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Q&A with Allison Winn Scotch
Allison Winn Scotch is the bestselling author of six women’s fiction novels including: Time of My Life (2008), The Department of Lost and Found (2009), The One That I Want (2010, The Song Remains the Same (2012), The Theory of Opposites (2013) which was optioned for the screen by Jennifer Garner’s Vandalia Films (Hurry, Jen!!!) […]
The Fifth Avenue Artists Society
I’m really into genealogy. I think I come by it honestly. My family as a whole is very interested in our history, and once you find one colorful story it’s hard to stop. Granted, I’ve hardly had to search for much—my grandma’s family sort of passes down anecdotes and then routinely talks about them, so, […]
Q&A with Emily Giffin
Emily Giffin needs no introduction for us. We are clamoring for and squealing over her newest title FIRST COMES LOVE. She published seven books before that, all of them New York Times bestsellers. Who bought these books? We did. We know Emily Giffin. We love Emily Giffin. So I’ll make this quick. (Even told quickly, […]
Second Person: Why I Used You In My Novel
Second person address, “I-to-you,” is a fascinating and effective literary device, the most intimate point-of-view there is, but writers avoid it like a death knell. Most editors reject it. Not only that, it isn’t easy to pull off, especially in novel length stories. So why use it? Why have the narrator tell her story to […]
From Poem to Love Story
Whenever I think of the protagonist in my historical novel, Ella Durant, I imagine her brother in a fit of rage in 1903, burning all of her letters, family photos, and any memorabilia having her imprint. It had to be, because there is scant primary material about Ella Durant except for a handful of correspondence […]
Pseudonyms: To Use Or Not To Use
I suppose I should start off by admitting that Elysee Orchidkiller is not my real name. I can hear you groan with disappointment and I completely agree with you. It is such a shame that my parents didn’t think up such fetching names! Why did I choose to publish under a pseudonym? I imagine my […]
Isn’t it Romantic? The Enduring Popularity of Literature’s Most Successful Genre
I didn’t set out to write romance. Not intentionally, anyway. I started writing because I was in love with words, not because I was in love with love. Growing up as an only child, books were my closest friends. I was a voracious reader, and my taste ran the gamut. Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden, Laura […]
Never Jump From A Moving Novel
Novel writing is a journey. We authors are the advance team who scout locations before the readers make an appearance. But we’re travelers first and foremost – into foreign lands, if we’ve the nerve to leave the familiar landscape of memoir. When I began writing, agents and editors cautioned that the craft had strict rules. […]
Reading Out Loud: Tips on Public Readings
I am currently crowd-funding a book of short stories called In The Future Everyone Will Be World Famous For Fifteen Minutes (Unbound Publishing.) Publishing a book this way means that I have to get people interested in the project before it is published rather than after. One way of letting people know about a book […]
On Openings
After digging deep into the recesses of my mind and pouring out of ideas on a blank page or screen, what next? The gestation period is not completely over. I continue to create characters and plot as I write. That continual creative experience is vital to the way I work. For many writers, after this […]
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