by Mary Anna Evans Images of the WWII home front have entered the popular imagination. In our minds’ eyes, ordinary citizens, most of them women, rationed their food, led scrap metal drives, and worked in factories like the biceps-flexing Rosie-the-Riveter in her red-and-white polka dot kerchief. Meanwhile, people they loved, mostly men, fought in the […]

By Adam Mitzner “What do you want out of your writing career?” These were among the first words my agent asked me. Naturally, I told him that I wanted to be rich and famous, a perennial best-seller, my books translated into as many languages as are spoken, with A-list movie stars fighting to star in […]

Is Truth Stranger Than Fiction? by David Handler Whenever I speak about my Stewart Hoag series to library groups, mystery convention attendees and other gatherings of avid readers they tend to stare at me in wide-eyed amazement, because they find Hoagy’s history so totally bizarre. Actually, my entire career has been totally bizarre. I’ve written […]

Long before attempting fiction, I fell in love with the universal resonance of the personal story. I wrote articles and essays and, like most writers, I also had a day job. For ten years, I was a U.S. correspondent for two international education journals. But whether writing a commissioned article on international education or an […]