Go Ahead, Write Something!

Annabel Monaghan, bestselling author of  Nora Goes Off Script  and  Summer Romance , shares openly about her leap from writing YA – which felt comfortable and safe – to writing romantic comedies for adults and the vulnerability it demands. She explains why awkwardness is her perfect recipe for humor in romance. With insights into her messy creative process and her philosophy of embracing what is f...

Rosie Schaap, author of  The Slow Road North: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country , shares her experience of moving from Brooklyn to a tiny Irish village after losing both her husband and mother, and how Ireland's rugged beauty helped to transform her grief. This heartfelt conversation explores resilience, reinvention, and finding laughter in the shadows of loss. Rosie is the author of Drin...

Rhonda Britten – Emmy Award-winner, 4x Bestselling author, Repeat Oprah guest, Tedx Speaker, and Master Coach – has devoted her life to one thing: teaching people how to master fear. She has created a method for anyone to overcome the insidious fear of “not being good enough” using the “Wheel Technology” she developed to save her own life. What she teaches is what she has lived. Marianne Williamso...

Senior Editor  Terri Bischoff  joined Crooked Lane in 2019. In her twenty-six years working in the book world, she has been a bookseller, bookstore manager, mystery bookstore owner, and finally, an acquiring editor. Previous to CLB, she spent ten years at Midnight Ink as their acquiring editor. Her authors have won many awards, including the Anthony, Agatha, Lefty, and IPPY. She has previously pub...

Clint McCown offers actionable, essential advice gleaned from decades of writing, teaching, publishing, and consulting. Clint McCown is an award-winning American author, poet, journalist, editor, actor, and university professor. He teaches fiction writing and screenwriting in the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University and in the low-residency Master of Fine Arts program for the...

Olesya Salnikova Gilmore was born in Moscow, Russia, raised in the US, and graduated from Pepperdine University with a BA in English / political science, and from Northwestern University School of Law with a JD. She practiced litigation at a large law firm for several years before pursuing her dream of becoming an author. She is happiest writing historical fiction and fantasy inspired by Eastern E...

T.M. Dunn (Patricia Dunn) is the author of three novels, Her Father's Daughter (Crooked Lane, July 2023), Last Stop On The 6 (Bordighera Press, 2021,) and Rebels By Accident (2014). She has served as Senior Director of the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, where she holds an MFA in creative writing. In addition to writing, she coaches aspiring and established writers and teaches cre...

Kate Brandt is a graduate of the MFA Writing program at Sarah Lawrence College.  Her work has appeared in literary anthologies,  Tricycle: The Buddhist Review,   Literary Mama ,  Ginosko,  and  Redivider , among other publications. She’s a teacher trainer in adult literacy in New York City. Hope for the Worst is an autobiographical novel that illuminates the twists and turns we take in seeking wis...

Marcia Bradley earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College after receiving her BA from Antioch University Los Angeles. She was awarded a Bronx Council on the Arts/New York City Department of Cultural Affairs BRIO Award for Fiction and has been published in Two Hawks Quarterly, Hippocampus Magazine, Drunk Monkeys, Electica, the Capital Gazette, and in The Writing Disorder. A natural born wanderer, M...

CHRIS PAVONE is author of five international thrillers, beginning with the THE EXPATS in 2012 and most recently the instant bestseller TWO NIGHTS IN LISBON. His novels have appeared on the bestseller lists of the  New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune,  and IndieNext; have won both the Edgar and Anthony awards, and have been shortlisted for the Strand, Ma...

Brooke Lea Foster is an award-winning author and journalist who has worked as a writer and editor at The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, The Huffington Post/AOL, and the Washingtonian magazine. She’s currently a contributing writer to Psychology Today magazine. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Parents, PARADE,  Scholasti...

Christina Thompson's first book, Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All, is a '...highly unusual blend of personal memoir, travel writing and anthropology . . . the happy result of a scholarly writer looking round at this particular theoretical minefield and deciding to make it her home.' —  Sunday Times (London) It received the following awards:  A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ C...

Barbara Josselsohn is the author of five novels: The Cranberry Inn (Bookouture, 2022), The Lily Garden (Bookouture, 2021), The Bluebell Girls (Bookouture, 2020), The Lilac House (Bookouture, 2020) and The Last Dreamer (Lake Union, 2015). Her articles and essays appear in a range of publications, including New York Magazine, Parents Magazine, Westchester Magazine, WorkingMother.com, and the New Yor...

Naomi Novik is an acclaimed American author of speculative fiction. She is known for the Temeraire series (2006–2016), an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars involving dragons, and her Scholomance fantasy series (2020–2022). Her standalone fantasy novels Uprooted (2015) and Spinning Silver (2018) were inspired by Polish folklore and the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale respectively. Novik has won m...

Discover how Tessa kept the faith through years of not selling and how she finally achieved her goals of publication and quit her job to write full time.