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Meet The Author: Clare Empson
What was the inspiration behind HIM? Eleven years ago we moved from South London to the country. We were renting on this picturesque country estate and it was almost absurdly idyllic – day old lambs gambolling on the drive and a parkland full of deer. Friends would arrive with gifts of freshly laid eggs […]
From the Queen of Broken to King Unveiled
I was broken. Not my heart, but my mind, my spirit. My two greatest assets, the things I’d always been able to call upon, had failed me. The ledge of sanity loomed just overhead, a daily offering of hope, but I had no strength to reach for it, no assurance that even if I did, […]
How to Write About a Marriage Crisis and Keep the Marriage
The Buddha Sat Right Here chronicles the year I tore off my Supermom cape, shuttered the house, and took my husband and young daughters on an eight month odyssey through India and Nepal. Why did I do that, you ask? I had become too stressed-out by working motherhood to appreciate the precious beauty of my […]
Moments That Mattered: Excerpt
In Moments that Mattered (Page Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-64462-434-0) author Pamela Hull writes stories of ordinary experiences that were passed over or dismissed but in recall hold clues to lifetime behaviors, attitudes and choices. The span of our lives. Within each segment are disparate, illustrative stories of routine, everyday occurrences. Insignificant at the time, they eventually proved to be life-altering […]
The making of The Fortune Teller and Other Short Works by Nanette L. Avery
Inspiration comes to us when we least expect it. Its provocation can erupt suddenly as if fallen from the night sky while we wander the stars, realized in the chemistry lab mixing and measuring, or found while listening to the roar of Niagara Falls. As unique as a one’s fingerprints or as communal as […]
How a Teenage Fantasy Became a Wartime Novel
As a steamy adolescent growing up in rural Herefordshire, I was gripped by the story of Franz von Werra, the only German POW to escape from British captivity during the Second World War. My fascination with the story had great deal to do with the German actor who played von Werra in the film The […]
When Tourists Come Home
Children do not get to pick the cities they are brought up in. They arrive as strangers and are responsible for making themselves at home. But what makes a city home? In the late 1980s my family returned to Lahore, Pakistan from Saudi Arabia and our status changed from that of summer tourists simply looking […]
Excerpt from Beautiful Justice: Reclaiming My Worth After Human Trafficking and Sexual Abuse by Brooke Axtell
A story of healing and a guide to seeking justice after sexual abuse from Brooke Axtell, one of the foremost survivor experts on sexual assault, domestic violence, and human trafficking When Brooke Axtell was seven years old, her nanny subjected her to sex trafficking. Today, she is a champion and advocate for women around the […]
A Home of Her Own – How Jane Austen Found the Space to Write
One of the most frequent questions I get as a writer is “Where do you find the time to write?” quickly followed by “Do you have a routine or are you able to write anywhere?” I can always tell when a harried writer is asking, someone who is struggling to fit writing into his or […]
The Story Behind Gill Thompson’s Debut Novel: The Oceans Between Us
I wasn’t expecting the phone conversation to be easy. The voice at the other end was ten thousand miles away. And it belonged to an eighty-six-year-old woman. I anticipated static… mumbling… confusion. But when the call came, the speaker could have been next door. And there was nothing confused about Joan Thorpe. She remembered the […]
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