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I think any kind of creative nonfiction or memoir writing produces struggles. In this one, I had to balance what I heard from my family about these three men with what I came to know about them and what I might speculate about them.

Gretchen Cherington – 9 June 2023 Continue reading →

I love to write about places I visit – traveling is my muse – and I wanted to share the adventure my husband and I undertook. I thought that perhaps it might propel others to embark on their own journey, or to simply enjoy ours from an overstuffed chair.

Marianne C. Bohr – 6 June 2023 Continue reading →

I wrote posts about issues I was facing–Empty Nest Syndrome, Boomerang kids, sex after sixty–in the hopes my candid stories could help other similarly situated women.

Liz Kitchens – 3 June 2013 Continue reading →

The research was probably the most challenging, because I’m apt to disappear down a rabbit hole of information whenever I’m on the internet searching for facts. Even though The Rogue Scorpion is fiction, I wanted to make sure my details held up. 

Lynda Faye Schmidt – 28 May 2023 Continue reading →

All of my books are PG rated and aimed at anyone who enjoys a good, clean, laugh and a fun adventure. 

Paul Flanagan – 25 May 2023 Continue reading →

The idea started when I was riding on the “L” in Chicago one day. Everyone’s faces were buried in their phones, and I thought, “I could strip naked and no one would notice.” Yet cameras hung from the subway car’s ceiling, so someone in fact could be watching. That made me wonder, if I was trying to protect someone I loved, how could I do that in a world with an increasing number of cameras, tracking, surveillance, and monitoring? 

Michael C. Bland – 22 May 2023 Continue reading →

A particularly difficult part about writing stories for this book is that they are, by design, breaking the rules of what we’re taught to share and talk about in our North American society. As such, writing these stories felt at times incredibly tender and poignant, and at other times incredibly raw, and exposing. This is why I believe that contributors showed so much courage in participating in this project.

Heather Hendrie – 19 May 2023 Continue reading →

Today, the concepts raised in the Pulstar trilogy and Nerve are my belief and my way of understanding the cosmos and existence.

Giancarlo Roversi – 16 May 2023 Continue reading →

The terror of the bear and the sense that I would never be big enough or smart enough to protect my children began my thinking about mortality—safety and peril. The experience of the bear was far more real to me than to them. 

Ann Putname – 13 May 2023 Continue reading →

I was shocked by the severity of abuse staring back at me from the page, and deeply troubled that I had dismissed it for so long. But perhaps the worst part to grapple with was the shame I carried. 

Francesca Miracola – 11 May 2023 Continue reading →