by: Greer Macallister Finding the right gift to give can be a challenge, and sometimes even if you’ve narrowed it down to a category, the exact right choice within that category can be unclear. Take, for example, books. If you have readers in your family or friend circle, you know they’ll appreciate a book, but how do you choose which one to give? You may or may not have a chance to check their shelves, and asking directly about their…
Rosalyn Rossignol and Louisa Deasey both have crafted memoirs that explore mysteries to which they have personal connections. They each had to travel geographically and through time in order to unravel the clues that ultimately led to profound personal discoveries and to the truth about the people they cared for very much. Louisa Interviews Rosalyn Louisa Deasey: What was your writing process for My Ghost Has A Name: Memoir of a Murder? Rosalyn Rossignol: Finding out and then speaking the truth…
Writers have their own unique paths, but oftentimes, there are commonalities that impact all who endeavor to put words on the page. Australian author Marissa Price and American author Melissa Holbrook Pierson touch on some of the universal challenges of being a writer– like finding time to create and staving off “impostor syndrome.” They also discuss the particular joy of being lost– and found– in a good story, regardless of whether one is reading it or writing it. Marissa Price:…
Each Thursday, we turn the reins over to authors who have published a book within the last year or who have one forthcoming in the next year in order to interview one another. But, there’s a twist—they don’t know each other ahead of time. This interview took place between Peg Alford Pursell and Melissa Duclos over the course of about two weeks via a digital document that they used to ask and answer questions. As authors, they found much common…
by: Madhvi Ramani In 2010, when Rachel Love Nuwer was conducting scientific research about how people living near two national parks in Vietnam used the forest, her attention was drawn to the subject of illegal poaching. What followed was a years-long investigation that took her from the waterlogged jungle at Vietnam’s southern tip to a traditional Chinese market in Guangzhou to a South African prison and a reptile zoo in Japan. Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking is…