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When I worked with high school students who had been removed for disciplinary reasons, I always worried about what would happen if the student were innocent—if the system had failed and punished an innocent person.

Brenda Vicars – 19 February 2015 Continue reading →

I always assume when I am writing I am just writing down these common sense thoughts, or feelings. It isn’t until I have space that I realize how deeply engrossed I was in the emotional world of the book. I literally in some weird ways become the story, and one person’s hardships become doorways and tunnels into me expressing my own.

Suzanne Steinberg – 15 February 2015 Continue reading →

I was in an independent study with my favorite writing teacher, Fred Miller Robinson (at the time he was married to Marilynne Robinson, who hadn’t published her first book yet). I didn’t have the experience or the guts to handle the sexual aspects of it back then, though as I recall he tried to gently suggest that that it needed to go there.

Sandra Hutchison – 12 February 2015 Continue reading →

Oh, no. I can’t listen to music when I write. I’ll start singing and dancing, and never get any work done.

Martin Roy Hill – 8 February 2015 Continue reading →

I lost friends when I was a teenager, and the loss never goes away. Loss is also a constant companion for every person on his or her life journey.

Paige Crutcher – 5 February 2015 Continue reading →

In order to write a book like this, a lot of people have suggested that I have to be a little crazy myself. I’m actually fairly normal. Well, sometimes.

Kelly Stone Gamble – 1 February 2015 Continue reading →

Lebensborn children were conceived during the Second World War as part of a Nazi experiment to create a superior race. The children were fathered by high-ranking German officers and genetically-viable women of Scandinavian descent.

Marta Tandori – 25 January 2015 Continue reading →

I know my books tend to do best with readers who favor clean romances and nostalgic views of the past, but I don’t write novels with any particular group in mind. I try to appeal to as many readers as possible by using timeless, universal themes and moving beyond the limits of genre.

John A. Heldt – 22 January 2015 Continue reading →

Also, don’t be afraid to put yourself out there. You can’t just write something and wait for discovery. 

Lidy Wilks – 18 January 2015 Continue reading →

So many of us have things we intend to do “one day.” For me, writing books was always one of those things I thought maybe I’d get to, eventually. Honestly, not to be too cheesy, but writing books has changed my life, in so many ways. If there’s something a reader has always wanted to try but maybe has been afraid of, for whatever reason, I say go for it. Give yourself permission to “fail,” and then jump in. You’ll never know if you don’t try.

Pam Stucky – 15 January 2015 Continue reading →