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Leading A Double Writing Life

Leading A Double Writing Life

Darby Kane (also known as HelenKay Dimon) For years I wrote romance, mostly romantic suspense, as HelenKay Dimon. A few weeks ago my first domestic suspense, Pretty Little Wife, came out under my new pseudonym, Darby Kane. Strangely, both names and my writing career in both genres can be traced to my previous career—divorce lawyer. […]

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Dare Boys to Embrace Healthy Masculinity and Help Achieve Real Gender Equity

Dare Boys to Embrace Healthy Masculinity and Help Achieve Real Gender Equity

By Anna Marie Johnson Teague Co-author, The Book of Dares My son was three months old when I first heard my co-author Ted Bunch speaking to a group of 300+ high school boys in New Orleans, LA. We were in a huge gymnasium and the boys were seated in long rows of folding chairs. Ted started […]

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Musings For The Memoir

Musings For The Memoir

After writing and publishing two novels, one set during WW11, and another in the 1970’s, a tale of a lonely suburban housewife in New Jersey, Sande Boritz Berger is ready to tackle her memoir and share her own emotional journey. Baby GirlI was a war baby, the first child and only girl. In the years […]

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The Road to Fairy Godmothers Inc. By Saranna DeWylde

The Road to Fairy Godmothers Inc. By Saranna DeWylde

The road to Fairy Godmothers Inc. was not the primrose path you might expect for a book that’s about adorable meddling fairy godmothers, silly hijinks, and happily ever afters. In fact, I’d just signed the contract for the first three books in the series right before we rolled over into the hellscape that was 2020. […]

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“Are they based on a real person?” My Writing Journey from Non-Fiction to Fiction

“Are they based on a real person?” My Writing Journey from Non-Fiction to Fiction

“Are they based on a real person?” My Writing Journey from Non-Fiction to Fiction If you write fiction, I bet that’s a question you’ve heard many times. Some writers don’t like being asked this, assuming that readers think your imagination isn’t strong enough to dream up a character all by itself. But I choose to […]

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Change in Creative Mindsets with Change in Leadership: Kamala Harris as the Vice President

Change in Creative Mindsets with Change in Leadership: Kamala Harris as the Vice President

In May 2020, I taught a virtual writing workshop in partnership with a chic, independent bookstore called Kew & Willow Books. It was a fully sold-out virtual workshop where we wrote all kinds of stories about women who have made an impression in our lives—our mothers, grandmothers, teachers, friends, or any other woman who helped shape […]

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Excerpt from GERTA by Kateřina Tučková 

Excerpt from GERTA by Kateřina Tučková 

We are excited to partake in the blogtour of Czech author Kateřina Tučková and her award-winning novel, GERTA, her first to be translated into English by the talented Véronique Firkusny (Amazon Crossing; February 1, 2021; $24.95). Set in Brno, a city in the South Moravian region of the Czech Republic and the author’s hometown, GERTA […]

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Sherri Rosen interviews Deborah Gaal about her novel, Synchronicities on the Avenue of the Saints

Sherri Rosen interviews Deborah Gaal about her novel, Synchronicities on the Avenue of the Saints

Sherri Rosen interviews Deborah Gaal about her novel, Synchronicities on the Avenue of the Saints Sherri Rosen: What is the book Synchronicities on the Avenue of the Saints about?  Deborah Gaal: In the novel’s prologue a shaman tells a woman she must write a story to please the ancestors. What kind of story?” she asks. The shaman answers, […]

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Why I Wrote A Horse Book

Why I Wrote A Horse Book

The answer isn’t as simple as “Because you love horses.” While it’s part of the answer, it doesn’t tell the whole story. It was May 2018. I had just submitted my semester grades as a psychology instructor teaching a subject and students I adored. However, a few days later, without any warning, my teaching contract […]

January 31, 2021 | By | Reply More
On Writing Api’s Berlin Diaries

On Writing Api’s Berlin Diaries

Imagine if you found out that someone you loved had a dark past. That happened to author Gabrielle Robinson, as she tried to reconcile the grandfather she knew with his complex past in her memoir Api’s Berlin Diaries (She Writes Press, September 15, 2020).  After her mother’s death, Robinson found two diaries her grandfather had […]

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