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The Jet-Set Age Enters Historical Fiction
By Camille Di Maio Like most historical fiction authors, the idea for a story strikes when I’m not looking for it and plants itself in my imagination, growing taller than other notions until towering over the rest and demanding attention. This was the case when I first had the idea for COME FLY WITH ME. […]
Murder Without A Duck, Claudia H. Long, Excerpt
Sal, a recently divorced and temporarily suspended lawyer relocates to the small town of Simpato in Northern California to her parents’ old home, vacant since their deaths. Looking for privacy, a reprieve from her life, and a fresh start, instead she’s quickly immersed into the small-town gossip mill of characters who all know more about […]
Writers and Friendship: Co-authoring a Series
By Patricia Sands It has been fifteen (wonderful, for me) years since my first novel, The Bridge Club, was published. One thought I always express when asked about the best things I’ve learned in this writing world is this: the global writing community is collegial, supportive, encouraging, and all about friendship in the commitment to […]
ALL THE PRETTY SHOES: EXCERPT
All the Pretty Shoes A memoir by Marianne Klein, aka Marika Roth Marianne R. Klein, aka Marika Roth, was born in Budapest, Hungary. She lived in Paris, France after WWII, until she was transferred to Montreal, Canada for adoption. There she studied creative writing as well as psychology at Sir George William University in Montreal. […]
Reading with Rochelle Weinstein: December 2024
Hello Readers & Friends, Happy New Year! 2025. It’s still hard to believe. Is it just me or are the years flying by?! As we start on the first page of a blank book (some of us literally), I’m wondering if you make resolutions? Here’s mine: to get better at saying no to things that […]
The Taking, a New Novel by Dona Masi, Explores What it’s Like to Confront the Unknown
By Dona Masi Human history is filled with stories about encounters with strange beings from other planets. In these stories, human beings are confronted by the unknown in their experiences with out-of-the-world creatures, and it changes their lives forever. At least this is true according to the legends of unidentified flying objects and alien abductions, […]
Give Yourself Permission to Pivot: The Ability to Change your Mind
By Jennifer Todling This fall, I originally had five solo trips planned for business retreats, milestone events and recording my audiobook. I love having time to myself and traveling on my own schedule where I get to indulge in my creative pursuits without distraction. During the pandemic, I somehow found the capacity to go back […]
Launch Diaries: Asking for Author Blurbs
I once believed the hardest part of becoming an author was querying the novel—which is like believing parenting can’t possibly get tougher than during the infant stage. (Insert maniacal laughter of parents with teenagers and authors asking for endorsements here.) Before my own publishing journey, I noticed jacket quotes on books, I just never considered how they […]
RIP Villager J
By Barbara Bos Villager J and I always saluted when we encountered each other, backs straight, heels clicking. I’m not sure who started it. I think I did. It became our inside joke. Today I’m going to salute him one last time but he won’t salute me back because he’s inside a coffin and it’s […]
I Didn’t Write My Book, I Felt It
By Sarah Lavane I think I’m a “one and done” author. Perhaps I’m wrong and there’s another book that will wriggle its way out of me in the future, but my memoir wasn’t a book I planned to write. It was a years-long feeling I couldn’t shake. It was a compulsion struggling to find its […]
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