The last thing I wanted was to fail those men, those heroes who did not fail me, and I sometimes succumbed to emotional inertia in keeping things moving. Probing the depths of that part of my life proved formidable. The lingering memories often take away my breath and burn my soul.
Darren Walton – 6 December 2023 Continue reading
As a child, I was always concerned by existential threats to humanity so much so that when my parents built a house in central Virginia, I insisted that a bomb shelter be included. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, we were probably the only family in central Virginia with the means to withstand a nuclear attack.
R. Chapman Wesley – 3 December 2023 Continue reading
The book follows a special forces group and a journalist who is trying to tell a story about why they do what they do. The catch is they are sent on a hostage rescue operation on a remote planetoid.
E.L. Grover – 30 November 2023 Continue reading
Actions have consequences. Battles and killings have a lasting impact on our psyches. We are all influenced by our parents, our childhood, our experiences, and who we become as adults reflects all we have experienced.
Shiva Kumar – 28 November 2023 Continue reading
Opening up and being vulnerable can be challenging, but it is also rewarding, and looking back, it has helped me connect with readers.
Chrissy Holm – 26 November 2023 Continue reading
I remember as a kid I couldn’t wait for each Harry Potter book to come out. The one thing I did not like was having to wait such a long time for the next book to be published. I decided that if I ever became an author, I would speed up the process.
Miguel Angel Hernandez Jr – 24 November 2023 Continue reading
Some of the many questions I wanted to ask in this book were; who are we when everything is stripped away, how do we find the courage to continue in the face of hopelessness, and what comes after our time here?
Sophia Conway – 22 November 2023 Continue reading
Needing to write a memoir was one thing. But wanting to visit all the pain and shame and trauma, being naked and on display, and risking judgment and the possible disdain of readers—such wanting was hard to imagine. Would all that really be required, I wondered, in order to share my story with candor? It would. It did.
Terry Crylen – 20 November 2023 Continue reading
To be quite honest, the writing of this entire book was a struggle. I opened up childhood wounds, and, in some cases, they were things I hadn’t shared in treatment or counseling. I began bleeding those stories onto the page. There were numerous triggers while writing the book and some nightmares reliving the abuse.
Maya Golden – 18 November 2023 Continue reading
One of my favourite pieces of writing advice I ever heard was, ‘write the book you want to read,’ and that’s what I do. It’s one of the freedoms of being an independently published writer. I’m not having to please an editor or a publisher. The only compromise I have to find is between writing the book I want to read and the book that ticks every commercial box there is.
Stephen Mellor – 16 November 2023 Continue reading