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This Parisian Life
Every morning in Paris I walk my dog across the Seine and look up river. On the horizon stands the Notre Dame Cathedral, until recently the spire pointing to the sky. In my mind’s eye she looms larger in the vista than she does in real life but that is surely due to her outsized […]
Writing and the Arts as Therapy
I remember the day in eighth grade when our teacher, Mr. Johnson, stood in front of the class and called us to attention. “This is the best piece of student writing I have come across in my twenty-two years of teaching,” he told us. Our homework that night was to write an essay. What he […]
Getting to Know my Characters
I’ve always been interested in who people really are and the darker side of human nature. I love creating characters; thinking about what makes them tick. It fascinates me. When an author friend of mine, Nicci Cloke, (who also writes under the name Phoebe Locke) recommended a service called Characters on the Couch run by […]
The Woman In The Dark
I grew up in a small Gloucestershire village – back then, there were only four channels on the telly and as a teenager there was nothing to do and nowhere to go. My nearest library was ten miles away, my nearest bookshop twenty. I was never one of the hanging-round-on street-corner kids, I preferred to […]
My Journey To Publication: Anita Frank
Like most would-be writers, I have dreamt of being an author since I was a child. I had my first stab at getting published in my late teens when, encouraged by their open submissions policy, I sent a couple of truly awful romances to Mills and Boon. They were, of course, both promptly rejected, but […]
How Grief Changed My Reading
Books have been my companions since childhood. The books, the stories, the characters all woven into my life. When my days had been full of people and when I’ve been alone. I grew up with my nose forever in a book. I was in Great Books in elementary school, majored in English Literature in college, […]
Not Our Grandmother’s 70
By Jayne Martin If someone had told me when I was 30, that I would be publishing my first book of short fiction at the age of 70, undoubtedly I would have smirked and said, “From where? A rocker at the old folks’ home?” Only the young can be so cocky. In all fairness, at age […]
How to Market a Backlisted Book
Diana Y. Paul, author of Things Unsaid Once buzz of a new book has died down, there’s nothing you can do to market that book except publish the next one. Is that the myth you’ve accepted? You can continue marketing a book effectively to reach new readers well after its release date. Think of how […]
The Catharsis of Memoir Writing by Beth Ruggiero York
by Beth Ruggiero York Author of Flying Alone: A Memoir It takes courage to write a memoir. Sort of like going to confession if you are Catholic. If you want absolution, you must admit to all the stupid things you’ve done. Similarly, if you want to sell your story, you must bare your moments of […]
Rediscovering Writing After Publication
As a child, when asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I never said firefighter or ballerina or astronaut. I wanted to be a writer. In college, and when I first started writing seriously in my twenties, I loved the world that writing created. When I was writing, or thinking about writing, […]
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