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My Life’s Work: Words Make a Way Through Fire by Cyra Sweet Dumitru
Words Make a Way Through Fire is a memoir told through poetry and prose that chronicles my decades-long journey of transforming traumatic memory into a creative life. While the book includes my reckoning, which sometimes is rather raw, it is most about the healing influences of writing, swimming as meditation, and the intuited guidance of […]
Writing My Second Memoir
By Hendrika de Vries A Journey into the Sequel When I sat down to begin the writing of my second memoir, it felt as if I were returning to a place at once familiar and uncharted. The first memoir was born of urgency, an obligation to share my story, my experience of surviving oppression, hatred […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Julie Swanson interviews Mickey
In North of Tomboy, a semi-autobiographical novel set on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula in 1973, shy fourth-grader Jess Jezowski turns the tables on her mom when she’s given yet another girly baby doll for Christmas. This time, instead of ignoring or destroying it, she transforms it into the boy she’s always wanted to be—a brave, funny […]
Whatever Happened To Lori Lovely? by Sarah McCoy: Excerpt
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO LORI LOVELY? From New York Times bestselling author Sarah McCoy—a spellbinding novel based on a true story: a beautiful young movie star of Hollywood’s Golden Age gives up her bright career to become a nun. In 1969, twenty-three-year-old starlet Lori Lovely, the apple of Hollywood’s eye, shocks the world by ditching a promising film […]
The Shattered King, by Charlie N. Holmberg: Excerpt
The Shattered King A captive healer and a mysterious prince are drawn to each other in the midst of war and magic in a beguiling dark fantasy by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg. The kingdom of Cansere is on the brink of war. Young men are conscripted from their homes, and a royal decree […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Patricia Leavy, author of Cinematic Destinies
CINEMATIC DESTINIES For fans of Tessa Bailey and Hannah Grace, Cinematic Destinies is a feel-good, contemporary romance about a trio of adult children searching for love and beauty in the shadow of their parents’ legendary Hollywood fairy-tale romance. Legendary actor Finn Forrester and his wife philosopher Ella Sinclair Forrester met on the location shoot for Jean Mercier’s […]
L.S. Stratton: Authors Interviewing Characters
IN DEADLY COMPANY An incisive workplace satire and twisty murder mystery featuring a young executive assistant who realizes the peril in being diligently attentive to her boss’s whims. As the assistant of the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, Nicole Underwood has plenty of tasks on her to-do list—one of which is the blowout birthday […]
How Stories Turned a Fiction Writer Into a Memoirist
During college, when my freshman year rhetoric teacher pulled me aside after class and asked if I’d ever considered a career in writing, my heart bloomed. I’d wanted to be an author since I was in the first grade and created a construction paper book complete with illustrations. Still, I didn’t know if I was […]
What’s your Writer Identity? How Your Writing Beliefs Impact Your Writing
By Sarah E. Pearsall What does it mean to be a writer? In my scholarly life, I study writer identity as it pertains to writing teachers, but much of what I research also applies to writers who are not teachers of writing. What the research tells us is that how you identify as a writer […]
Women and War: Letters from Ukraine to the Free World
By Aurélie Bros I became a researcher for a simple reason—to seek truth wherever it may be found. For over a decade, I devoted myself to studying energy geopolitics, with a particular focus on the post-Soviet region. I lived there, published, taught, and conducted my research. My life was intertwined with the region in countless […]
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