Tips for Fiction Authors

Doing Your Own Thing by Cindy LaFerle

The secret to success in any creative venture, column writing included, is finding your own voice and sharing your unique…
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Review: Using Scrivener for Family History and Memoir Writing by Laura Hedgecock

“Because it’s known as a novel tool, I approached it from the standpoint of using it for Memoir and family…
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How I Got My Publisher By Annemarie Schiavi Pedersen

It started with a tweet. That’s how I got a publisher’s contract for my historical novel Celestina’s Burnings. Sounds crazy,…
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Writing in Detroit, about Detroit by Laura Bernstein

As a long-time Detroiter, one who is further (sometimes uncomfortably) compelled to write about her own life, it’s only natural…
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What it’s like to write a novel based on another novel

By: Sarah Shoemaker I’m sitting in my monthly book discussion group, and we are talking about Jane Eyre (every year…
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How Dark Fantasy Can Bloom into Light

by Veronica Dale My friend Bob, who writes delightful comedy, once asked me why I write dark fantasy. I explained…
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How does a progressive woman with southern roots confront the racial tension that exists in our country today? In these poems, Nancy Owen Nelson grapples with how to embrace her ancestry while resisting, as Rev. Dr. Stephen Butler Murray states, “the social sins that drench the soil of that beloved ground” on which her ancestors are buried. The poems move from the violence of the 2017 Charlottesville incident though Nelson’s family history, focusing on women who loved and sustained their families and men who, farmers, fought for the Confederacy, narrative accounts of former slaves, and finally, to the 20th century Civil Rights Movement.

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