I’d also love for readers of all genders, and especially other generations, to feel curious about the differences in how we were raised, or what we might have been facing culturally at the time of our coming-of-age—and how we might have more in common than we think.
Jenna Tico – 5 October 2024 Continue reading
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I love these characters. Even the nefarious ones. So fleshing out the storyline and bringing them together came easily.
Lisa Diane Kastner – 3 October 2024 Continue reading
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My target reader is anyone who is concerned about humanity’s evolutionary journey and the predicament we currently find ourselves in, where the state of the world geopolitically does not accurately reflect our emotional and psychological maturity. Emotional and spiritual intelligence certainly do not rule global affairs. We need to do better at managing global resources and international peace.
Adrian Emery – 1 October 2024 Continue reading
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The Others and The Council Trilogy are also a way of dealing with my unease over the polarization of politics in this country and how moderates have been robbed of their voice. I gave them magical powers to help get things back on track!
Evette Davis – 29 September 2024 Continue reading
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I had loved the book, Watership Down, and had always wanted to write my own story that had animal protagonists.
A.T. Balsara – 29 September 2024 Continue reading
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Once I gave myself permission to open my mouth, the stories came faster than I could type. I’d read that writing memories longhand accesses detail and emotion far better than typing, so I wrote and doodled and drew lines between places we moved and the bad guys who came with us.
Bridey Thelen-Heidel Continue reading
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I struggled at times when writing about the dangerous aspects of trips I went on; reliving them through writing was sometimes a challenge.
Linda Murphy Marshall – 24 September 2024 Continue reading
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There’s a quote that’s been attributed to many different people, but it goes: “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” I don’t believe you need to be a suffering artist to create art, but it’s difficult to sort through a past as traumatic as mine to piece together something beautiful.
Ginelle Testa – 22 September 2024 Continue reading
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Sharing the more unpleasant times and behaviors were difficult for me, although that’s the very reason I committed to writing it all down. I didn’t want to sugar-coat the experience.
Cindy Eastman – 21 September 2024 Continue reading
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I like to write in absolute silence – or as close to that as I can get. That allows me to listen to what my mind is telling me to do next.
Carolyn J Nicholson – 19 Sept 2024 Continue reading
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