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Excerpt of The Nun’s Bethrothal
The Nun’s Betrothal “It is refreshing to see a tale achieve such titillating, erotic heights without resorting to a more unabashed, not to say lurid, style, a sign of the author’s novelistic subtlety…..An engaging love story, historically captivating and romantically gripping.” –Kirkus Reviews Set in ninth-century France, just before taking her vows, Sister Gilda, along with […]
Writing Fast Girls
One of the most frequently asked questions I field from readers is “Where do you find your ideas and how do you turn them into books?” Honestly, there’s no special magic fairy dust for this. Having an idea for a story and then turning that idea into a book requires discipline, curiosity, patience, not to […]
Where I find the spark: Janet Hoggarth
Every book or article I have ever written has sprung from something else entirely. Several other ideas can be on the boil at the same time before I finally commit to writing a specific book. I will have written their rough synopsis (I never know the ending just the general direction), delved into the characters’ […]
Winter Of The Wolf
BY MARTHA HUNT HANDLER I was born and raised in rural northern Illinois. With few neighbors and two older brothers who had little interest in me, I spent a good deal of my time wandering alone in the woodlands that surrounded my home. Except I was never really alone because I could hear flora and […]
Tips On Writing A Synopsis
Tips on writing a synopsis You can write the synopsis either before you write your novel, or after, but as I’m sure you are aware, you really should not submit fiction to an agent or publisher until the entire novel is written. Before giving tips on the nuts and bolts of writing the synopsis, it’s […]
Road To Publication: Zoë Sharp
Zoë Sharp I have been in this writing game long enough to have started out in an entirely analogue world. When I wrote my very first novel there was no internet, no social media, no email, no mobile phones, and precious little by way of computerisation. (I should point out here that I was only […]
Unusual Inspiration
When you think of inspiration, what are your initial thoughts? Could it have something to do with your muse, creativity or perhaps you think of something far more abstract and intangible? Whatever the inspiration; it’s often the universal question asked of writers, artists, designers, photographers, filmmakers, performers, musicians…in fact, anyone who is creating any form […]
Research In A Latex Dress
Merge “The Big Short” & “50 Shades” by way of “Billions,” but give the women the whips and make the men submit, and you get Jane Boon’s new novel “EDGE PLAY.” Jane tells us all about her inspiration and research! There was no class called “The Novel” at the engineering school I attended in the […]
On Inspiration
What Inspires Writers? Some authors publish two or more novels a year; others publish just one in a lifetime. Margaret Mitchell’s one-time Gone With the Wind comes to mind, in contrast to Karen Ranney, one of my favorite romance authors, who has written over fifty novels. Do these two types of author write differently? […]
MUSCLE MEMORY: Excerpt
Places I’ve Taken My Body by Molly McCully Brown s a collection of essays about the author’s personal struggles with cerebral palsy, and her evolving understanding of the intersection between her physical body and that intangible other that she has come to call the soul. Molly is known for her award-winning poetry collection, The Virginia […]
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