Meet the Author Spotlight: Chan Poling
By Alise Secor, 2019 Red Sofa Intern Chan Poling is a first-time author but no stranger to pen and paper. As the frontman and one…
Meet the Author Spotlight – M.G. Velasco
By Alise Secor, 2019 Red Sofa Intern M.G. Velasco identifies as a recovering Magic: The Gathering addict. His first novel, Cardslinger, is an adolescent 19th…
Meet the Author Spotlight: Allie Therin
By Alise Secor, 2019 Red Sofa Intern Allie Therin is a sci-fi/fantasy/romance author, an enthusiastic reader of the same genres, the mother of a…
NaNoWriMo Day #30 – Thinking of Myself as a Writer
By Brandon Marie Miller I’d never seen myself as a writer. I’d thought of myself as a reader, but not a writer. I was a nerdy…
NaNoWriMo Day #29 – I write because I need to
By Jasmine Gower My hometown was never big enough for a library. Well, it was never big enough for a public library. When my parents built…
NaNoWriMo Day #28 – How I became a storyteller
By Kate Watson I used to think that storytelling found me. One of my earliest memories is of my mom reading The Wonderful Wizard of Oz…
NaNoWriMo Day #27 – I write because I can’t imagine not writing
By Nicki Jacobsmeyer Why do I write? Besides a legitimate reason to explain the voices in my head? All joking aside, the characters and stories in…
NaNoWriMo Day #26 – Writing can be messy, but it helps make sense of the world around us
By Kat Vecchio I write about women’s lives. More specifically, women who lived outside the strictly drawn lines of decorum in the late nineteenth and early…
NaNoWriMo Day #25 – Writing helped me embrace my messiness
By Adrienne Proctor To me, writing has meant embracing my messiness. I’m not talking metaphorical mess. That would be a whole other post. No, I mean my…
NaNoWriMo Day #24 – I write because I love storytelling
By Christopher Thornton How one finds their way to the practice of any art or craft is often a bit of a mystery, but my path may…
