JUNE GILLAM
Novelist, Poet, Gorilla Girl
Feel like writing today?
NBA Playoffs are over! 1. Write about yourself as a good player on an invented or real team sport. 2. True or false? It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game. 3. Falling in love in the fall is ... As always, feel free to write what is on your heart...
A Hippie in Corporate America: Mary Helen Fein, April’s Author of the Month
Multi-talented Mary Helen Fein not only writes, she designs websites, paints and teaches Insight meditation. First let’s focus on Mary Helen the writer and ask about her historical novel, Stitches in Time, An Immigration Story, to be published in 2020 by She Writes...
Wonder Woman of Words: Sharon S. Darrow
To celebrate Women's History Month, we showcase Writing Wonder Woman: Sharon S. Darrow, our Author of the Month. Sharon writes in several genres, publishes many authors’ books, and serves as a leader of Northern California Publishers & Authors. Q: You are so...
Novella women reach out for brass rings
FEBRUARY’S AUTHOR OF THE MONTH—Michelle aka M. L. HAMILTON 2018 was the Year of the Woman, with the #metoo movement, the wave of women elected to offices all across America, and author Michelle Hamilton inspired to make 2019 The Year of Discovery with a series of...
Gifting Readers on the Spiritual Path
In the season of holy holidays, I'm delighted to feature my friend, Nancy Schoellkopf, as December Author of the Month. Q: Ghost Owl: Sacred Path into Darkness is the third book in your Avian series. What inspired you to write it? I’m very proud of Ghost Owl because...
Spicy October–House of Bliss author tells all
In this month surrounded by pumpkin spice this and pumpkin spice that, I'm proud to present spicy author of the month: T. T. Thomas as a treat for readers and writers alike! Q: In your January launch blog you note a love of pirate tales leading to creation of Nora...
Meet author extraordinaire, Michele Drier
We are delighted to feature Michele Drier, author of the Amy Hobbes Newspaper Mysteries, the standalone Ashes of Memories, and The Kandesky Vampire Chronicles, a Paranormal Romance series, as our September Author of the Month. Q: How did you get started writing...
THANKFUL FOR GREAT MYSTERY WRITERS
I find myself grateful for author Linda Townsdin and her series of Spirit Lake Mysteries: Focused on Murder, Close Up on Murder, and Blow Up on Murder. I had a chance to learn some of Linda's trade secrets and am happy to serve them up for mystery lovers today. Q: You...
Keyboards in the Cathedral
Welcome to the Trinity Writing Group, based on the AWA method and following their practices, listed below, to establish a safe environment where everyone is free to explore within their own writing and listen to each other with respect. 1. Everyone’s writing,...
LOVE IS ALWAYS IN SEASON FOR AUTHOR CATHERINE MCGREEVY
Gorilla Girl caught up with popular author Catherine McGreevy this month, when some brides figured out a way around covid-19 stoppers and are hoping to live happily ever after with "the one." Love, as we know, is always in season, particularly inside the covers of...