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Q&A with Caroline Leavitt
Caroline Leavitt is the American novelist who penned CRUEL BEAUTIFUL WORLD (Algonquin 2016), already on two Book Club Lists and an Indie Next Pick and praised by Marie Claire, Pop Sugar, Shelf Awareness, Minneapolis Star Tribune, New York Newsday, NPR’s Weekend Edition and more. Caroline is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author […]
Q&A with Abda Khan
Abda Khan was born in inner city Bradford, England. She was the seventh of eight children to Pakistani immigrant parents, and the first of their children to be born in the UK. She is an attorney, who after working as a Solicitor for a criminal law firm, set up her own law practice after she […]
Writing An Unsympathetic Heroine
Like Jane Austen with Emma, I set out for one of my heroines of The White Camellia to be decidedly unsympathetic. She had to be. You see, because while the younger heroine, Bea, has obstacles to overcome, when her family is ruined, and their beautiful Cornish home of Tressillion House lost, the older heroine, Sybil, […]
Controlling The Crazies
The daunting, never-ending path to publication can push writers to eat a pan of brownies in one sitting. Or buy three purses in a day. Because any writer trudging through the trenches on their way to publishing will attest that the journey can make you question your sanity. Every time we think we’ve lined up […]
Shouting From The Rooftops: Self Promo
Way back in the mists of time (2000) at the instigation of author Margaret Murphy I was one of seven northern crime writers who clubbed together to launch Murder Squad. We created a website, produced a brochure and were soon appearing at libraries and festivals throughout the country to promote our work. The impetus for […]
Sex, Lies & Scotch Tape: Exposing Secrets & Healing Wounds WITH Your Characters’ Help
Successful albeit intensely secretive husband wires all of your money out of the country, forges your name, abandons you and your two young children, leaving you with less than $1 in your bank account, and then he vanishes—never to be seen nor heard from again. It’s as though he never existed … A page-turner, right? […]
How to Write about Something You Know Nothing About
I recently began taking piano lessons as an adult, and I can now tell you this for certain: I am no musician. On the first day, when I told my piano teacher that I wanted to learn to play ragtime, she said: “Why does everyone always want to tackle the hardest music first?” I didn’t […]
Lessons Learned From The Brooklyn Book Festival
Never having been a vendor at a book festival, I jumped at the chance to share a booth at the Brooklyn Book Festival with two other She Writes Press authors, Sande Boritz Berger, author of The Sweetness, A Novel and Liz Gelb O’Connor, author of The Angelorum Chronicles and Caught Up in Raine—romantic women’s fiction. […]
Symmetry and Picasso: What I’ve Learned From My Third Grade Art Students About Writing
Every year I present a week-long program at my kids’ elementary school called “Art Goes to School.” It’s a wonderful idea sponsored by the local art institute. I meet with volunteers weekly throughout the fall to study a portfolio (which changes annually) of about 20 reproductions of pieces located in art museums throughout the world. […]
Pieces Of Me: Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters
“You should be glad you didn’t get your girls back yet,” a friend told me while we were in line at a coffee shop. “Your book will be that much better.” It was 1995, and I had just returned to Alaska from Greece after my first failed attempt to rescue my kidnapped daughters, taken by […]
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