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Inspiration Behind The Book By Khadijah VanBrakle
By Khadijah VanBrakle My Perfect Family is a story born out of love.As both an author and an avid reader, I’m drawn to books that include fraught mother/daughter relationships. My love of the Gilmore Girls inspired me to write my sophomore novel that follows a fractured, Black American Muslim family. I strongly believe that every […]
How a Therapy Horse Who Survived a Hurricane Inspired my New Children’s Book Series
The inspiration for the first book in my Bella and Bird the Emotion Explorers series, Bella and Bird Explore Anger, came in the wake of Hurricane Ian; a Category 5 storm that devastated our island in Southwest Florida. Just three weeks earlier, I adopted my horse, Bella, from Southern California as my equine partner in […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: SUSIE TATE
THE OUTLIER by Susie Tate Vicky is an outlier. An outlier in society, an outlier in the business world; she’s even an outlier in her own family. She knows that people find her weird and annoying, and she’s resigned to her loneliness until she sees him. Having never been attracted to any man before, her new […]
A Duck is a Thing with Feathers
Emily Dickenson wrote the famous poem, Hope is a thing with feathers. As soon as the first book in the Simpato Mystery Series came out, I was asked, “When did you start writing humor?” My answer was, “I always did. But it wore a heavy overcoat.” Now it was time to take the coat […]
Imposter or Outsider?
By Mary Camarillo Feeling like you don’t “fit in” to certain spaces, that any personal success is undeserved because it’s unearned, and to always be certain you’ll eventually be called out as a fraud are signs of Imposter Syndrome. I’ve claimed this particular malady. When my family moved to Southern California from North Carolina in […]
How a Scientist Wrote a Book about Wisdom
By Laura Gabayan In 2013, I noticed that my body started to develop random symptoms. I was a left-brain physician scientist committed to Western medicine and published extensively in academic journals. I believed in science and academia and felt that science explained everything. I thought that if I couldn’t see it, measure it, or could […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Auralee Wallace
The Late-Night Witches An enchantingly warm and funny novel about family, love lost and found, discovering who you are, and how difficult it is to slay a vampire from the beloved national bestselling author of the TikTok sensation In the Company of Witches. Cassie Beckett’s life is anything but magical. With a wild younger sister, three […]
HOW MY CHILDHOOD OBSESSION BECAME A MEMOIR
Collateral Stardust: Chasing Warren Beatty and Other Foolish Things At fourteen, I was lonely and depressed and I needed something to fill the void. I decided that “something” was Warren Beatty. Not as a short-term crush but as a man I would love and have in my life forever. I had a plan. I’d grow […]
It Was All French to Me
By Jane Harrington My new book, Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance, was born of a desire to bring to readers the lives and works of 17th-century salon writers who created the first fairy tale craze and then were pretty much left out of the history of the genre. I had first learned of these […]
With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories
By Nicole Nehrig My life was in transition as I began writing With Her Own Hands. Without school or childcare available during the pandemic, it was no longer tenable to balance a full-time job as a psychologist and researcher at a VA hospital with being the parent of two preschool-aged children. Research, which had been […]
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