Actual individuals inspired me, but I aimed to avoid creating them in a way that might seem exaggerated or unrealistic. If they recognize themselves positively, I’m delighted.
Wendy Gee – 12 June 2025 Continue reading
Anyone who wants to relax and have fun. You’re not learning anything with this book, but you’ll have a good time.
Christine Stringer – 10 June 2025 Continue reading
This journey has inspired a newfound purpose to advocate at the highest levels in government for aviation safety in hopes that no family suffer a similar tragedy.
Rossana D’Antonio – 7 June 2025 Continue reading
This was a labor of love, and to quote Shakespeare, “the course of true love never did run smooth.”
Martha Jean Johnson – 5 June 2025 Continue reading
In my mind, she had been abused and violated – I wanted to tell her story and give her a voice.
Sam Davey – 3 June 2025 Continue reading
I started the book quite a while ago but had to shelve it because I didn’t want my father to read it. In order to tell the story, I inevitably revealed the workings of some of his tricks and illusions. He would have been upset so I just couldn’t see it through.
Katy Grabel – 31 May 2025 Continue reading
So, it made all the sense in the world to write a crime thriller where the protagonist is a former Army counterintelligence agent (like me), battling PTSD (like I did), who gets in too deep with a criminal plot (which I have thankfully avoided—at least so far).
Jeremy D. Baker – 29 May 2025 Continue reading
Starting on the morning my son was born, I began writing a sentence each day about a moment I wanted to remember. Sometimes it was something simple — we went for a walk or sat in the grass. I kept this practice going for his first 100 days of life.
Talia Gutin – 27 May 2025 Continue reading
I always love my characters (even the nasty ones) because they allow me to “be” somebody else.
Diane Wald – 27 May 2025 Continue reading
When I was a sophomore in college, I took a literature class on the expatriate writers who gathered in Paris after the first World War (Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and Sherwood Anderson, among others). An optional book on the class syllabus was Living Well is the Best Revenge by Calvin Tomkins, the very first biography of the Murphys. Over the decades that followed, I never stopped thinking about them …
Kirsten Mickelwait – 27 May 2025 Continue reading