by Amanda Marsico After giving myself some time to let the information overload of the 2013 James River Writers Conference settle, I’m finally got around to sharing the great tips from the “Suspense Across the Genres” session, with speakers Philippa Ballantine, Christopher McDougall, Kevin O’Malley, and Howard Owen, moderated by Julie Geen. Here are…
by Gabbi Hall The Penmen Review asked writers what the best advice they have been given was. Here is what three writers had to say: Raegan Payne is an award winning, published and regularly produced playwright. She is also a nationally recognized blogger. This is a marathon, not a sprint. Write one…
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Robert Hilliard is the author of “A Season on the Allegheny“, a non-fiction book about Pennsylvania’s Allegheny National Forest. For him, one of the greatest challenges to completing his book, which has been called “a well-researched, well-written account” by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, was finding time to sit down and write. To…