Oct 29, 2019
Sarah grew up in the south, a fan of writers like Eudora Welty and Flannery O’Connor. Her novel began as a short story based on a Hemingway vignette and that idea became the middle of her book as she wrote both forward and backwards to complete the arc. Now she’s working to master the art of Amazon rankings which...
Oct 15, 2019
Lorelei spent two years in Pakistan as part of a US funded project to train local teachers (even receiving a death threat from the Taliban), then turned her observations into a novel centered on an articulate, educated woman living in a culture vastly different than our own. Now she relishes sharing her expertise with...
Sep 30, 2019
After a successful career in higher-education administration, Ellen moved to writing. Her first two novels, both of which caught the attention of agents, nevertheless failed to find a home, but she didn’t quit and her current book got 3 immediate offers from agents and sold to a Big Five publisher within one month....
Sep 13, 2019
An ex-lawyer who specialized in divorce cases, Leanne took her years of knowledge and turned it into a novel, (write what you know, right?) complete with quarreling spouses headed for divorce who wind up on a tropical island on a new reality show aimed at reuniting warring couples. Hear her thoughts on working with...
Sep 3, 2019
Kathleen's novel (first released as Are You Sleeping) grew out of her fascination with the true-crime podcast Serial which she juxtaposed with a NaNoWiMo story line involving characters she’d been writing about since high school. The result was a hugely successful debut which sold at auction, went on to be optioned...