by Hannah | Jan 16, 2018 | Books & Reading, From Hannah, Writing
Days after reading Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel and I am still thinking about it. But, I’ll be honest, its fantastical premise initially put me off. “One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a...
by Ria Voros | Nov 22, 2017 | Books & Reading, From Ria, Travel, Writing
Recently I got the chance to go away, as I have before, to write. Just write. (Well, maybe there was a wee bit of socializing. But not much.) I have a tight revision deadline for my latest novel, so any time I can grab to work on it, I take. And this time I had a...
by Hannah | Oct 26, 2017 | Books & Reading, From Hannah, Kids and Parenting
Okay folks, I can admit when I need help. And here I am, asking for it. As you know, I am a parent who happens to really, really, really dig kids books. Recently I started reading “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett to my two...
by Ria Voros | Jun 22, 2017 | Books & Reading, From Ria, Writing
It wasn’t hard to think of a subject to explore from A French Wedding because, while there are many I could chase down a rabbit hole (Pastries! Seaside villages! Lost loves!), there was one that whispered to me the whole read through: old friends. The people who knew...
by Hannah | Jun 7, 2017 | Books & Reading, From Hannah, Writing
Here at last, A French Wedding has hit the bookshelves in the U.S. and Canada. I had absolutely nothing to do with the beautiful cover so it’s not immodest of me to say “Isn’t she gorgeous?!” Don’t you just want to pull out a chair and...
by Hannah | Jun 5, 2017 | Books & Reading, From Hannah, Kids and Parenting, Writing
Elizabeth Gilbert (superstar author of Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear) suggests that we don’t call our books “our babies”. It’s not all that helpful or healthy to be so attached to your work output that you assign it the same...
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