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From Desk Job to Dream Job: A true story of leaving the cubicle for Cuba
What I’m about to share may seem like fiction, but I’m disclosing it to convince you that by taking risks, being adventurous, and believing in serendipity dreams can come true. Six years ago, I would daydream from my cubicle about travel. It didn’t matter where. I would escape my cluttered desk of press releases and […]
Q&A with Literary Agent Katie Kotchman of Don Congdon Associates
In non-fiction, Katie Kotchman specializes in business (all areas); narrative non-fiction such as popular science and books about social/cultural issues; self-help that focuses on success, motivation, and psychology; and pop culture. Katie is actively seeking new non-fiction clients with built-in platforms from whom she can learn something new. In fiction, she’s interested in representing […]
Preserving Her Stories
Originally years ago, all I wanted to do was write books. My design changed one day in the mid-1990s when I realized the extent of stereotyping that exists in the West regarding the Middle East in general and the women of that region in particular. I was on transit at Heathrow Airport, on my way […]
Treasuring Memories
However you define the term ‘historical novel’, there can be few things more daunting than being asked to write about events which you yourself don’t remember, but which other people do. This was the position I was put in when I was commissioned to write a series of novels set during the Second World War. […]
How TV and Film Influence My Writing
‘How do we begin to covet, Clarice? Do we seek out things to covet? No, we begin by coveting what we see every day. Don’t you feel eyes moving over you, Clarice? And don’t your eyes seek out the thing you want?’ For a generation of film lovers those words were etched into our brains […]
Displacement And Writing
Displacement is a central theme of my novel ‘Le Chateau’. The heroine, Charlotte is an Australian, living as an expatriate in France. But Charlotte is no ordinary expat, she has suffered an accident and cannot remember the past five years of her life. The life she returns to post hospital is very different to her […]
Some Thoughts On Writing A Novel
I could tell you it took me a quick six months to write my first novel. It’s true — but also a lie. Sure, that’s how long it took from the first typed word to the last revised one. But the truth of the matter is, it took thirty years. It’s sort of like that […]
Q&A with Brunonia Barry
Brunonia Barry is the New York Times and international bestselling author of THE LACE READER (first self-published then picked up by William Morrow 2008) and THE MAP OF TRUE PLACES (William Morrow 2010) and her newest THE FIFTH PETAL (Crown 2017)! Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She was the first […]
Dreams: Not Only For The Young
Well, I’ve done it. I fulfilled a lifelong dream. My first novel, Hostile Takeover: A Love Story just published. It took me a number of decades to get around to doing it as life and work got in the way. In fact, it took so many decades that the book comes out the same year I […]
The Creativity Trinity – Truth|Empathy|Hope
The most beneficial thing for me about living in an all-women’s residence hall in college was the sharing: I’ve never done that either! / Yeah, I did that too. Facepalm. / That happened to me too! I’d thought I was the only one. I’ve witnessed the same experiences at writers’ conferences and retreats and in […]
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