Writing

Author Yona Zeldis McDonough Talks about Lucky Breaks and Following Your Writing Instincts

Yona Zeldis McDonough is the author of seven novels for adults. She is also an award-winning children’s book author with 26 children’s books to her

Recently, I was skimming the front pages of the New York Times book review when I caught this item: Jonathan Safran Foer's new novel,

I've been writing fiction for many years now. Each book poses new stumbling blocks. Inevitably, though, the question that always plagues me

I write emotional family mysteries, the sort of fiction where the characters suffer through freakin' horrible crises:

This past week, I launched my fifth novel, Chance Harbor, provoking a friend to exclaim, “Wow, you're popping out books like Tic Tacs,

Like many writers, I was first introduced to Amy Sue Nathan through her wonderful site, Women's Fiction Writers, which has become one of those

This week is a big one for me. I'm celebrating both the launch of Chance Harbor, my fourth novel with Penguin Random House, and my twentieth wedding

A few years after first discovering Prince Edward Island as a single mom with two young children, I invited my second husband,

For many writers, word count is everything. Me, not so much. At the start of every manuscript, I might write 2,000 words one day, only to decide that