Research is the foundation on which all historical fiction novels are built, but sometimes the story guides the research and, as I discovered while writing my second novel, The Trade Off , sometimes it’s the other way around. When I first came up with the idea to write a novel about the complex morality of […]
Starz Starz , NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) and The National Association of Latino Independent Producers ( NALIP ) have announced the participants for Season 3 of the Starz Take the Lead Writers’ Intensive. Set to begin on Oct. 14, this year’s program will feature writers Alyssa Katalyna , Eric De La Rosa , Justin Omori […]
Screenshot from the movie Enchanted In the fantasy books I read as a child, the hero was often unassuming, misunderstood, flustered, out of sync with the world. But then she’d learn the truth: she was actually a wizard. Or she could speak to animals. Or she could zoom between centuries, or cover unfathomable distances on […]
Screenshot from the movie Enchanted In the fantasy books I read as a child, the hero was often unassuming, misunderstood, flustered, out of sync with the world. But then she’d learn the truth: she was actually a wizard. Or she could speak to animals. Or she could zoom between centuries, or cover unfathomable distances on […]
