by editor | Jan 5, 2018 | Articles, Guest Contributors, Writer to Writer, Writing Process
By Matt Harry, author of Sorcery for Beginners Bullying plays a key part in my debut novel Sorcery for Beginners. The main character, Owen Macready, is 13-years-old and the new kid at his school in Henderson, Nevada. He just wants to keep his head down, but one day,...
by Heidi K. Rojek | Dec 7, 2017 | Author Interviews, Writer to Writer, Writing Inspiration, Writing Process, Written
Interviewed by Meghna Hulsure Justine Avery is an award-winning author of stories large and small for all. Born in the American Midwest and raised all over the world, she has either lived in, or explored all 50, states of the union, more than 36 countries, and all but...
by editor | Sep 27, 2017 | Articles, Guest Contributors, Resources for Writers, Writer to Writer, Writing Inspiration, Writing Process
By LB Gschwandtner, author of The Other New Girl (She Writes Press, Sept. 26, 2017) Here’s a fine, standard piece of writing advice. Every writer has heard it. “Write what you know.” But what does it really mean? In Jann Martel’s The Life Of Pi, a boy is...
by editor | Sep 21, 2017 | Articles, Book Publishing, Guest Contributors, Writer to Writer, Writing Process
By Barbara Sinor, Ph.D., Author of Finding Destiny (Marvelous Spirit Press, 2016) As I sit at my keyboard this morning, I begin to wonder if another book resides within me. I promised my readers there would be a sequel to my novel; in fact, my publisher stated this at...
by editor | Jul 27, 2017 | Articles, Writer to Writer, Writing Process, Written
Tell us a bit about yourself and your background. I was born December 31, 1949 and am 67 years old. I was raised in the produce fields of the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas and in the chile pepper, cucumber and cabbage fields in Muleshoe, Texas. At an early age, I...
by editor | Jul 26, 2017 | Articles, Author Events, Book Marketing, Book Publishing, News + Features, Writing Inspiration, Writing Process
Barry Eisler, beloved and prodigious author of thrillers, celebrated the release of his thirteenth novel, Zero Sum, at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park, CA recently. During the introduction, author Keith Raffel aptly compared Eisler to John le Carré for his...
