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Writing About Timely-Yet-Timeless Issues: How to Keep it Relevant While Keeping it Real
USA Today and Amazon bestselling author of He Gets That From Me, That’s Not a Thing, and Trouble the Water. Her latest novel, Counting Backwards, is set ...
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Chick Lit Central: Tips for Writing Morally Ambiguous Characters
Jacqueline Friedland's fabulous writing tips...plus a book giveaway We are so excited to have Jacqueline Friedland back at CLC today! Melissa loved her latest novel, He Gets ...
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Scary Mommy: 11 Ways Gestational Surrogacy Will Surprise You
he topic of gestational surrogacy made headlines this year when surrogacy contracts arrangements finally became legal in New York. There have also been several recent articles regarding a woman ...
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Scary Mommy: Don't Mock Joe Biden (Or Anyone Else) For Having A Stutter
n recent weeks, stuttering has received increased media attention because of former Vice President Joe Biden’s history of stuttering. His political foes have pounced on this perceived ...
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Women Writers, Women's Books: Plague Authors are Crushing It
I recently heard someone refer to writers who have released books during the Covid era as “plague authors.” As a member of that illustrious group myself, I found that ...
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The Writing Disorder: Just Allowance
I could not decide whether it was malice or conceit that inspired Constance to enter through the front foyer again that day. It was as though she thought she ...
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SparkPress: Releasing a Novel in the Corona Era
Releasing your new novel into the world in the middle of the Corona pandemic is, well, an experience. The project that you’ve spent years of your life ...
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Women Writers, Women's Books: Genre Hopping
My first novel, Trouble the Water, is historical fiction, and my second, That’s Not a Thing, is contemporary. People keep asking me how this can be, how ...
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Women Writers, Women's Books: Asking for Trouble
Perhaps because I have been reared as part of a generation of independent women, perhaps because I have been taught that I am a capable individual, perhaps because I ...
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Women Writers, Women's Books: Author Interview of Abigail Milton
We asked Jacqueline Friedland if she would be willing to interview Abigal Milton, the main character of her novel TROUBLE THE WATER. Set against the vivid backdrop of Charleston ...
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Reading The Past: Immersive Research for Historical Fiction Writing
Today I'm welcoming Jacqueline Friedland, author of Trouble the Water (SparkPress, May), who's contributed an essay about researching the historical atmosphere of the pre-Civil War South.
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He Said Books or Me Guest Post: Finding the Light
I've been going round and round in my head about how to write this post and what to say. I thought about including funny pictures, best memories, or ...
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SparkPress: Peeling the Character Onion
The one who comes across as mean, brash, rude, or obnoxious, but actually, she isn’t. You just have to peel back the onion layers to get to ...
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Bookworm on a Budget: Trouble the Water Author Q & A
I am a voracious reader, and there are so many books that have made permanent impressions on me throughout my life. There are too many to name. At the ...
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Guest Post: Strong Women and Memorable Books
Happy Beltane, everyone! I’m so excited to have Jacqueline Friedland as my guest here today. As her post below makes clear, she’s a soul-sister of mine in ...
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Writer's Corner: The Importance of Complex Characters
A couple of years ago, there was a debate in the literary world about “likeable” characters. The question, essentially, boiled down to this: must a character be unpleasant, whether ...
Jacqueline Friedland
Author of Counting Backwards, He Gets That From Me, That’s Not a Thing, The Stockwell Letters, and Trouble the Water
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Parade Magazine– Books to Kick Back with over Memorial Day Weekend
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Moms Don’t Have Time To Read Books Podcast- Interview with Jacqueline Friedland
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A Mighty Blaze- Baking with Rach- Interview with Jacqueline Friedland
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Good Morning America–Transport Yourself to Another Time with These Books
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Women.com– Most Anticipated Books of Fall
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With a Book in Our Hands– Review of He Gets That From Me
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