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- Sep 4, 2018
- 3 min
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...


- Aug 30, 2018
- 4 min
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...


- Aug 28, 2018
- 5 min
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...


- Aug 24, 2018
- 7 min
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...


- Jul 6, 2018
- 5 min
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...


- Jul 2, 2018
- 4 min
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...


- Jun 28, 2018
- 3 min
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...


- Jun 28, 2018
- 2 min
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...