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Five Tips To Help You Write A Novel About Anything
By Gila Green Novels are peppered with males and females, young and old, witches, aliens, and murderers. Yet many writers still feel limited to topics they know inside and out. What a great pity. I published a young adult novel about a teen heroine who takes on an elephant poaching ring in South Africa’s Kruger […]
Fulfilling A Special Wish
I grew up in Islington during the 1970s. when most parents would spend their time in the pub, dragging their kids along and sitting them outside with a bottle of coke and a bag of crisps. They would tell you to behave, then they would emerge five hours later and you had to try and […]
What I Learned on Submission By Diane Barnes
I recently learned that my novel MORE THAN will be published on October 29, 2019. I cried big, ugly tears of joy when I received the news. It’s my third book, and I have never been that emotional about a release before. For a long time, I feared this novel would live in my bottom […]
Thirteen Things I Learned From Owning A Bookstore
Recently, my husband, Peter and I sold our beloved bookstore, The Writers’ Workshoppe and Imprint Books in Port Townsend to another couple who love books as much as we do. Now that I’ve had time to catch my breath a bit, I’d like to share a few things I’ve learned over the last twelve years […]
Love Female Characters in Crime fiction? Thank the History of Women in Noir
Grief takes people in different ways. Mrs. Allynson’s had moved her to change her chalk-stripe costume for a soft, blue housedress that fitted in her waist, fell loose along her arms and clung from her hips down. The blue was livened by a string of cut stones of a lighter shade, a dark silk flower […]
The Realism in Romance by Karen King
Romance novels are often dismissed as sheer escapism, derided as emotional pipe dreams, unrealistic fantasy with weak heroines, impossibly handsome heroes in formulaic plots that always end in an unrealistic happy ever after. As an author of eight romantic novels, and a reader of many more, I strongly disagree with this assumption, often made by […]
THE LIFE AND LOVES OF E. NESBIT
Edith Nesbit is considered the inventor of the children’s adventure story and her brilliant children’s books influenced bestselling authors including C.S. Lewis, P. L. Travers, J.K. Rowling, and Jacqueline Wilson, to name but a few. But who was the person behind the best loved classics The Railway Children and Five Children and It? Eleanor Fitzsimons, acclaimed biographer and […]
Irrational Yelling: The Inspiration for Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes
By Kathleen West When I began writing MINOR DRAMAS & OTHER CATASTROPHES, I was in my fifteenth year of classroom teaching, a job I love. In fact, I never deviated in my desire to become a teacher since first having an inkling at age eleven. I idolized my teachers and coaches, desperately wanted to please […]
Introducing Art In Fiction
INTRODUCING ART IN FICTION A New Literary Website Developed by Carol M. Cram Author of a trilogy of historical novels about women in the arts I’m thrilled to announce the launch of Art In Fiction (www.artinfiction.com), a new website for lovers of novels inspired by the arts. I’ve created Art In Fiction as a literary […]
Thoughts On A Fictional Memoir
Trying to identify the source of one’s creativity is like trying to count the stars – an impossible task. However, I believe most authors can pinpoint exactly what inspired them to begin a story, fiction or nonfiction, and I can say with certainty that my novel, Katy’s Ghost, was inspired by my paternal grandmother. Gram […]
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