When I was 10 years old, I tried to write a novel. I don’t remember all the details, but it was a love story about two people who help each other heal. I wasn’t able to finish it when I was 10. I think the seed lived inside of me my entire life.
Patricia Leavy – 18 March 2025 Continue reading
I aimed Fires Burning Underground toward upper middle grade readers—so more in the age 11 to 13 range. The ideal reader probably feels caught between childhood and adolescence, is contemplating belief systems and what they want to subscribe to, and/or is seeking affirmation for their identities
Nancy McCabe – 12 April 2025 Continue reading
One of my mentors told me that I had to let my characters get in trouble. That was my struggle: to write these complicated and unlikeable women without trying to justify or rationalize their petty actions.
Brandi Bradley – 15 March 2025 Continue reading
As a New Yorker, you could not help but be changed forever down to your emotional DNA with the way COVID ravaged the population. The city that never sleeps became a vast wasteland of masked zombies too scared to greet each other in passing, too frightened to come within spitting distance of anyone.
Lisa Fantino – 13 March 2025 Continue reading
It started out as an image: It’s night, a woman is standing in front of my father’s office and I have the sense that she is in some peril. Why? That’s the question I started with. Why is she there?
Jane Rosenthal – 11 March 2025 Continue reading
I get frustrated with romances where one spends so much time in the head space that nothing happens and where the same thoughts get said repeatedly in different words.
Jo-Anne Duffett – 3 March 2025 Continue reading
Every single day I write, read, or think about writing. It gives me purpose and brings me joy.
Marianna Marlowe – 28 February 2025 Continue reading
For all of my books I have a theme that guides the narrative. In this book the idea I wanted to address was ignorance and denial of science.
J.D. Rasch – 25 February 2025 Continue reading
I did not feel like I struggled with writing this book because I had been thinking about it for so many years.
Ilir Nina – 20 February 2025 Continue reading
After a twenty-year career in tech, I spent two years working for a (legal) California cannabis company. I’d drive to the factory every day from Los Angeles, cross the Cajon pass into the Mojave Desert, and pass by multiple cannabis grow, extraction, and manufacturing facilities that were interspersed between private, County, and State prisons.
Francesco Paola – 14 February 2025 Continue reading