What? As a writer and teacher, I have always had a relationship with paper and structure. My current obsession is lampshades. I take them apart and rebuild them in more interesting ways. I had a friend who was experimenting with water on silk shades, and she inspired me. Later my daughter was having a bad day, and I knew the cure was making something. We put an old lampshade on a broomstick, … [Read more...]
Brief History of a Forty-Year Long Marriage
The Luv Pub It sounds like a cliche: I met my husband after last call in the Brown Derby Luv Pub in Independence, OH, where people danced on a lighted disco floor to a live "house band." There might have even been a mirror ball. I was just twenty years old, drinking with a fake ID, and working as a waitress in the upscale Chinese restaurant Pan Asia, while going to art school. He was pounding … [Read more...]
What, Why, How: Lisa Orchard
What? Before I became an author I was an Insurance Agent for thirteen years. I met people from all walks of life and gathered all kinds of material for my stories. I’ve known I wanted to be a writer ever since fifth grade, but it wasn’t until I decided to stay home with my kids that I began to pursue publication. My first novel The Super Spies and the Cat Lady Killer is the story of three quirky … [Read more...]
If that man were you – a video
This YouTube video is a reading of an excerpt from In the Context of Love . Second-person Narrative Angelica talks to (the absent) Joe, recalling the time they drove down Route 21 past the steel mills and factories into downtown Cleveland. The time setting is in the mid-seventies. If that man were you... "Cuyahoga Iron Works, Republic Steel, and Cleveland Steel & Tubes pumped the … [Read more...]
What, Why, How: E. Ardell
What? What do you mean “what”? Haven’t you heard? My new YA Science Fiction Fantasy book, The Fourth Piece is out now! Ha-ha, just kidding. I’m not that full of myself. I’m a newly published author. I was discovered by a small press called 48fourteen. The publisher loved the concept and the manuscript and offered me a deal. What is it about? This is where I get to plug in my summary, because I … [Read more...]
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