Lea Wait: My Writing Journey

Mystery

- December 4, 2015August 29, 20160

I’ve wanted to be a writer since I learned to read. Growing up, I read everything I could, from cereal boxes to Shakespeare. Everything I read encouraged me to dream. I edited my high school newspaper (yes, a writerly cliché) and went on to major in both drama (writing plays)

Pamela K. Kinney’s path to publication

- December 3, 2015August 29, 20160

The creation of me as an author goes as far back to when I was eight years old. I began writing stories then—mainly animals and science fiction ones. I loved to scare the others kids into believing that the shed next door to the school playground actually had a ghost

Baby Talk with Judith Keim

women's fiction

- December 2, 2015August 29, 20160

Like most authors, I’ve always written stories. And as a young child, my sister and I played Librarian because books and our library were a big part of growing up. In the mid-80’s I wrote my first children’s story, sent it in to Highlights for Children and sold it. “This

Magical Romance with Margaret Locke

Romance

- December 1, 2015August 29, 20160

Don't tell my mom, but I started reading romance at the age of ten. I'd worked my way through all of the children's books available in the local bookmobile, so I turned to the adult section, where I spied a book with a woman in a flowing green dress on