When deciding which smidges of myself would go into those not-so-nice characters, I was reminded of the famous psychologist Carl Jung, and his concept of the “shadow”—the parts of us we’re not particularly fond of, and which we keep hidden away in the deep subconscious recesses of our psyche. For those not-so-nice characters, I mined suppressed tendencies—disagreeable and menacing—from my shadow.
Robert Steven Goldstein – 28 March 2025 Continue reading
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I try to write in a way that is accessible to readers with ordinary vocabularies, and I try to create worlds in which the reader can become immersed.
Iris Mitlin Lav – 25 March 2025 Continue reading
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My own uncertainty, along with imagining what my grandmother may have felt about never knowing her background, was a big part of my idea for this book.
Theresa Christine – 21 March 2025 Continue reading
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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