At the end of a story or novel, you do not want the reader thinking. Endings are about emotion, and logic is emotion’s enemy. It’s the writer’s job to disarm...
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Survival is the story of Albert Wallace’s dramatic experiences during World War II as an air gunner with the RCAF and a prisoner of war in Hitler’s Germany. This work...
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Guest post by Alexandra Risen I haven't been a debut writer forever. It just feels that way. Likely because of how often...
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Inspired by a line from novelist Lydia Millet -- “We live in what we leave behind” -- Steve Rotschild began writing his memoir, Traces of What Was, at the age...
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SANDRA SHAW HOMER was a guest speaker at my first Costa Rica writers' retreat (2012) and a co-organizer for my second (2015). I can’t imagine why my father picked...
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Watch the book trailer for North of Normal: Read also Part 1 of Cea's thought-provoking interview. As you wrote about your personal experiences in North of Normal, did...
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