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Please welcome debut author, Barbara Monajem. Barbara Monajem wrote her first story in third grade about apple tree gnomes. After dabbling in neighborhood musicals and teen melodrama, she published a middle-grade fantasy when her children were young. Now her kids are adults, and she writes paranormal and historical romance for grownups. She lives in Georgia…
By Marilyn Baron Last year, I had the enjoyable experience of co-authoring a book, THE EDGER, with my sister Sharon Goldman, an award-winning landscape artist from Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, where our story is set. Sharon has lofty goals. She imagines us appearing on “Oprah,” and touring the country together signing our book. Being an…
After thirteen years of off-and-on novel writing and three years of grad school, craft is a dirty word to me. Fortunately for my parents and unfortunately for me, I have always been an overachieving student. Imagine my frustration when I realized that writing, unlike other academic subjects, could not be mastered by learning a few…
A Pirate of Her Own by Kinley MacGregor Avon ISBN 978-0—06-108711-0 Serenity James wants to be a reporter in the 1770s when women aren’t allow to do such things. Because her father owns a newspaper she manages to slip in an article about the Sea Wolf, the pirate she admires for helping men that…
By Debbie Kaufman Sun Tzu, The Art of War (approx. 400 B.C.) Revisions are something we all bemoan. Who among us doesn’t want to just write the daggone thing and just be done? Rita Herron, one of my favorite Intrigue authors, reminded me the other day of this sage writer’s adage when she suggested some…
