The inspiration behind the novel Captain Bonny Morgan: The Cassandra Prophesy is a result of my interest in three things: mythology, science fiction, and the Golden Age of Piracy in the Caribbean at the turn of the eighteenth-century. While as a Ph.D. and an academic I have written much in the way of literary analysis…
Ann Putnam is here with us today to give us the story behind her memoir, Full Moon at Noontide: A Daughter’s Last Goodbye (Southern Methodist University Press). The writing of the book came from a series of little notebooks of lines, phrases, sometimes single words I carried with me like a talisman through the months…
After more than a ten-year saga, I published my debut novel EVERY BOAT TURNS SOUTH. It’s the story of Matt Younger, a 30-year-old delivery boat captain who returns to Amelia Island, Florida to make a confession to his dying father about his role in the death of the favorite son. In order to make that…
It really began with a fire that threatened to consume everything. More precisely it was a firing. And at its center: my wallet. Three days after my honeymoon, I was terminated. This development trailed the second dot-com bust and was years before the Sweet-Bejezus-Will-It-Ever-End-Recession of 2007. I suddenly had a lot of time on my…
Name: Brandie Knight Name of Book: Hollywood Under the Covers Where Did you as an author get your inspiration? Ever since I was a teenager and inspired by Jackie Collins’ books, I wanted to become a Hollywood novelist. With the old saying, “You should write about what you know,” I ventured into the entertainment industry.…
We often wonder how authors come up with their stories and if any part of themselves is in the story that we are captivated by, so we asked author Sherry Shumard, author of The Heartbroken Promises Series about her inspiration for her book and where she came up with the idea. Enjoy! My Inspiration for…
The Story Behind the Book 