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My Journey into the Sphere of Memoir
By Jane Little Botkin I picked up my nine-year-old grandson from school recently. After throwing his backpack onto the car’s floorboard while climbing into the seat simultaneously, he sighed. My cue. “How was school today?” Cam gave me a side glance. “I’m writing the story of my life, and it’s so hard.” “Why is it […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Emma Tourtelot
No One You Know by Emma Tourtelot (She Writes Press, January 2026) is a dual-narrative mother-daughter story about a family unraveling in the wake of a huge tragedy in a small town. Kirkus Reviews calls it, “An emotionally honest and captivating story about grief, family, and the stories we tell in this digital age.” NO […]
Vintage Writers by Kim Gottlieb-Walker
by Kim Gottlieb-Walker After fifty-plus-years working as a counterculture, rock, and movie set photographer, I reinvented myself as a novelist and released Lenswoman in Love – a novel of the 1960s & ‘70s in 2025 at age 78 – a reimagining my early career as a romance. And to my surprise, I discovered that I am […]
Moonlight Elk: One Woman’s Hunt for Food and Freedom: Excerpt
Christie Green recently released her memoir Moonlight Elk: One Woman’s Hunt for Food and Freedom. Christie Green learned to hunt in order to complement the food she grew in her New Mexico garden. As an act of practical agency this fulfilled her needs, yet a restlessness stirred within. A woman longing for a life defined […]
Writing Indestructible: Finding Strength in the Story I Tried to Forget
By Rose Barroso Not all of us have a dream childhood that we love to share with others or even talk about. Not all of us grew up behind a white picket fence, with bedtime stories and warm hugs waiting at the end of every day. Some of us grew up learning to survive before […]
Writing Swiftynomics
By Misty L. Heggeness It was the third or fourth call I had that week from reporters wanting to talk about the apparent mass exodus of mothers from the labor market. I was exhausted. I’d been sitting in my home office with my hair twisted up, no makeup, worn out sweatpants, and a keenly savvy […]
LONDON SOJOURN: Rewriting Life After Retirement by Rebecca Knuth, excerpt
LONDON SOJOURN: Rewriting Life After Retirement by Rebecca Knuth For fans of Eat, Pray, Love and Without Reservations, a captivating memoir of one woman’s bold leap into reinvention—trading academia for adventure, storytelling, and self-discovery in the heart of London. What happens when a burnt-out professor trades academia for a fresh start in the city of her dreams—only to […]
Character Interview of Emerson Clarke by Harper Ross
THE UNWRITTEN RULES OF MAGIC “Elegant and empathetic…Crisp prose, mature characters, and well-wrought emotional trials propel this introspective journey of self-discovery.” ~ Publishers Weekly The Unwritten Rules of Magic follows Emerson Clarke, a woman yearning for control amid a lifetime of familial chaos, who discovers that her late father’s forbidden vintage typewriter can make her […]
The Case for Self-Publishing, and Why It’s Easier Now Than Ever Before
By Katie Kormanik When I first started writing my memoir, Adventures of a Chess Girl: Into the Depths of the Chess World and Back Again, I dreamed of getting an agent and being published with a traditional publisher. This was my first serious book, and the journey of publishing it would be a grandiose project […]
The World I Built When I Couldn’t Go Home
By Stephanie Bosshard I never planned on wearing multiple creative hats. I simply followed the one thing that never left me – even when everything else was taken away: storytelling. Writing, acting, and building my own production company weren’t parts of some carefully mapped-out strategy. They were acts of survival, resilience, and ultimately, self-belief. For […]
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