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December 3, 2024
How are words like animals?
I recently read the book Words as Eggs by Jungian analyst Russell Lockhart. The idea for the work, and the chapter from which the title comes, originated in one of Lockhart’s dreams. A voice in his dream said “Do you not know that words are eggs, that words carry life, that words give birth?” (92). …
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November 25, 2024
MICHELLE CAMERON is back to tell us about her new novel NAPOLEON’S MIRAGE!
Welcome to Michelle Cameron, the author of Jewish historical fiction. Her most recent is Napoleon’s Mirage, the sequel to Beyond the Ghetto Gates. Previous work includes Babylon: A Novel of Jewish Captivity, a finalist in religious fiction in the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, the award-winning Beyond the Ghetto Gates and The Fruit of Her Hands: the story of Shira …
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November 11, 2024
The Drama of Dramatizing your Thoughts
I’m sitting in a classroom, facing my expository writing students. They stare blankly at me after spending the past few weeks together, delving into the essay’s puzzles, reading and writing, talking and thinking. I’ve just urged them to try to dramatize their thinking on the page. I say, “Most professional writers do it automatically.” But …
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November 4, 2024
Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop believes Resistance often begins in art: WRITING NO MATTER WHAT!
Writing No Matter What Resistance often begins in art As we sit here the week before the US elections and to my mind, the most important election in my lifetime, I wonder as I often have in the past, what’s the point of continuing to write in the face of all that worries the world. …
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October 28, 2024
Writers as Thieves
When I picked up Marguerite Duras’ The Lover, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I knew she was considered one of France’s most important literary figures, but The Lover was the first work of hers that I had read. The back cover claims that The Lover is “an exquisite jewel of a novel,” but it’s …
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October 23, 2024
Who is Curva Peligrosa? Read on!
Curva Peligrosa, who entered this world in September 2017, has just turned seven. Who, you may ask, is Curva, and why should I care about her? If you’re also a Regal House Publishing author, you’ll want to give tribute to Curva Peligrosa as one of the first novels released by Regal House, now a well-established and …
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October 14, 2024
Do cities enrich your writing? See what guest author ELIZABETH WINTHROP ALSOP has to say!
I’m grateful that I live in a big city where I am forced to rub up against people who are not like me. On the subway, I sit next to human beings of all ages and skin colors and shapes. In the streets, I see people in wheelchairs, joyful children, panhandlers down on their luck, …
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October 7, 2024
Meet Valerie Nieman whose upcoming novel presents the Macbeth’s you’ve never known!
Valerie Nieman’s historical novel, Upon the Corner of the Moon, is now available for pre-order with the release set for March 2025. This is the story of the Macbeths you never knew, rightful rulers who united Scotland in the tumultuous 11th century. The second of the two ALBA books, The Last Highland King, will appear in 2027. In the …
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September 30, 2024
Where does fiction come from? Not AI!
Whenever I give a talk or reading, someone in the audience asks where my stories come from. I find the answer more complex that what it would appear to be on the surface. What are my narrative seeds? What starts me on these explorations of others’ lives? One of my bios states “Lily sprouted on …
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September 23, 2024
Thanks to guest author Susan Wadds’ evocative thoughts on the writing life!
Winner of The Writer’s Union of Canada’s Prose Contest in 2016, Susan Wadds‘ work has appeared in carteblanche, The Blood Pudding, Room, Waterwheel Review, and many more. The first two chapters of her debut novel, What The Living Do, (Regal House Publishing, 2024), won the Lazuli Group’s Prose Contest, and were published in Azure Magazine. What the Living Do was a …
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