Alison Stine is a poet by training, an essayist and reporter for The New York Times and other national publications, and her latest novel Trashlands comes out next week on October 26. Set in a dystopian future where discarded plastic is…
After a career as an executive at several global companies, Michael Rose began writing novels. Publishing fiction has been an ambition since childhood, but as he puts it “was something from the top tier of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and…
In December of last year, I attended the Massachusetts Conference for Women on behalf of my day job. There were dozens of wonderful speakers that gave me a lot to think about when it comes to leadership and career planning….
Six years ago, I was finishing a first draft of my still-in-progress novel and got stuck at the final scene. My heroine needed to thwart an elaborate ATM scam run by her charismatic captors. How exactly had they pulled off…
Think of your favorite movie. Perhaps it is hard for you to narrow down the list. But chances are when you try to think of the best film you’ve ever seen in your life, a few things happen. You remember…
Most writers will tell you that the thinnest book on their shelf also contains some of the best wisdom (and possibly the most dogeared pages). The Elements of Style by William Strunk Junior and E.B. White is a go-to for…