Kirsten Mortensen on the Best #Novel She Has Written So Far @KirstenWriter #AmWriting #Suspense

Under Their Skin. When Characters Become Real By Kirsten Mortensen I became a novelist so, so slowly! It’s not that I didn’t want to devote myself to fiction. I did. I’ve wanted to spin stories for peoples’ enjoyment ever since I was about five years old. But when...

THE GIRL WHO CAME BACK TO LIFE by Craig Staufenberg @YouMakeArtDumb #Excerpt #MGLit

Sophie woke at the table the next day before the sun rose and let habit and obligation drag her from her seat and pull her to the bakery. Setting her body in front of the floured marble table and searching her chest, she found a hole where her heart used to beat,...

10 Things You Need to Know About James Rada, Jr. @JimRada #CivilWar #HistFic #AmReading

10 Things You Didn’t Know About James Rada, Jr. I was asked to give you a little insight on me by telling you 10 things that you might not realize about me from author biographies that you see in the back of my books. My first short stories were published while...

#Excerpt from DOUBT - INSIDE/OUTSIDE by Jenny Hayworth @JennyHayworth1 #SexualAbuse #Memoir

Imagine that someone you love dies. You no longer can see them, speak to them, or touch them or have any literal experience with them except within your mind and heart. This is what being disfellowshipped or disassociated from the Jehovah’s Witnesses means to those...

Scott Moon on the Difficulty of Writing Sex Scenes in #SciFi @ScottMoonWriter #SelfPub #PubTip

The Best Advice At the Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc., 2013, Patrick Rothfuss (bestselling author of The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear) suggested writing sex scenes can be difficult. Someone asked, “How do you know when a scene is too much.” Rothfuss ...

#Excerpt from LUCIFER & THE INDIGO KIDS by @Lord_Ra_Krishna #Poetry #Life #AmReading

Me vs. God… Dread Locs on my head Like snakes on Medusa Get to close and you turn into stone If I were a girl Then I would be Medusa Tell Jay-Z and Kanye Get the f#ck out of my throne It's the clash of the Titans It's me vs. God They're just mad Because I stole...

#Excerpt from THE BEAUTIFUL AMERICAN by Marilyn Holdsworth @M_Holdsworth #AmReading #HistFic

ELIZABETH VISITS MADAME LA FAYETTE IN PRISON… from the novel, THE BEAUTIFUL AMERICAN, by Marilyn Holdsworth “Oh, no,” she wailed the moment the door opened revealing the two guards. “The guillotine,” she cried. “It is to be today. Dear God, dear God, have...