My debut book, Special, is not a memoir. As a self-help, special-needs parenting title, it shares shopping carts with taglines to the tune of: ‘A Mother’s Journey of Hope and Healing’, ‘A Mother’s Story of Grief, Hope …
The Writer Laid Bare
Going the Indie Route: A Guest Post by Pamela Cook
In September 2019 I self-published my fifth novel, Cross My Heart. Having had four books traditionally published before that, going down this path was not a decision I came to lightly. My writing career began in 2012 with the …
Journaling the Novel: A guest post by Kate Mildenhall
Journaling the new book
Daylesford – Musk House Nov 11, 2016
5.26 and close to knock off time. Splendid sun shining on the deck before me and the sheep and the grape vine and I’m all chilled and stretched and …
Writing against redemption
By nature, I am a confessional writer. The more difficult, dramatic, my life is – the better I actually fare. Artistically that is. And yet… It has taken me twenty years to dare to tell one of the most transformative …
Writing Violence: A Guest Post by Ashley Kalagian Blunt
It was only after several years of studying the Armenian genocide, in an effort to write about my family’s history, that I learned about the terrorist groups. There were two – the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, …
Writing Moral Ambiguity: A Guest Post by Kate Murdoch
When I sat down to write my second novel, The Orange Grove, it was the culmination of my love and preoccupation with everything French. I had studied the language for years and visited France numerous times. Yet what really …