Writer's Voices

“You can’t exactly argue with what grips you…I began to imagine characters that became a part of the book, when I was seventeen.” H.S. Cross chronicles the progress of her imagination and shares a passage from her new novel Grievous. “”I think that ( this novel is) for people who really love to get lost Read More

Don’t let yesterday take up to much of today.

“A lot of my crime fiction writing (has) dealt with the study of violence, the philosophy behind violence, why people do it and just as important, how it affects them afterwards.” E. A Ayer talks about the genre of crime fiction and his new novel – The Unrepentant. I see crime fiction writers as “trying Read More

No matter if your past is full of violence and darkness your future is as spotless as you want it to be.

“This is a story of a great superstition and a great love.” So begins our interview with Sofia Segovia, creator of The Murmur of Bees, a novel of historical fiction and magical realism. ” I want to write the human experience, I want to write the human condition in a historical moment and I want Read More

As a citizen of this universe we all have problems, but we need to remember this: there’s only one race, the human race.

“I went from a household where I was not enough to a marriage where I was not enough.” Jane Pollak talks about the dissolution of her marriage and the writing of her memoir – Too much of not enough. “What I talk about in the memoir is how I came to value myself so much Read More

To accept the things I cannot change. To posses the courage to change the things I can. And to have the wisdom to know the difference.

“It’s about experiences that are sort of unopened and what happens when you really open them up and look at them.” Songwriter and poet Doug Hoekstra shares his insights into life and poetry, talking about his new collection of poems – Unopened. ” All art does that, it forces you to unopen your life and Read More

“I was walking down the street in New York City and just lines of poetry started to drop into my head.” Laurie Halse Anderson speaks about her memoir in verse – Shout. ” I was thinking about the thousands and thousands of ( survivors of sexual abuse) who have shared their stories with me…. and Read More