Tag: women writers
Authors Interviewing Characters: Pim Wangtechewat
The Wang family are hiding a secret – they all have the ability to time travel. When parents Joshua and Lily depart for the past and never return, their children Tommy and Eva are forced to deal with their grief alone. Eva might be trying to find her place in the present, but Tommy is pulled further […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Annie Rains
THROUGH THE SNOW GLOBE It’s a Wonderful Life meets Groundhog Day in USA Today bestselling author Annie Rains’ new novel, as a woman dangerously close to losing it all receives an unexpected Christmas gift that prompts a surprising journey of self-discovery . . . and another chance at happiness. What if you could have one more day with someone you […]
Launch Your Writing Career, with Emma Dhesi
How did the LAUNCH PAD series come about, and what was the experience of working in a collaboration? I love the way sometimes serendipity plays a hand because, about two weeks prior to Grace Sammon coming to me and asking me to be part of this marvellous project, I had just read an anthology published […]
Carrying on my Father’s Creative Legacy
Carrying on my father’s creative legacy Be it a wedding or a child’s first birthday or people’s 25th wedding anniversary … a poem from my dad was always on people’s wish lists. No matter the location or occasion, no celebration was ever complete without Dad’s poems. Bills needed to be paid, but he made sure his soul was […]
In Search of the Souls Close to Edgar Allan Poe
In Search of the Souls Close to Edgar Allan Poe Since I was a teen, my father has clipped newspaper articles that he thinks will interest me. Many of the ones that I have kept since the late 1980s are focused on the Poe Toaster, the individual who visited Edgar Allan Poe’s grave in the […]
Of Sweet Spots and Near Misses
Of Sweet Spots and Near Misses From the time I started reading chapter books in elementary school, I have loved stories that go on for days. I knew I wanted to write them. The trouble was, I couldn’t think of any stories that were long enough to fill a book. I could think of intriguing […]
Writing Tough Stuff: Five Tips to Make it Easier
Writing Tough Stuff: Five Tips to Make it Easier Last summer and winter I tried (and tried) to write a short memoir essay about a short stint of living and working in a London pub during the late 1980s. The opening scene of the essay, in which, on my very first night there, I wake […]
PJ McIlVaine in Conversation with her A GOOD MAN Protagonist, Brooks Anderson
About A GOOD MAN Decades after a brutal childhood trauma, a famous novelist finds his life shattered once again, in this unsettling psychological mystery thriller. After years of turmoil, Brooks Anderson is sober and has a stable life with his wife and two kids. He should be enjoying life, but the persistent nightmares and sleepwalking […]
The Birth of a Book Cover
The Birth of a Book Cover Books are written in isolation, but their covers are born in community, at least in my experience. Here’s the story of how I birthed the cover for LOUISE AND VINCENT. Great artist that Vincent van Gogh was, he’d been a terribly lonely man. When I read in his biography […]
The Inspiration for Sideline Confidential By Brooke Bentley
I was standing on the periphery of a conference room in downtown Indianapolis watching reporters joust microphones in front of the next hyped NFL prospect. It was 2009, and at this time the NFL strictly limited media access to the Scouting Combine. The room was primarily filled with long-time print reporters, a small contingent of […]
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