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How I Became a Serial Memoirist by Lisa Cheek
I didn’t know much about memoirs when I decided to write one. But what I did know – I was a serial storyteller. Being a film editor for twenty-five years, I told hundreds of stories through film. Most were only thirty seconds while some were full ninety minute features. Many of them comedies, my favorite […]
Atonement and Guilt: How Aristocratic Women in 18th-Century Britain Dealt with Moral Transgressions by Vanda Vadas
In my newly released Scottish Historical romance, The Scoundrel Scot, the heroine, Lady Helene Beckett, is morally burdened with guilt and forced to commit one sin in order to atone for another. Her younger sister suffers from a condition we would recognise today as epilepsy, an illness poorly understood and heavily stigmatised in the 18th […]
Write Naked: A Love Letter to the Writer’s Journey
By Jennifer Probst I’ve been writing for thirty-five years. I started when I was twelve years old. For the past decade, I’ve written full-time. I’ve hit bestseller lists, made seven figures, and lived the dream I had as a kid. I’ve also been fired. I’ve been broke. I’ve had books tank and been rejected by […]
What Home Means
by Janet Clare I have recently been made aware that the title of my new novel, True Home seems to have struck a chord with many for whom the words hold very different meanings, most of which have nothing to do with, and are far beyond, the story of my novel. In my city of […]
From the Left Side
By Nan Reinhardt No, I’m not talking politics, I’m talking literally from the left side. That’s how I see life because I’m a lefty. And not just left-handed, but extremely left-handed. Don’t ask me to do much of anything with my right—it simply ain’t gonna happen. It’s not always easy being a lefty in a right-handed […]
My Brush with Mortality—3 Realizations that Inspired my Novel
My Brush with Mortality—3 Realizations that Inspired my Novel During the pandemic, a series of poor health reports resulted in three surgeries (two planned and one life-saving emergency surgery that led to a nine-day recovery stint in the hospital). Nothing makes you reevaluate your life like facing your mortality. Alone at night in that hospital […]
An Interview with Rosanna Patruno
Debut new adult author Rosanna Patruno’s first book in her enchanting new series, “The Hidden Heir” (March 14, 2023), which includes a mysterious, handsome aristocrat and forgotten family secrets. Perfect for adults who crave magical tuition stories (not written by J.K. Rowling) with a sexy twist, Patruno invites readers into the first of many stories […]
Yoga, Writing and The Liberation of Autism
Yoga, Writing and The Liberation of Autism Julia Lee Barclay-Morton In contemplating how to write about yoga and how it supports my writing process, I can’t help but see how yoga helped me function for decades as someone who did not know until age 57 that she was autistic with a side order of dyspraxia […]
Writing Mature Female Characters – Let Grandma Be Cool!
I write contemporary romance, but this particular pet peeve applies across all genres. Fictional grandmothers (or women old enough to be grandmothers) are stuck in a time trap. Stuck in Mayberry, if you will, where grandmas wore gingham aprons and always had a batch of their famous chocolate chip cookies coming out of the oven. […]
Interview with Maggie Humm
Interview with Maggie Humm, author of Talland House Talland House takes Lily Briscoe the artist character from the confines of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. Set between 1900 and 1919 in picturesque Cornwall and war-blasted London, the novel tells Lily’s emotional journey in becoming a professional artist: her love-life, mourning her dead mother, as a […]
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