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The Antidote for Us Versus Them
Hoax! On my screen was what looked like a painted daguerreotype family portrait from an era when people lived in hand-hewn log cabins, raised shoats, and wore dresses sewn from potato sacks, but what made this portrait surely a work of trickery was the color of the complexion of five family members: bright, shocking, no-doubt-about-it […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Angela Barton
Angela Barton interviews her character Arlette Blaise, the main character of her novel ARLETTE’S STORY. Arlette’s story takes place in the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane during WWII. The SS Panzer Division Das Reich, destroyed it during WWII and today it is preserved In a Ruined State. (find out more here) About Arlette’s Story: One woman’s struggle […]
When Writing Flows (Or Doesn’t!) by Phaedra Patrick
Before I got a publishing deal for my novels, I had an image in my head of what writers did all day and how they looked. They wore a satin robe, drank copious amounts of wine and often smoked long slim cigarettes. They lived in their heads, in a kind of serene wonderland where magical […]
An Intangible Legacy By Meera Ekkanath Klein
An Intangible Legacy By Meera Ekkanath Klein My family’s past is shrouded in legend, myth and history. That’s because my lineage comes from the ancient matrilineal tradition, once prevalent in the southern state of Kerala in India. Now, it is a fading memory, barely remembered. The origin of this venerable tradition is the stuff of […]
Unexpected Friendship: Barbara Monier
In my fourth novel, The Rocky Orchard, the bulk of the book centers around the unlikely friendship between two women – one young and the other elderly. The book’s lead character Mazie stands on the porch of her family’s second home in the mountains of rural Pennsylvania the morning after she has arrived there. Awash […]
My Top 7 Memoir-Writing Lessons
Writing memoir is a tricky thing. Memoirists, like me, find real-life images to describe weaving life events into the story of our lives. For the seamstress, it’s like fashioning fabric; for the potter, molding a lump of clay into something recognizable; for the builder, it’s construction from the foundation. As a former Mennonite, my history […]
I Can’t Breathe…
Hendrika de Vries is the author of When a Toy Dog Became a Wolf and the Moon Broke Curfew: a memoir about her childhood in Nazi-occupied WWII Amsterdam. “I can’t breathe…” “I can’t breathe” whispered George Floyd as a white man in authority put his knee on his neck and crushed him to death. “I can’t breathe” […]
Writing About the Environment for Teens
By Tracy Richardson, author of The Field (April, 2019), Catalyst (June, 2020) and Indian Summer (Sept., 2020) I’m a science geek. Everything about the natural world engages and amazes me. From observing a snail inching a slick path on a rotten stump during one of my hikes, to contemplating the vastness of the unknowable Universe, […]
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo
JoAnn Wypijewski’s book What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo: Essays on Sex, Authority & the Mess of Life is just out from Verso. Maybe there is no good time to put out a collection, but this seems to be the worst of times—unless one has been writing about contagion, public health, […]
How to Co-Write a Novel and Remain Friends
One day while walking with an author friend we had an idea for a story with dual protagonists. Why not write it together? Kristy Tate, a USA Today bestselling romance author and I decided to co-write a women’s fiction novel a year ago. This was our logic: She writes romance. I write suspense. That’s the […]
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