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Peter Murphy: A Few Helpful Tips on Raising Writers

In this ongoing series of posts, I, without expertise, prejudice, or agenda, will share my insights and/or observations on writing about...

Peter Murphy: A Few Helpful Tips on Writing about Family

Writing about family can be a very dangerous business because not all families teem with the ideals of unconditional love and the...

Peter Murphy: Writing about Family

Just as the next (last) book is about to go out and meet the world, I got a nice message from my publisher informing me that the number...

Ken Goldstein: Three Thousand Ears in Cape Town

You're probably thinking there is a typo in that headline. Nope. It's correct. Not years. Ears. This is a story about service. This is a...

Ken Goldstein: Why Do We Do Difficult Things?

I've been out on book tour for the launch of my new novel, From Nothing. At one of the early talks I began with a simple question: Why do...

Susan Petrone: How to Throw Like a Woman

The idea for my novel Throw Like a Woman kind of sprang fully formed into my head during a bike ride. I’m a cyclist—I love the feeling of...

Marcia Gloster: Not Quite Benign

It seems simplistic in light of what has been transpiring since last fall (Harvey Weinstein et al, #metoo #timesup etc.), but a couple of...

Molly D. Campbell: What If?

Every novel has a premise. They start with just a whim or an idea in the author’s head. What if this happened? My novel Keep the Ends...

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