By Alaina Alexander I remember reciting stories into a tape recorder and playing them back for the neighborhood kids. Sometimes my stories wouldn’t go over well or the tape would run out, and in either case, I found myself high-tailing it home with a gang of kids close on my tail. They debated whether or … Read more
By Magdalena Ball It couldn’t have happened at a worse moment. My car had just been hit by a truck and I was standing amidst the wreckage of glass and metal when my post lady pulled up. After ascertaining that I wasn’t hurt, she handed me a package: the obviously thick SASE that went along … Read more
By Laura Lee Carter Becoming a writer is made so much more interesting by menopause. Since I’m going through “the change”and changing everything else in my life (hair colors, houses, husbands, etc.), I decided to change careers too. Ask my new and unbelievably patient husband, Mike, who listens regularly to my sobbing fits in the … Read more
By Mark Terry A long, long time ago (in what occasionally does seem a galaxy far, far away), I decided I wanted to be a writer. This was toward the end of my college career, between, I believe, my junior and senior years. I was majoring in microbiology and public health and not doing a … Read more
By Karyn Langhorne “Karyn?” She sounded young. Really young. I took a deep breath, and answered, hoping I didn’t sound old. Really old. “I’m Selina . . . and I’m going to be your editor on this project. First let me tell how much I loved your book.’ She might be young, but she was … Read more
