Author Archives: Misty

Karen Musser Nortman’s Time Traveling Trailers

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Misty

Read on for reviews of Karen Musser Nortman’s Time Traveling Trailer series, then see below for an interview with the author. Lynne McBriar is estranged from her husband and growing ever more distant from her 14-year-old daughter, Dinah. Hoping to … Continue reading →

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Almost Missed You: How Character Becomes Plot

Posted on October 8, 2017 by Misty

I subscribe to Writer’s Digest, so as a would-be debut novelist myself, I paid attention to what editor-at-large Jessica Strawser had to say in those pages about her journey in writing, selling, and marketing her debut novel, Almost Missed You, … Continue reading →

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Women Writers Reading: Teresa LaBella reads Jean Grainger

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Misty

The premise of Jean Grainger‘s Shadow of a Century: An Irish Love Story intrigued me. The story of Ireland’s struggle for independence from British rule told by Volunteers who lived through the Rising and their descendants re-living the history 100 … Continue reading →

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Women Writers Reading: Teresa LaBella reads C. Hope Clark

Posted on September 13, 2017 by Misty

Bad things happen to good people in peaceful places, not once, not twice, but six times in August on Edisto Island. Childhood tourist and recent resident Callie Jean Morgan can’t leave her big-city detective life behind when a young woman … Continue reading →

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Women Writers Reading: Angélique Jamail reads Erika Johansen

Posted on August 7, 2017 by Misty

I often tell my students, especially my seniors, that they need to make the world a better place. They smile, they nod, they agree. They contemplate ways in which they might do that. I’m not being flippant when I charge … Continue reading →

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America made this supermodel a feminist

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Misty

Too good not to share: Paulina Porizkova’s op-ed in the New York Times about how America made her a feminist. Nearly as interesting as Porizkova’s sharp assessments of how women and sex are viewed in the different countries in which … Continue reading →

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