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Authors Interviewing Characters: Melissa O’Connor
THE ONE AND ONLY VIVIAN STONE The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo meets The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in this enchanting novel about estranged lovers reconnecting over mysterious tapes found in an attic and the old Hollywood secret hidden within them. After her grandmother’s death, thirty-something Margot DuBois prepares to sell the house quickly so she can go back […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Linda Dahl
TINY VOICES For fans of Anne Tyler and Jojo Moyes, a tartly compassionate and contemporary tale of sibling love and conflict, marital challenges, and what personal fulfillment looks like—or doesn’t—in middle age. Mid-life: Its obligations and demands, its petty foibles and evasions. And sometimes, its crises. Dreams are deferred, shortcomings rationalized. Like favorite old clothes, […]
WAYWARD GIRLS by Susan Wiggs, Excerpt
From New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs, a wrenching but life-affirming novel based on a true story of survival, friendship, and redemption. Set in the turbulent Vietnam era in the All-American city of Buffalo, New York, six girls are condemned to forced labor in the laundry of a Catholic reform school. In 1968 we meet six […]
Rules? What Are These Rules Of Which You Strangely Speak?
By Christina Hamlett I was a relative newcomer to the dizzying blogosphere realm ten years ago. I’d click on Facebook links if a particular blog topic interested me. I’d even leave comments and occasionally find myself in a cyber conversation with kindred spirits. According to statistics at http://www.worldometers.info, almost four million blogs are being posted […]
Why We Need Historical Fiction Written by Women
by Patricia Furstenberg While I wrote When Secrets Bloom I asked myself, what happens when women take history into their own hands, pen first? In this deeply personal post, I explore why historical fiction written by women matters more than ever, especially when it brings to light forgotten voices from war and the medieval past. […]
A WRITER’S JOURNEY
Thomas Edison once said in regards to his work on the light bulb: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” The same could be said for me when it came to publishing a book. On another day, when I’ve been bombarded by rejection slips and bad reviews, I’d say that […]
On Writing Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food
A few years ago, the title of a friend’s email caught my eye. “ACORNS ARE EDIBLE!” it read. The link below took me to a TEDx Talk by a woman in Greece who claimed that not only are acorns edible; they are a superfood. The woman went on: acorns are one of humanity’s oldest staple […]
Found at Fifty: My Journey Through the World and Back to Myself
Found at Fifty: My Journey Through the World and Back to Myself Found at Fifty: My Journey Through the World and Back to Myself is a memoir of reinvention. It is a story of a two-year, 200,000-mile journey that took me across five continents. I meditated at the feet of Buddha in the temples of […]
When Is Your Next Book Coming Out?
By Rebecca Warner “What are your writing now?” “When is your next book coming out?” For me, an author who has hung up her spurs and has no plans to get back in the saddle, these questions bring up a sense of anxiety. A slight feeling of failure. A touch of guilt. It’s getting easier […]
The Accidental Novelist
I didn’t plan on becoming a novelist, but I am one, thanks to a deathbed promise I made to fulfill someone else’s dream. Here’s how that happened. In the 1980s and 1990s, my mother, Rona S. Zable, had four young adult and middle grade books published by major New York publishers. Those novels—Love at the […]
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