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Authors Interviewing Characters: Stacey Marshall
Interview between author, Stacey Marshall and her character, Captain Courage Captain Courage is the superhero principal at Blythe Elementary School in my new book, Captain Courage and the Fear-Squishing Shoes by Stacey Marshall, M.S., CCC-SLP. In this story, the captain swoops in to help a new student, Katie, who’s facing common challenges at school. Whether it’s presenting […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Jennifer Jabaley
WHAT’S YOURS IS MINE Determined daughters. Controlling mothers. There’s no such thing as friendly competition in a twisty novel of suspense about ambition, revenge, and unrealized dreams. Valerie Yarnell is a hardworking single mother who’d do anything for her daughter, Kate. Kate is a dancer with dreams of stardom, just like her talented best friend, […]
The Ballad of Speedball Baby: A Memoir by Ali Smith, EXCERPT
The Ballad of Speedball Baby is the thrilling, extremely funny, and heart-wrenchingly vulnerable story of Ali Smith—coming of age in ’90s New York—who commits to the messy, exhilarating life of a musician and must survive the slings and arrows society reserves for women who refuse to comply. As an only child reeling from the demolition of […]
Pivoting to Writing at 70
By Patricia Grayhall After a nearly forty-year career as a medical specialist, I retired with my partner to a beautiful log home on a mountaintop overlooking the Strait of Juan de Fuca that divides Washington and British Columbia. Then, at nearly 70 years old, when we were downsizing, I came across a stack of old […]
July: Reading With Rochelle Weinstein
Hello Readers & Friends, Another month flies by, and just when I think I have my TBR under control, BAM. Another Tuesday and another set of titles to replenish the pile. I read some fabulous books in July, and there was the obvious bingeworthy Netflix series which everyone is talking about: The Hunting Wives. As […]
Harvesting a Memoir
Muriel A. Murch The house is still. The family have flown to Los Angeles or Buenos Aires. My husband is in New York while I am here on the farm. We take turns reaching out to one another, I travel east more often than he comes west. We are as free to roam or stay […]
August Recommended Reads
Infidelity Rules: A Menu For Disaster, The Perils of Loving Food, Wine, and Married Men, Joelle Babula “Infidelity Rules is a delicious escape. The complexities of love and wine pair for an emotional journey alongside characters navigating broken hearts and moral dilemmas.” -Audrey Ingram, author of The River Runs South QUINN DAVIS shatters the norm. She’s […]
A Square Peg in a Round Hole: Writing a Memoir About Schizoid Personality Disorder, I Found My Family
By Blair Sorrel, author of A Schizoid at Smith: How Overparenting Leads to Underachieving This oddball book had a humble origin. Not the legendary cocktail napkin provenance of a famous song (Garth Brooks’ “I Got Friends in Low Places”) or a lowly toilet paper debut (Richard Berry’s “Louie, Louie”). My genre-less opus came into the world […]
What inspired WE ARE THE MATCH
by Mary E. Roach WE ARE THE MATCH is a modern, sapphic reimagining of the myth of Helen of Troy, set against a backdrop of escalating violence between rival crime families. There are so many stories about Helen, and she’s a character that is talked about in so many different types of media, and talked […]
Crossing Borders in Language and Life
How writing in English—and traveling the world—made me a more daring author By Claire Polders I have many reasons for writing in English. I love the language, its words, grammar, and idioms. My husband is from the U.S. and the majority of my friends don’t comprehend my mother tongue. Most of the books, essays, newsletters, and […]
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