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Inspired to Write by Inspiring Kids
A month ago, a friend shared home videos of her young daughter, born with cerebral palsy and wheelchair-bound, proudly walking on a treadmill. I replayed the video repeatedly. Watching every step, repeatedly. Her pride and joy shined in every movement. This little dazzling girl also plays special hockey. In another video, you can hear the […]
Editing and Revising–With Mindfulness
A term used for a particular stage in Buddhist meditation practice, Mindfulness is referred to as sati, a form of remembering, perhaps suggestive of “memoir” which also derives from “remembering”. In a state of Mindfulness, the meditating individual checks in with herself to just listen and see, in order to reconnect with her mind and […]
Writing As an Act of Resistance
The first poet I ever met in person was the singer/songwriter, Phil Ochs. I was in eighth grade and had been taking guitar lessons on Tuesdays after school with his sister Sonny for about a year when I arrived early one winter afternoon, and the famed troubadour answered her door. “Sonny’s not home yet,” he […]
Everyday Magic
One of the questions I get asked most often is where I get my ideas from. The response “everywhere” tends to be met with baffled bemusement. But as an urban fantasy author, my mind is forever straddling the thin line between magic and mundane. There are times when I’m completely oblivious to my surroundings, lost […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Patti Callahan
AUTHOR PATTI CALLAHAN INTERVIEWS HER CHARACTER JOY DAVIDMAN BECOMING MRS. LEWIS is an exquisite novel of Joy Davidman, the woman C.S. Lewis called “my whole world.” At once, it is a fascinating novel and a glimpse into a writer’s life, but the book is above all a love story — a love of literature and […]
The Myth of Perfect Writing Locations by Erica Wright
I’ve never seen our neighborhood owl, but I can hear him from time to time, often when I least expect him. It can be the middle of the day and suddenly he starts calling, announcing himself to the community. It’s such a peaceful sound to come from an apex predator, and I wonder what this […]
Books Forward Launches Helpline To Assist Readers In Downloading Books
NEW ORLEANS, La. — With libraries and many bookstores closing physical locations for quarantine and Amazon suspending nonessential shipments, book lovers who prefer physical copies are faced with a dilemma of how to get their next great read. Not everyone is familiar with how to access ebooks and audiobooks, and figuring this out can […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Allison Ashley interviews Lauren Taylor
Contemporary romance author Allison Ashley interviews Lauren Taylor, an oncology pharmacist who, in her novel PERFECT DISTRACTION, inconveniently falls for a patient receiving chemotherapy at the cancer center where she works. Allison: Thanks for agreeing to chat with me today. I brought extra coffee, want one? Lauren: Definitely, thanks. I never say no to coffee. […]
Gardening And Writing
I live on a smidge more than quarter of an acre, and over the years I have planted about ten trees, a dozen shrubs, countless perennials, herbs, vegetables, and fruits. Some of these gardening experiments turned out brilliantly – the wispy stick of a birch stuck in the ground the fall we moved in is […]
All The Light, All The Love
This wonderful piece by Ann-Marie Nieves appeared earlier this week on WRITERUNBOXED We are very grateful to be able to repost it here! I intended to write about new marketing communications strategies I’ve seen in the book world these days, but given the current pandemic and its impact on our industry, I’m going to pivot […]
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