Month: June 2024

Inspired by Nature Nature has always been a source of inspiration for writers, and here we mean nature in the

Hello! I’m Alechia Dow, the author of The Sound of Stars, The Kindred, A Song of Salvation (all young adult

Before a character’s voice becomes clear to me, I have an early image and sense of that character in my

Riss M. Neilson is a magna cum laude graduate of Rhode Island College, where she won the English department’s Jean

When my fourth book, The Moon, The Stars and Madam Burova was published, I was described by one reviewer in

Want to be a bestseller? Dream of winning awards? Long to have your book in the hands of people who

Kimberly Belle worked in marketing and nonprofit fundraising before turning to writing fiction. A graduate of Agnes Scott College, Kimberly

For this week’s prompt, write a discarded poem. Let’s face it: We can’t keep everything! So this poem is about

Italo Calvino, in Six Memos for the New Millennium, his treatise on the art of writing fiction, holds that humor

I wrote my interactive memoir, How Much Is Enough? Getting More By Living With Less, to start a conversation. After three