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 […]
I’ve always written. True stories. Stories that come from travel. I can’t write about what I don’t know so everything I have ever written has been a recount of something ridiculous that has happened to me from falling down a squat toilet in Nepal to commandeering a horse from local Mexicans for a tequila mission. […]
I began writing in early 2013 after discovering a love for reading in the new adult genre. As the mother of a severely autistic child, both reading and writing became a means of escape from the stresses of daily life. It was also a way to manifest the fantasies that had always run through my […]
By Jennifer McCartney Warren Adler is best known as the author of The War of the Roses, the 1981 million-copy bestseller about a divorcing couple that became a blockbuster film starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. His latest release, Torture Man, comes 35 years after the publication of his first bestselling book. What readers likely […]
I write because I have stories to tell. As a shy young girl, I was afraid to talk to people, but I could write. I poured my heart onto paper, creating new worlds for myself and occasionally for my teachers who encouraged me to write more. Later, I became a lawyer who integrated peacemaking and […]
The writing bug hit me at seven years old, when I created a story about ninjas stealing my mother’s car, and it never really let go. Writing is the main thing that enables me to make sense of this weird world, and I often discover what or how I think about a given subject as […]
One of the imponderables of the fiction writing trade is just how much physical description is enough in order to fully flesh out a character’s identity. In years past many novels contained illustrations that purported to show images of the characters as conceived by the author. A prime example would be the work of Hablot Knight […]
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