ricciutelli, editor-in-chief of Inanna Publications, the oldest feminist literary press in Canada
An interview with Luciana Ricciutelli, editor-in-chief of Inanna Publications, the oldest feminist literary press in Canada. Interview by Jocelyn Cullity / Truman State University Luciana Ricciutelli has been the editor-in-chief at Inanna Publications in Toronto since 1992. Founded in 1978 with the goal of making current writing on a wide variety of feminist topics accessible to […]
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