Oct 30, 2020
Hear how Jacquline uses private Pinterest boards to help flesh out her characters, how she had great fun fashioning her antagonist by channeling every person in her life who’d wronged her, and how her previous work at a health club, with its behind-the-scenes intrigue, inspired the setting for her debut novel.
Oct 22, 2020
In this free-wheeling interview with Carol LaHines we discuss what led her to decide to attempt a novel, pre-Bach musical theory, her best writing advice, and how she injected deadpan humor into a story that centers around her protagonist’s grief at the death of his mother. Hers novel was a finalist for the Nilsen...
Oct 15, 2020
Diane comes to women’s fiction after publishing three romance novels but feeling like this story didn’t revolve around a interpersonal relationship so much as a woman discovering her true self through transforming not only her body but her inner essence as well. A big fan of NaNoWriMo, Diane intends to participate...
Oct 10, 2020
William's debut has been described as Where the Crawdads Sing meets Ghost and definitely fits in the women's fiction/book club fiction space. He shares with me how listening to his editor’s ideas resulted in expanding a part of his novel which has since become a moving touchstone for readers. And if you’ve ever...
Oct 5, 2020
Dianne relates how she began writing to figure out how to integrate emotions into the philosophical theories she had studied and taught as a professor, how she decided to go with a hybrid publisher, and how, while doing research for her book, she learned to play the trumpet and has now "blown her horn" during travels...