Musings

For Margaret Izard, it’s about layering history and myth into the very bones of the story—giving the magic weight and grounding the fantasy in a world that feels real. ...Each story in the [Stones of Iona] series focuses on the search for a magic Fae stone, a Stone of Iona. Via a Fae fable, the characters learn which stone needs finding. Blending the fable into the plotline and how it unfolds became the series’ backbone.

On Enchanted Forests and Elemental Magic: An Interview with Barbara Robinson, author of A Cure for Spring Fever (The Wild Rose Press).

Skyward: Memories of childhood become faded things. Sometimes the details escape us. So, we fill them in with our imagination.

FOX TALE by Author Karen Hulene Bartell is a paranormal romance set in Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan.

I have a new found love for writing poetry despite adamantly declaring, "I'm not a poet," for years.

Interview with Karen Hulene Bartell, author of KISSING KIN.

On that particular day, I was on the city bus on the way home from school playing the “what if” game... This is the day I met Paolo.

I love the ocean. I revel in the sound of the waves sweeping to shore. The sound sometimes loud enough to drown out all others.

The characters I least expect to hear, sometimes talk the loudest and demand their stories be told.

The Scent of Coffee. As a writer, I rely on the sense of smell to enrich a scene and help make the storytelling all that much deeper.

Interview with C.J. McGroarty, author of CLARA IN A TIME OF WAR.

When I was kid, I collected unicorns—trinkets, books, and pictures. In fact, like most children, I was enthralled by anything magical.

In July 1977, my brothers treated me to a movie and those events cemented my love for Space Opera.

When I'm writing, music sets the stage and shows me history in a very active way. With it, I travel through time, and I’m immersed.

Music and books go together like two sides of the same coin. I could not have one without the other. Each book I write has a soundtrack.

This is the story of how my sister handed me a book and I fell in love with a whole genre.

I've discovered so much in the world of books and stories. There are those that I’ve wished I hadn’t read so I could experience them again.

Welcome to My Worlds Where mermaids hide in the ocean depths and ghosts communicate with the living... Hello! I'm Joie Lesin. Joie for...