The 5-Question [Writer] Interview: Beth Levine

The writer shares about finding her genre (rather, her genre finding her), no excuses and it being incomprehensible when people can’t write. Beth Levine is a veteran freelance writer. Her writing (personal essays, narrative, how-to…the list goes on) has appeared in many (MANY) national magazines including Reader’s Digest, Woman’s Day, Self, Redbook, Ladies’ Home Journal, [...]

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The 5-Question [Author] Interview: Brette Sember

“…just like a tree, I’m deeply influenced by the ground I’m planted in and whatever blows by….” —Brette Sember  Brette Sember is the author of The Parchment Paper Cookbook, published by Adams Media. She blogs about parchment paper cooking at www.NoPotCooking.com. She also writes the popular food blog www.MarthaAndMe.net. She is also the author of [...]

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The 5-Question [Creative] Interview: Whitney Ferré

The writer focuses on practicing choice, keeping a vision and seeing how positive and negative experiences are vital to success. Whitney Ferré is the author of The Artist Within, A Guide to Becoming Creatively Fit (Turner Publishing) and the founder of The Creative Fitness Center, which first gained national recognition on HGTV.  Whitney’s approach to [...]

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The 5-Question [Author] Interview: James Gough

“I’m a manipulative observer—a bit like Shakespeare’s Puck.” -James Gough JAMES GOUGH has been an actor and is an artist. In addition, his debut novel, CLOAK, was recently published by WiDō Publishing. ♦  MEREDITH: When you sit down to write, are you in charge? What I mean is this: are you the scribe or the master [...]

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The 5-Question [Writer] Interview: Kim Hooper

The writer thinks about intention, chronological order and connection to a story. Emerging voice Kim Hooper earned her masters in professional writing from USC, and is a senior level copywriter for a large advertising agency (you’ve seen her work on popular brands, believe me!). She recently completed her first novel and is at work on [...]

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The 5-Question [Author+Therapist] Interview: Rachel Ballon

The therapist, author and coach helps us explore the eternal question: Do you want to be a “writer” or do you want to write? Rachel Ballon, Ph.D., M.F.T., is a psychotherapist and international writing consultant, who has taught writing as a therapeutic tool to mental health professionals and health care practitioners at UCLA, UC Irvine, [...]

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TWJ Reflections: Revisiting Allison Winn Scotch, Andrew Tonkovich & James R. Spring

Today I want to revisit the past in a good way. As you know, sometimes I ask the same question of several authors knowing their answers will be different. This week we’re revisiting a single question I’d asked of three writers in previous full-length interviews (check them out). The variations in their answers only prove [...]

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The 5-Question [Author] Interview: Valerie Hobbs

The author talks about what she likes best about fiction writing, being a planner and how she gains perspective on rejection—the inner and the outer kind. VALERIE HOBBS is the author of several books including Defiance, which was a Kirkus Reviews Editor’s Choice and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. Back in [...]

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