Ellen Michaelson’s award winning novella – The Care of Strangers. ” It’s about how we take care of each other in challenging times. And it’s also about how we get beyond our family expectations to be who we want to be or to do what we want to do in life. It covers a lot Read More

Write a poem, Save your life, A Guide for Teens, Teachers and Writers of All Ages “Well it’s my story, and It’s what motivated me and put me on the mission to teach others and show others this incredible path of writing for healing and empowerment and self expression.” ” I think the really challenging Read More

“The book title: It’s called The Field House ; A Writer’s Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine. The Field House is the name of Rachel Field’s summer house. That is what it has been called for fifty years by Sutton Islanders. She called it – The Playhouse – because she used money Read More

Tracy Clark author of – Runner – the fourth in the Chicago Mystery series, talks about the research she did to give her novel authenticity “Once I knew that Cass ( the main character) had this sort of background in police work I took two police detectives, female, to breakfast. I said. Well, exactly how Read More

Anita Diamant and Melissa Berton the creators, respectively, of a book and an Oscar winning film dealing with menstrual injustice” – Period, end of sentence. Anita’s collection of essays was inspired by the film and her research. “The real question here is about dignity, One should be able to take care of ones necessary bodily Read More

Lori McMullen grew up in Florida. Her novel – Among the Beautiful Beasts – tells the story of the early life of Everglades advocate Marjory Stoneman Douglas. “Anybody who grew up in south Florida and went through the public school system … knows the name of Marjory Stoneman Douglas.” She is kind of a fixture Read More

“When we as white people adopted black children we learned that there was a whole lot that we did not know and we thought in writing this book that we could bring a perspective that might be helpful for white people in general.” Fern L. Johnson and Marlene G Fine share their insights in their Read More

When the Tempest Passes…and the Wicked is No More -is set in the l890’s; it’s author Linda Kephart-Nash tells her grandmothers story from the early the deaths of her siblings to the disappearance of the fiancé she loved so much and the humiliation of being left at the altar, “The wedding was set and the Read More

Romance writer RaeAnn Thayne talks about her novel – The Path to Sunshine Cove – and her motivations for writing. ” I like stories that make people feel good and that they can be happy at the end of the day, when they were reading them. That was sort of a better fit for my Read More

Gary Kelley talks about why he created his graphic novel – Moon of the Snow Blind, ” “My uncle ..taught me to draw, Gene Kelley, had a lot of books in his house, which was not far from where I was, growing up in Algona. Some of those books kind of got me attracted to Read More