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Searching for Clarity in a Puzzling Gray Space
By Kathleen Somers For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved to write and had often fantasized about writing a book, though I never expected that I would one day do it. I have a drawer full of binders with children’s stories I had started over the years, bits and pieces of potential novels, […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Sara Foster
WHEN SHE WAS GONE Was she taken … or did she run? The pulse-pounding new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of You Don’t Know Me Rose once walked away from her daughter. Now she may be the only one who can save her. Former London police officer Rose Campbell has been estranged from her daughter, […]
Bring Everyone In With You: A Strategy For Those Days When You Feel Like You’re Not
by Rachel Stone Most days, I’m am author. The odd day, like today, I’m a speaker who tells people how I came to be an author in hopes of inspiring them to make space for their passions. But lately, I’ve felt unjustified in calling myself either. My current manuscript has me totally stuck. My last […]
With Great Risk Comes…..Additional Risks
by Savannah Hendricks When I set out to write my latest book, Sun City, 85373, I’d toyed around with the idea of the main character being a social worker. For the last thirteen years, it has been my day job, and as such, makes writing a story with a realistic career much easier because I […]
A Compass for Stormy Seas by Dessy Levinson
By Dessy Levinson Here are two truths and a lie: Our nervous system floods our minds in ways that become overwhelming. Our brain can parse overwhelm and clear it if we focus more on what is troubling us. There’s a way of navigating overwhelm that—over time—can steer you toward becoming your most caring and creative […]
Embracing the What Ifs: The Fear That Fuels My Writing
by Amanda Speights I first fell in love with books when I read Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell in Mrs. Arter’s fourth-grade class. The idea of becoming an author, though, didn’t occur to me as something I could—or even wanted—to do, until my teen years. My late husband believed in my writing […]
The Inspiration for Gitel’s Freedom
BY IRIS MITLIN LAV My mother’s name in the Yiddish language was Itta Gitel. Many Americans who are Jewish have an English name that they use every day – in my mother’s case it was Anne Gertrude – and a name in the Hebrew or Yiddish language used for ceremonial purposes. Those names were often […]
The Self-Care Phenomenon of Female Friendships and Chosen Family
By Jess Ames Throughout our lifetime, friends of every season will come and go, fade and grow. Some will float away on the wind, while others will take root in our lives and become the backdrop to all our most important moments. Weddings… and everything that comes after. Births. Deaths. Divorce. Anniversaries. Birthdays. New jobs. […]
MATERNAL AMBIVALENCE: The Loving Moments & Bitter Truths of Motherhood: Excerpt
Maternal Ambivalence: The Loving Moments & Bitter Truths of Motherhood by Margo Lowy PhD Maternal Ambivalence is a groundbreaking examination of the myriad complex emotions that accompany motherhood for so many women. Dr. Margo Lowy tackles the dark and shameful feelings associated with this long-misunderstood and taboo topic, offering the reader genuine self-acceptance and a transformative […]
Do The Thing You Are Most Afraid Of
By Joanne Intrator, author of Summons to Berlin: Nazi Theft and A Daughter’s Quest for Justice I was in Edinburgh on my way to Berlin via Amsterdam to give a paper at a conference organized by Benedikt Goebel, an architectural historian and expert on East Berlin where my family’s large manufacturing building was located until […]
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