It is my survival story. To grow, move forward, and heal, I began to journal. Through the journaling and the way people’s eyebrows would draw up when I spoke about my life and the compliments I’d receive for my positive outlook despite all I had gone through, it began to open things up that I felt called to share.
Brandi Dredge – 25 October 2024 Continue reading
I hope I did justice to presenting border issues in a way that sheds light on the humans involved. There is so much more to this issue than what we are shown on the news.
Stephanie Vasquez – 22 October 2024 Continue reading
My novel is a work of fiction that is informed by my personal experiences and perspectives. In my first career, I was an adoption consultant. I never forgot my clients—not the couples, not the adoptees, and especially not the birth parents. I carried their stories with me, as well as the knowledge that our brief time together changed all our futures.
Zelly Ruskin – 19 October 2024 Continue reading
Two things struck me about most discussions of longevity enhancement: increased longevity tends to be viewed as a luxury product for the rich and the few; and no one discusses the economic and social stresses that a radically longer (even if healthy) lifespan would impose on individuals, on families, and on society at large.
Keith G. McWalter – 17 October 2024 Continue reading
It sparked such excitement in me. I didn’t realize at the time that it was my soul wanting to get going writing in a similar style, with a mix of sometimes absurd humor and sweetness.
Patti Calkosz – 15 October 2024 Continue reading
There are small pieces of other people I love or admire sprinkled across different characters, but the most fun thing about creating characters is watching them take on lives of their own that you didn’t plan for and certainly never imagined.
Kate Keridan – 10 October 2024 Continue reading
Texas is the wintering home for the only wild flock of the endangered Whooping Crane and a big attraction for birders in the Gulf area. Coincidentally, I learned that the Whooping Crane mates for life. I thought this was the perfect Crane to “star” in my romance.
Diane Owens Prettyman – 10 October 2024 Continue reading
The idea for The Mirror Realm was spawned from my husband discovering a hidden closet behind a mirror in our old apartment. It made me wonder: what if every mirror in the world led to a secret, hidden realm? Hence the Mirror Realm was born.
Lenore Borja – 8 October 2024 Continue reading
I had published 3 suspense novels dealing with military/political espionage. An editor suggested I try to expand into something a little more serious, literary. The immigration problems in our country attracted me.
Jospeh Bauer – 5 October 2024 Continue reading
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