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Writing a Series, by Judith Keim

Writing a Series, by Judith Keim

Writing a series… I’ve found that writing a series is both easier and harder than writing a stand-alone book. My longest series is ten books, my shortest, three books. With all series, the setting is very important, becoming like a character itself, an important piece of the glue that holds the books together. The reader […]

March 29, 2024 | By | Reply More
Writing Requirement: Have Fun

Writing Requirement: Have Fun

Writing Requirement:  Have Fun by Saralyn Richard I have taught creative writing off and on for a long time—to high school students and to senior citizens, to aspiring authors who made writing their careers, and to leisure-time writers who were testing the waters of their talents. No matter who the learners were, the process was […]

March 21, 2024 | By | Reply More
Authors Interviewing Characters: María Alejandra Barrios Vélez

Authors Interviewing Characters: María Alejandra Barrios Vélez

The Waves Take You Home In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges, the death of her grandmother brings a young woman home, where she must face the past in order to become the heir of not just the family restaurant, but her own destiny. […]

March 19, 2024 | By | Reply More
Beware the Tall Grass: A Mother’s Love, A Soldier’s Courage, A Writer’s Journey 

Beware the Tall Grass: A Mother’s Love, A Soldier’s Courage, A Writer’s Journey 

Beware the Tall Grass: A Mother’s Love, A Soldier’s Courage, A Writer’s Journey  I’ll never forget where I was when I got the idea for my debut novel Beware the Tall Grass. I was in the car with my husband on the kind of long road trip that takes you away from all your distractions […]

March 15, 2024 | By | Reply More
Excerpt: The Wedding Party by L. R. Jones

Excerpt: The Wedding Party by L. R. Jones

For a bride-to-be and her fiancé, secrets and lies make this a killer celebration in this psychological suspense. Carrie and Oliver. A couple completely in love and the hosts of a wedding to remember at Colorado’s legendary Stanley Hotel. This is Carrie’s fairy tale come true. Her fiancé, Oliver, is Mr. Tall, Dark, and Handsome; […]

March 11, 2024 | By | Reply More
Truth + Tall Tale = Falling Through the Night 

Truth + Tall Tale = Falling Through the Night 

Truth + Tall Tale = Falling Through the Night  Featured first on https://lgbtqreads.com/ I’m pretty ordinary in most ways: middle class, awkward, bookish. I’m a mom and I live in a small city and I’m an omnivore. But some of my experiences have been a bit out of the ordinary: Giving up a child for […]

March 9, 2024 | By | Reply More
The Berlin Letters by Katherine Reay, Excerpt

The Berlin Letters by Katherine Reay, Excerpt

THE BERLIN LETTERS Bestselling author Katherine Reay returns with an unforgettable tale of the Cold War and a CIA code breaker who risks everything to free her father from an East German prison. From the time she was a young girl, Luisa Voekler has loved solving puzzles and cracking codes. Brilliant and logical, she’s expected […]

March 5, 2024 | By | Reply More
CAROL J. CHUMNEY: ON WRITING

CAROL J. CHUMNEY: ON WRITING

CAROL J. CHUMNEY: ON WRITING Author of The Arena: One Woman’s Story Over the years, my dreams were of public service. Serving as a Tennessee state legislator and Memphis City Councilwoman, I achieved that dream in some respects. I never dreamed of writing a book. Yet, during an election for higher office in 2012, a […]

February 24, 2024 | By | Reply More
The Secret Life of A Publishing Company Part II

The Secret Life of A Publishing Company Part II

The Secret Life of A Publishing Company Part II In my first post, I outlined why Jurcell Virginia and I set up Inkspot Publishing www.inkspotpublishing.com, and I promised a blueprint for setting up a publishing company. The steps are not sequential, and if you decide to go ahead, you will find yourself engaged in all […]

February 16, 2024 | By | 1 Reply More
From Clichés to Complexity: Neda Aria’s Journey as Lilith Wilde in Reinventing Romance

From Clichés to Complexity: Neda Aria’s Journey as Lilith Wilde in Reinventing Romance

From Clichés to Complexity: Neda Aria’s Journey as Lilith Wilde in Reinventing Romance I began my literary journey wrapped in the anonymity of a pen name back in Iran between ages 19 to 21, crafting what I now view as ‘cheesy, mass-pleasing, marketable YA fiction’. Those days, although successful, are like distant shadows to the […]

February 14, 2024 | By | Reply More