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THRILLERFEST FIRST-TIMERS TELL US In May, I wrote an article about my experience attending ThrillerFest (the annual conference of the International Thriller Writers – ITW) for the first time, including…
How Yi Shun Lai advocates for marginalized voices. Yi Shun Lai is a writer, editor, columnist for the Writer magazine, an MFA program instructor at Bay Path and Southern New…
Writing professor Susan Shapiro is a master in the art of the essay—both writing them and selling them to paying outlets. In her book, THE BYLINE BIBLE—Get Published in 5…
In this textured tale about Punjabi Indian women and sexual taboos, Balli Kaur Jaswal masterfully juxtaposes modern and traditional, West and East, and each generation’s definition of oppression, with a murder…
OK. I admit it. I’m old-school. I learned to include two spaces after each period. Then after following this golden rule for thirty years (I know, this really dates me),…
Since I’d decided to write about reincarnation, what prior life would my heroine experience? The practice of child labor in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries really intrigues me,…
Ever wonder how authors make characters so realistic? Like you could walk around in their skin and understand exactly what they’re thinking? My article in The Writer magazine discusses two…
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