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Every House Has a Story

Every house has a story. And, if you had asked my friends and family members the day my husband and I went to look at a historic house on the coast of North Carolina’s third oldest town, they would have said ours had a cautionary tale. They weren’t totally wrong.…

Kristy Woodson HarveyJuly 1, 2024

Fiction Miscellany

Naming Names and Rewriting History: Why One Author Used Her Family’s Real Names in Her Novel

I grew up in a family of secrets that I wasn’t supposed to reveal. Of course, because they made such great stories, I did anyway, but I did it in fiction, writing about my parents, my sister, always changing their names, their appearances. “It’s no one’s business what goes on…

Caroline LeavittSeptember 15, 2023

Miscellany Potpourri - Featured

Does an Author Need More Than Approval of Her Own Conscience?

EDITOR’S NOTE: What follows is an article written by author Anne Dimock, whose debut novel Against the Grain tells a story about desegregation in the 1960s through six perspectives: two of them Black and four of them white. In the article, she explores the question: Is it ok for a white author…

Anne DimockNovember 2, 2022

Author Spotlight Miscellany

The Making of a Southern Gothic Writer

Editors’ note: Alexandrea Weis is the author of dozens of novels that span the genres of mystery, suspense, thrillers, horror, crime fiction and romance, including the St. Benedict and Magnus Blackwell series. Her forthcoming YA thriller, Have You Seen Me? (Vesuvian Books, August 3, 2021) was recently named one of…

Alexandrea WeisJune 2, 2021

Miscellany - Featured

Does an Author Need More Than Approval of Her Own Conscience?

EDITOR’S NOTE: What follows is an article written by author Anne Dimock, whose debut novel Against the Grain tells a story about desegregation in the 1960s through six perspectives: two of them Black and four of them white. In the article, she explores the question: Is it ok for a white author…

Anne DimockNovember 2, 2022

Every House Has a Story

Naming Names and Rewriting History: Why One Author Used Her Family’s Real Names in Her Novel

Does an Author Need More Than Approval of Her Own Conscience?

The Making of a Southern Gothic Writer

Does an Author Need More Than Approval of Her Own Conscience?

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