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The Second Life of Jack and Jackie: Feeling the (Writing) Fear and Doing It Anyway
Here’s something I’ve learned about myself over the past few years—as a writer, I apparently love a challenge. My first novel, The Girl Who Tried to Change History, was a time travel-focused story mixed with historical fiction, set in London during World War Two. I decided to write this book despite the fact that I […]
This book Changed my Life
Author Catalina Margulis shares her story of the transformative power of storytelling By Catalina Margulis When I started writing my book Again, Only More Like You, I had been laid off, restructured out of my job. AND I was pregnant. On top of it all I was turning 40. Having spent my whole life building […]
My Life’s a Beach
By Deb Richardson-Moore I have lived my best life on beaches. Oh, there were long stretches in between, but I endured them by looking ahead or behind to times on those wide stretches of sand and the sometimes gentle, sometimes turbulent waves of the mighty Atlantic. I have always resided in upstate South Carolina, so […]
The Inspiration For The House Of Lost Whispers
By Jenni Keer Thank you so much for having me on your wonderful blog again and for inviting me to talk about my quirky historical romances. My visit here coincides with the release of my latest novel, The House of Lost Whispers, which came out on April 27th, and I’m here to tell you a […]
The Stories We Wear: How a Wardrobe Became My Writing Desk
By Amal Hdhili I didn’t set out to write a book. I set out to remember who I was before life got too loud. There was a time I wrote often—letters I never sent, poems I didn’t show, journal entries I buried in drawers. But somewhere between growing up and showing up—at work, in life, […]
CHASING SHADOWS: How a Real-Life Mystery Inspired a Co-Written Novel
By A.C. Adams My wife and creative partner, Christina Adams, and I met in San Diego in our early twenties. She had just returned from a tour in India and Europe as the lead singer of Vrindavan, a world music ensemble. I was the composer and book writer for an original rock opera, An Eye […]
Interview with Melissa Payne
Melissa Payne is the bestselling author of six novels, including The Wild Road Home, A Light in the Forest and her latest, In the Beautiful Dark. After an early career raising money for nonprofit organizations, Melissa began dreaming about becoming a published author and wrote her first novel. Her stories feature small mountain towns with […]
Six Things I Learned Watching Outlander
By Valerie Taylor, author of the Venus Bixby Mystery Series Raise your hand. Have you ever said, “The book was better than the movie”? When it comes to Outlander (book by Diana Gabaldon), I’m in no position to compare one format to the other. I am not one of the more than 50 million people […]
Anna Hebra Flaster Interviews her Younger Self
In Ana Hebra Flaster‘s powerful debut memoir, Flaster chronicles her family’s refugee journey from a Cuban barrio to a New Hampshire mill town, capturing the resilience, love, and complex identity of immigrant life in the U.S. Featured on NPR and PBS, and a finalist for major literary prizes, Flaster’s memoir reveals how the strong-willed women in her family wove stories of their Cuban […]
The Book Club For Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick, EXCERPT
The Book Club For Troublesome Women “This is a novel about ambitious women and the mentors that inspired them to excellence . . . Bostwick carves an unforgettable path for her characters.”–Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Good Left Undone Margaret Ryan never really meant to start a book club . . . or a feminist revolution in […]
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