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In Search of Home
When I was four years old, my parents and I immigrated to the United States as Soviet Jewish refugees. I grew up speaking Russian and English, holding onto some traditions and values of the old world, while learning the customs the new. While my current married name might belie my roots, being an immigrant is […]
Listening for the Heartbeat by Eliza Maxwell
Sometime back in the days before Instagram and Snapchat I found myself in a place I never expected to be. Exhausted. Two babies in two years and I didn’t know if I’d ever see another full night’s sleep. The Dance of Diapers and Bottles was taking a toll physically, yet the mental seesaw between utter […]
Finding the Confidence to Write The Missing Girl
I’ve wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember. I grew up in Essex and Berkshire, the youngest of five children and an only girl. I was quiet and shy and spent most of my time reading and writing stories. My parents encouraged me with trips to libraries and bookshops. Most […]
In Praise Of The Blind Item
I want to know less about more people. Admittedly, I’m partial. In researching and writing my new novel, Another Side of Paradise, I became thoroughly acquainted with Sheilah Graham, a columnist who pioneered gentle gossip even as she was the story, the last love of the very married (sorry, Zelda) F. Scott Fitzgerald. Call Sheilah’s […]
The Art of Co-Authoring
Writing is usually a solitary process. The author finds a story, fills it with characters and gets to decide who lives and who dies (at least until her editor gets involved). So most people’s response when I tell them that I write books with my sister is surprise: surprise that a creative process can be […]
How Publishing My Memoir Helped Me Write a Novel That Sold
I have a grinning photograph from the day my first paperback copies of LOST IN TRANSPLANTATION arrived, taken inside my car. I was so excited I didn’t even wait to get home to open the box. I ran back into our tiny post office and waved my book around, exclaiming “My book is here!” to […]
Why I Wrote My Three Books In My Pensioner Years
One morning in Budapest during the autumn of 1944, an unknown official in charge of deporting Hungarian Jews sent back all the women accompanied by children. My Mother, Leona Grunwald, was one of those women and I was a tiny baby in her arms. I have no means of knowing who that official was and […]
Q&A with Laurie Nadel, PhD
Laurie Nadel, PhD., is a specialist in acute stress, trauma and anxiety issues. She is a member of a critical incident stress management team working with first responders. After losing her home to Hurricane Sandy, Dr. Laurie ran long-term support groups for survivors. From 2003 to 2005, she directed a program for teenagers whose fathers were […]
BEING AGENTED IRL – Part Three
A Twenty-Five-Question Interview Published as a Five Part Series Part One Part Two | Hosted by MM Finck | | Anonymously Answered By Agented Authors* with Varying Publishing Career Durations and Successes from Debut to Bestselling and Represented by Multiple Literary Agencies of Varying Sizes | QUESTION ELEVEN Historically, how many story ideas do you […]
How Writing Made Me a More Empathic Person
My seventh English language novel released on 22 May. Hedging His Bets is the story of a high-flying investor, Jake, and his sexy British flat mate, Jess, who share a “friends with benefits” relationship…until they don’t. Hedging His Bets may rightly be described as a light read. One reviewer called it a “summer must read”. […]
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