This week my guest is historical fiction author Beverly Magid. Before writing her first novel, Beverly was a journalist and an entertainment and celebrity PR executive. She interviewed many luminaries, including John Lennon, Jim Croce, and the Monty Python gang. As publicist, she represented clients in music, tv, and film, ranging from Whoopi Goldberg to […]
Here’s To Turning Up The Thermostat

I’m not a viral type blogger, it takes too much of my time and energy to be writing blogs everyday,but it is ridiculous that I haven’t written anything yet this year. That it’s almost July is scary enough. Does everyone else wake up six months into a year and also suddenly scream, “OMG, it’s almost […]
Read As If Your Writing Depended On It – It Does

It’s hard to believe I haven’t posted since July 2, but life and writing have continued at a fast pace. After a week in Idyllwild’s Fiction Writing this summer, I actually went back to my novel. I should say I re-began my novel and have been at it ever since. Now in the middle of […]
Keeping the writing flame alive

I’ve been thinking about the next book for forever it seems, without getting much on the page. I still have a lot to research it’s true, but something keeps distracting me from consistent time at the computer. I’m sure every writer has had the same problem. Well, maybe not Every One, but those who are […]
History brought to life through storytelling – By Judy Reeves

When a good story with compelling characters also brings history alive for me, I am hooked. Sown in tears is such a book. We may learn the facts about Czarist Russia in the early twentieth century – the pograms, and the devastation of Jewish communities by the Cossacks from history books, but let a writer […]
reviewLEADING A WRITING GROUP

I have been wanting to start a writing group for female military vets, hoping that writing their stories might be beneficial to them. After many weeks of research I finally was put in touch with a group (Volunteers of America) who are setting up a housing and full service project for homeless female vets and […]
GRATITUDE, A HARD ROW TO SOW

It’s so easy to be grateful on the first day, when the doctor says “it’s not your hip, the fractures are not displaced and you don’t need surgery.” Wow, gratitude just oozes out of me. I am introduced to the wonders of a walker, I can get around my apt., a piece of cake. But […]
Why do all those eureka moments only come at three am in the morning?

I had written narratives of the characters, description of the location, background of their history- everything but a story. For months this had gone on, while I fretted that nothing new was occurring to me, that it all seemed so dry and stale. Been there, done that. Until one late night that turned into sleepless […]