by Heidi K. Rojek | Sep 17, 2018 | Author Interviews, Podcast
After 17 years as a hairdresser, I retired from my career to focus full time on my true passions: my love of rescue pets, and helping my fellow humans. For the past 4 years, I have served as a Director for the Pasadena Humane Society & SPCA, and as an Ambassador...
by Brent Ledbetter | Jul 16, 2018 | Articles, News + Features
“African literature” is defined as literary works created by authors living in countries on the African continent, mainly lying south of the Sahara. In African literature, the traditions of numerous African peoples and the interwoven historical development...
by Susan Burrowes | Jul 10, 2018 | Articles, Book Marketing, Book Publishing, News + Features, Resources for Writers, Writer to Writer
I wrote my book quickly, taking months rather than years. I wrote it with the urgency of emotion, grateful that my addicted daughter was still alive and still willing to be part of our family after being sent to a brutal wilderness experience, a locked-down treatment...
by Laurie Buchanan | Jul 6, 2018 | Articles, News + Features, Writer to Writer, Writing Inspiration
Following thirteen months behind my only sibling was hard. Really hard. From elementary school on, she was a glowing student. Barely having to crack a book, she absorbed, digested, and understood information seemingly by osmosis, and had fun doing it. She maintained...
by Heidi K. Rojek | Jul 6, 2018 | Author Interviews, Podcast
Ed Piskor has been cartooning professionally in print form since 2005, starting off drawing American Splendor comics written by Harvey Pekar. The duo continued working together on two graphic novels: Macedonia, and The Beats. Ed began self-publishing Wizzywig after...
by Christie Nelson | Jul 2, 2018 | Articles, News + Features, Research, Resources for Writers, Writer to Writer, Writing Process
It’s been said novelists have been driven mad trying to move characters from one room to the next. Spatial arrangements are often not our forte. But stories are deeply rooted in settings. In fact, place holds a key role in fiction. Try to imagine Willa Cather’s novels...
