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Publish a Book, Lose a Friend by Laura Bonazzoli
By Laura Bonazzoli We shared everything. Over bowls of thick soup in our favorite café, we’d swap recipes and healthcare tips and stories: her father’s drinking, my father’s rage, our siblings who’d died too young, the misogyny we’d had to overcome. And we were both writers. I’d published more— academic and technical works, dozens of […]
Life as a WIP
By Nancie Abuhaidar WIP: abbreviation for work in progress or process: a piece of work or a product that has been begun but is not finished or ready –Cambridge Dictionary In the work in progress that is my life, it feels like I’m living the boggy middle of a first draft, a fact echoed literally in my current project. Since I self-published my debut, I’ve been working on the next […]
What Virginia Woolf Taught Me
In my mid-century memoir, Cold War in a Hot Kitchen, I relate that when my mother went back to university to study for a master’s degree, my father refused to let her talk about it. He was embarrassed, he said. It was pretentious for his wife to pursue a graduate degree, when so many of […]
How My Book Tour Became Part of My Healing as a Writer
By Heidi Yewman My book tour turned out to be far more than a series of events; it became an unexpected chapter in my own healing. I launched my memoir, Dumb Girl, on August 19th. It almost didn’t happen. Six days before the launch, my brother—whose sexual abuse I wrote about in the book—sent a cease-and-desist […]
Responsibility From Within: When You’re Bosnian, But Not a Survivor
By Amra Pajalic My historical mystery novel Time Kneels Between Mountains is about a young girl surviving under siege and was completed as part of a PhD in Creative Writing. As an author I sit uneasily between insider and outsider: being Bosnian, yet not a genocide survivor. I lived in Bosnia as a child from […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Sarah Monzon interviews librarian Hayley Holt
HEARTS IN CIRCULATION Can a rundown bookmobile be the vehicle that brings two unlikely hearts together? Little Creek’s bookmobile is more of a death trap on wheels than a vehicle of literary delights, and circulation librarian Hayley Holt is afraid it’s going to careen down a mountainside with her in it. Yet she sees it […]
A Weekend on Allyson Island by Susannah B. Lewis: Excerpt
A Weekend on Allyson Island They’ve come for a birthday celebration . . . but they’ll leave celebrating themselves. Moira Allyson is going all out for her 50th birthday. The planning part is easy–in her big, beautiful mansion set on Savannah’s waterfront, perfect parties practically plan themselves. She’ll serve the region’s finest cuisine, offer delicious […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Connie Berry
A GRAVE DECEPTION Antiques expert Kate Hamilton dives into the past to solve a fourteenth-century mystery with disturbing similarities to a modern-day murder in the sixth installment of the Kate Hamilton mystery series. Kate Hamilton and her husband, Detective Inspector Tom Mallory, have settled into married life in Long Barston. When archaeologists excavating the ruins […]
Midwifing The Writer
By Sarah Branson The contractions wake her just after midnight. At first, she just feels niggly little cramps waking her every few minutes, keeping her from deep sleep. Eager to have the process underway, she crawls from under her covers and putters about her home excitedly envisioning her coming child and nervously anticipating the work […]
Finding My Voice: Why I Wrote Unbreakable: Rising Above an Abusive Marriage
By Joni Parker Thomas I wrote Unbreakable: Rising Above an Abusive Marriage to help other women who have suffered domestic violence find the strength to protect themselves and their children. Too often, abusers hide behind a “Mr. Nice Guy” façade to lure women into relationships, only to reveal their cruelty later. I never imagined I […]
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