Giving Myself Over [Henry O. Arnold]
If I as a writer am to tell a story, I must give myself over to its peculiar flow. As the power of the story begins to rise up within me, I must sit down and write. I yield. I isolate. I watch and listen. I resist the temptation to manipulate, and I allow the…
A Letter from the Palace [Terrie Todd]
I won’t forget the day I received a letter from Buckingham Palace. In 2018, Queen Elizabeth II (QE2) was still alive and well in the sixty-sixth year of her seventy-year reign. My friend Lucy suggested I send Her Majesty a copy of my third novel, Bleak Landing. The book includes a scene from 1939 when…
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