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Meagan Lucas came to writing just four years ago through her postpartum depression and the ready outlet of personal blogging. But when people actually…
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Katey Schultz went to college to study philosophy and become a memoirist. Then one day, out of nowhere, one short sentence popped into her mind.Jet was…
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Author Megan Shepherd and her family live on an old farm on six acres in the town of Etowah, near her native Brevard. They keep bees. Chickens roam the…
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It’s a Tuesday night at the Battery Park Book Exchange, and three authors have shown up to this meeting of the Western North Carolina Mysterians.It’s a…
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Write about what you know about. It’s a time-tested path countless writers have traveled to bestselling books and films. So when Rachael Sparks took her…
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Browse around the Cottage Craftsman, a gift shop in the center of Bryson City, and you’ll see candle holders, wall hangings, baskets, pottery, jewelry, a…
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Like many novelists, Jacqui Castle stumbled into fiction through a side door. She mixed a background in psychology, some surrounding social and political…
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Robert Beatty Could Have Retired in His 30s. Then He Pursued His Second Goal and Became a BestsellerRobert Beatty was still in his 30s when he sold his tech company for millions of dollars and moved with his wife and three daughters from Michigan to 32…
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Holly Kays studied creative fiction in college and saw herself on a path to becoming a novelist. “Everybody who likes to write is writing a book at some…
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In the 1970s and ‘80s, Jon Michael Riley made a lot of money as a corporate and commercial photographer, and his work anchored advertisements in major…