I met up with Santa Claus in the fiction section of R J Julia Booksellers in Madison, Connecticut. This was…
Author: Lisa Braxton
I was around 8 years old when I first learned of the financial realities of writing. I was a voracious…
Drum roll please!! It’s launch week for Debutante Amy Klein. Amy steps out onto the ballroom floor with The Trying…
I’m often asked what inspired my debut novel, The Talking Drum. I’ve drawn inspiration from a multitude of experiences and…
One of the more appetizing parts of my research for The Talking Drum involved trying dishes I’d never heard of…
Ever since you were a child you knew you wanted to write a novel. But as the years went by,…
My perfect day wouldn’t be spent at my home. In fact, it wouldn’t be spent in my town, my state…
I have a love-hate relationship with scenes that establish setting of the story. I find these scenes the hardest to…
In The Talking Drum, one of my main characters, Omar Bassari, reminisces about the day in 1965 when his father,…
I never realized that my personality influenced my writing until I had an agent take a look at an early…