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An Interview with Judy Stone, MD, author of RESILIENCE
Dr. Stone is the daughter of Hungarian Holocaust survivors. Her book RESILIENCE is a study in human contrasts: kindness and callousness, tolerance and hatred, humanity and cruelty. During World War II, hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews suffered prejudice and discrimination, oppressive segregation, and wholesale murder at the hands of the Nazis. But like the flower that grows […]
From Ex-Satanist to Daydreams: My Writing Journey
The inspiration for PIVOT came from multiple areas of my life, the most prominent being that a friend of mine in high school who was – at least at that time – a Lutheran, invited me to come to a special event her church was having, where an “ex-Satanist” came and spoke about her experiences […]
The Process—Wind Beneath My Wings
I have been like a bird gathering twigs and oddities for her nest since I was eleven years old. Nothing told me that I was beginning the process of writing a book. Nothing told me to do it, and nothing tipped me off that one day I would be an author, but as I stood […]
Writing as Resistance: How Politics Shaped The Devil’s Revolver
By V.S. McGrath When I started dreaming up The Devil’s Revolver, sometime around 2010, all I wanted to do was tell a fun adventure story—a fantasy set in a world that wasn’t a stand-in for feudal-era Europe. At the time, I was playing the video game Red Dead Redemption and thought, why not the Wild […]
Online Writing Classes: She Writes University
WHAT IS SHE WRITES UNIVERSITY? She Writes University is the only online, live webinar-based writing program featuring online educational webinars by bestselling and award-winning authors, backed by a community of nearly 33,000 female writers. Attend these classes live online, or view the recordings whenever you can. The Fall 2019 semester features an exciting lineup of female […]
For Women Only?
I recently served on a panel to discuss the topic, “For Women Only,” at the Killer Nashville writers’ conference. It gave me a chance to think about how things have and haven’t changed for women writers in general, and women mystery writers, specifically. We’ve come a long way from the day when Mary Ann Evans […]
About Spinoffs—or Just Call Me Shirley by Liz Flaherty
About Spinoffs—or Just Call Me Shirley by Liz Flaherty I’m deep into promotion for The Healing Summer, my…I don’t know…severaleth book, and a question I’m asked on every review site and in every interview is Is this book part of a series? I’m embarrassed to admit I’m not sure I’ve mastered its answer. So I […]
Researching Historical Fiction: Immersing Oneself in the Past
When I decided to write a story set in the 16th century, I knew that a lot of research lay ahead. It actually turned out to be a whole year of research. I studied monarchs and dates of wars, major events and conflicts, and of course the central subject of the book: witchcraft accusations. But […]
Nevertheless, She Persisted
A gluttonous reader since childhood, I have always wanted to write. The first time I dropped out of school I took a typewriter to a Caribbean island to write the great American novel. I didn’t do it, but I read Middlemarch, Tristram Shandy, and Moby Dick. I wrote a few short stories as my son […]
Making Peace with Your ‘One-Star’
Reviews are one of the many details no one seems to mention on the long and arduous journey to publication. I’m not talking trade reviews, which can be grand, tepid, or disappointing, but typically not down-in-the-gutter mean. I’m talking about individual reviews on Amazon and Goodreads that, depending on the word choice, can smack an […]
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