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Embrace Your Voice: Buy a Book, Support a Cause

April 18, 2018 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Embrace your Voice Embrace Your Voice - April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. I'll donate $5 to The National Alliance to End Sexual Violence for each sale of my award-winning novel In the Context of Love from my Etsy store HERE during April. I'll even sign it for you. Read an uplifting coming-of-age story about a young woman who must rebuild her life after the discovery of a devastating … [Read more...]

Filed Under: In the Context of Love Tagged With: saam2018, sexual assault, shame, voice

What, Why, How: Carolyn O’Doherty

April 16, 2018 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

What I write young adult science fiction. At least, that’s what I’ve written so far. Rewind, which comes out in April 2018, is my debut novel so it’s hard to say what my writing will eventually encompass. I hope it will spread out over many topics, genres, themes . . . That said, the story ideas that grab me have so far all turned into: young adult science fiction. Rewind tells the story of a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: What, Why, How Tagged With: plot, science fiction, YA SciFi, young adult

What, Why, How: Caitlin McCarthy

April 9, 2018 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

What: I write dramatic feature screenplays and teleplays (original and spec). Feature scripts run between 90-120 pages. One-hour teleplays are typically 50-60 pages, and half-hour teleplays are 22-32 pages. While some writers don’t include act breaks in their teleplays, I like to use them. They can always be removed for outlets that don’t require commercial breaks. In every kind of script, each … [Read more...]

Filed Under: What, Why, How Tagged With: idol talk, outlines, screenplay, screenwriter, television

Things Couples Fight About

April 2, 2018 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Same old same old: According to Marriage and Family counselor Dr. John Gottman, 69% of the conflicts in marriage will never be solved. That means we are having the same argument over and over again. The little things My husband and I have been married a long time. Nearly 42 years. We've learned to work most things out without any hair-pulling or foot-stomping. For example, I hate that, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: It's Personal Tagged With: conflict, family, humor, marriage

What, Why, How: Leslie Pietrzyk

March 19, 2018 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Leslie Pietrzyk fiction writer

What: I’m a writer who has been writing and loving books since always…yes, one of those kids walking to school with an open book clutched in both hands, reading. My new novel SILVER GIRL is just out, and while it’s not about me exactly, the ripples from a complicated female friendship I had in college inform the action. The book’s set in 1980s Chicago, during the time of the Tylenol murders, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: What, Why, How Tagged With: Fiction, idol talk, narrator, novel

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Award- winning writer, poet & artist. Cynical optimist. Super klutz. Corgi fan. Author of two novels, a children's picture book, and five poetry chapbooks. More here.

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