Published on March 5, 2020
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![Teacher of American History Gives a Voice to the Native Americans of Roanoke Island – by Harold Titus Teacher of American History Gives a Voice to the Native Americans of Roanoke Island – by Harold Titus](https://writersweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/algonquin_1573604762-e1573604775503.jpg)
Why repeat what other authors of fiction have written about the Roanoke story, almost all of which feature a romantic relationship between an English settler and a local native? Why not, instead, write a story about human conflict within a society that few readers know anything about…
Published on February 27, 2020
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![I Published a Book of Diabetics’ Stories to Educate Against Superstition and Misconception in Nigeria – by Dr Ifediba Zube I Published a Book of Diabetics’ Stories to Educate Against Superstition and Misconception in Nigeria – by Dr Ifediba Zube](https://writersweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/diabetes_black_1582828602-e1582828624239.jpg)
I succeeded in creating awareness on a level that a health rally or a health talk forum would never have!
Published on February 20, 2020
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![A Tough Nun Inspires a Lifelong Love of Books and Writing! – by Cynthia Ripley Miller A Tough Nun Inspires a Lifelong Love of Books and Writing! – by Cynthia Ripley Miller](https://writersweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/nun_1575863167-e1575863288121.png)
In first grade, I found reading difficult. I heard Italian spoken every day, but spoke English. A tough Catholic school nun, Sister Mary Ernest, took me under her wing and I soon began to read…
Published on February 20, 2020
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![A Military Intelligence Career Inspires an International “Private Eye” Novel – by Van Tellfaster A Military Intelligence Career Inspires an International “Private Eye” Novel – by Van Tellfaster](https://writersweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Feature-Image.jpg)
What I didn’t realize is that my time in the military, and civilian career in the government, gave me plenty to think about, not to mention lots of material to craft my novel…
Published on February 13, 2020
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![From Countless Rejections to Numerous Published Children’s Books and Wyoming Poet Laureate! – by Eugene M. Gagliano From Countless Rejections to Numerous Published Children’s Books and Wyoming Poet Laureate! – by Eugene M. Gagliano](https://writersweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/postage_1575864928-e1575864948281.jpg)
Money was tight raising four children on a teacher’s salary so my son Darin helped me collect aluminum cans along the roadside to get money for postage to send out manuscripts…
Published on December 12, 2019
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![When a Doctor Told a Vietnam Vet to “Write Things Down” to Heal from PTSD, Look What Happened by Bill Hammond When a Doctor Told a Vietnam Vet to “Write Things Down” to Heal from PTSD, Look What Happened by Bill Hammond](https://writersweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/vietnam-war-heliocopters-in-combat.jpg)
I wrote a book to share my experiences in Vietnam, and to help myself heal from those experiences.
Published on December 12, 2019
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![After Fellow Writing Students Criticized My Story, Saying “Slaves Can’t Think,” I Knew I Had to Write a Book About The Buffalo Soldiers – by Bob Rogers After Fellow Writing Students Criticized My Story, Saying “Slaves Can’t Think,” I Knew I Had to Write a Book About The Buffalo Soldiers – by Bob Rogers](https://writersweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/51NL3CCoKNL._SX331_BO1204203200_-e1573243183795.jpg)
In Don’s painting, a black soldier leads a saddled cavalry horse. Admiring the flyer, I said to no one in particular, “Someone should write his story.”
Across the room, my wife said, “Why don’t you write it?” Not realizing that she had heard me, my jaw dropped. Huh? Me? The chemistry major, turned soldier, turned IT guy?
Published on December 6, 2019
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![Viewing the World Sideways Leads This Author to Write Some PRETTY WEIRD STUFF! – by Terence Kuch Viewing the World Sideways Leads This Author to Write Some PRETTY WEIRD STUFF! – by Terence Kuch](https://writersweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/weird_1571543851-e1571543998985.jpg)
The Trees of Malice is a collection of sixteen short stories “of horror and the weird,” as the publisher called it, but even though I love zombie movies, my own writing is more weird and strange than straight horror. I look at the world we know not as a steady, solid place…subject to sudden bloody […]
Published on December 6, 2019
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![How This Book Finally Came to Life After 30 Years in the Garage! – Beverly B. Palmer, Ph.D. How This Book Finally Came to Life After 30 Years in the Garage! – Beverly B. Palmer, Ph.D.](https://writersweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/couple-kissing.jpg)
My book began 30 years ago as a research paper on the science of love relationships.
Published on November 29, 2019
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![Old WWII papers with “Weeping Ink” in an Italian Market Spur an Author to Finish her Decades-old Novel-in-Progress – by Pamela Allegretto Old WWII papers with “Weeping Ink” in an Italian Market Spur an Author to Finish her Decades-old Novel-in-Progress – by Pamela Allegretto](https://writersweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/italy_1570892696-e1570892707411.jpg)
The consistent manifestation of hope, scribbled across those abandoned pieces of paper on which the ink now weeps, afforded a valuable glimpse into the Italian sentiment during this horrific period. I deemed all this information to not be coincidence, but rather a sign that I was meant to continue with my novel…