Anyone who writes knows that rejection is as natural to the pursuit of publication just as the night follows the day. Rejection is like death: it happens to all of us. Off the top of my head, I cannot think of any story or anecdote about any writer who has never received a rejection of some…
Imagine working as a writer full time on your sailboat in Honolulu, Hawaii. Patricia Wood doesn’t have to use her imagination. She is living this dream. Her sailboat? A 48 foot ketch called Orion. This hasn’t always been the case. According
Bird lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and eighteen-year-old son who is about to enter graduate school. Her latest release How Perfect is That will be released this summer. I hope you enjoy reading about this witty and entertaining author.
When I sit down to write, the t.v. has to be off, the dog had to be sleeping and the husband has to be busy doing something other than talking to me. I also need the right temperature and generally, no other noise like music (although sometimes I throw on something classical to drown out…
BIW Member Interview Carol Williams lives in upstate New York, she’s now single, has three grown children and six amazing grandchildren to whom she is affectionately known as their “hip-hop Nanny” because she doesn’t sit still much – dancing, hiking, traveling — a regular social butterfly. She has a BA in Human Development and is…
While researching some authors to interview on the Literary Fiction site at BellaOnline, I came across Elizabeth Gilbert’s website and some of her “thoughts on writing”. If you are not familiar with the name, Gilbert is the author of such books as The Last American Man and Eat, Pray, Love. Many of her stories have…
Fred Hobsen said, “The loneliest people in the world we writers are.” But really, it is not that writers are lonely so much as they work alone and spend a lot of time alone with imaginary characters. If writers were genuinely lonely these might be a few reasons why: Feel free to add your own…
Twelve novels, two short story collections, a non-fiction book, and one of a two-volume project on Becoming a Writer stand as an honorable reflection of this author’s career. Gail Godwin, a three-time National Book Award nominee, has been writing