Author to Author: Eva Seyler and Rachel Lyon

Author to Author: Eva Seyler and Rachel Lyon

Eva Seyler’s and Rachel Lyon’s novels are set decades apart. In The War in Our Hearts, Eva tells a story of love conquering fear in the WWI era, and Rachel delves into the artist communities of Brooklyn in the late 1980s in Self-Portrait With Boy. In true writer fashion, however, they draw connections as they share each other’s inspirations and writerly process in their Author to Author conversation. Eva: Hi Rachel! Rachel: Hi Eva! So excited to be in discussion…

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Women Undercover: 6 Must Read Historical Fiction Tales of Intrigue and Disguise

Women Undercover: 6 Must Read Historical Fiction Tales of Intrigue and Disguise

by: Greer Macallister Historically, women have had to hide their true selves for many reasons. In fiction this can lead to some really intriguing stories, full of tension. As the readers, we know the woman’s true identity, but we relish seeing her forging her way under a different persona, at risk of grave danger if she ever lets the façade slip. In my new novel Woman 99, set in 1888, pampered San Francisco socialite Charlotte goes undercover in an insane…

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Author to Author: Randon Billings Noble and Amy Long

Author to Author: Randon Billings Noble and Amy Long

Aldous Huxley once said, “The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.” Both Randon Billings Noble and Amy Long have crafted essay collections that cover subjects as diverse as chronic pain, opioid use and addiction to depression and the longing that memories can elicit. Randon’s full-length collection, Be With Me Always, is available as of March 1, 2019. Amy’s debut essay collection, Codependence, will be released in September 2019. Check out their lively, vulnerable and…

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Scrunchies and Mixtapes: An Ode to the 1990s

Scrunchies and Mixtapes: An Ode to the 1990s

by: Trish Cantillon “Is that a scrunchie?”  I asked the Madewell salesgirl yesterday, pointing at a container filled with the 90s era hair bob with suspicion. The girl nodded enthusiastically, “Yes, aren’t they cute? They’re really popular!” Was that true? Were they cute and popular again? It immediately brought to mind my own jar filled with scrunchies, a pink neon fanny pack and my boom box.  I wondered, why are some things gone forever while others resurface? On a winter’s…

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To All the Cats I Loved Before

To All the Cats I Loved Before

By Andrea Crowley-Hughes To say that I have always loved cats is an understatement. As a teen growing up long before the days of Jackson Galaxy, I pored over a book about cat behavior. Relatives would get me cat calendars every year. My even younger self had a cadre of plush cats I carried with me from room to room. Before I turned seven, a friend and I carried away a cat who was having sticks pelted at her from…

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