I fell in love with reading when I was a child. Books were comfort. They were exciting. Heartbreaking. Funny. Full of wonder. They were a place I could go to experience other lives and in doing so, learn how better to live my own. This is why I write: to say something about what it […]
I have always been somewhat amused by the phrase ‘Based on a True Story’ that I see on book covers and movie screens. The line is of course a marketing strategy to connect potential readers or viewers with what is essentially a fictional interpretation of an authentic, perhaps remembered, contemporary or historical event or situation, […]
I believe I’ve always been a writer at heart. Throughout my life, I have often been drawn to the craft as a path to emotional survival, to help process an overwhelming physical world. I came to write fiction after years of having buried many of my creative dreams under the tech company I’d started after […]
I’ve been a member of the Authors Guild for decades and I am proud to share my reflection for the #WhyWritersMatter campaign from The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC). Does writing matter? It does. Especially to the writer who draws stories from the raw material of their observations and transforms them into reflections fueled by […]
Why do I write? Well see, I come from a family full of southern women with big hair and even bigger mouths. And man, do we love to tell stories. One day a few years ago, I had a shower epiphany. ‘What if I tried to write down some of these stories rolling around in […]
For as long as we have recorded history, one of humanity’s great projects has been to seek some form of immortality. Religions are oriented toward life eternal and resurrection. Conquerors haven taken to the field in search of a name that would outlive their bodies. Legends speak of wellsprings of everlasting life. This pull toward […]
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