Editor’s note: Sadly, Iconic acclaimed author, poet, columnist and massage therapist Yvonne Zipter died Feb. 10 due to complications from ovarian cancer. She was 71. Her last novel, Infraction, was published
As part of my training as a psychologist, I completed pre- and postdoctoral internships. One pre-doc internship was at a student health center at the University of Southern California. The
My one true desire has never wavered: to become a published author—and briefly an archeologist, because I thought dinosaurs were so cool. I never doubted I would be a published
As book bans rise and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric grows louder, independent queer presses are doing the vital work of keeping our stories alive. While big publishers can pivot away from LGBTQ+ titles when times get tough, queer presses like Rattling Good Yarns Press — and the many others that share our mission — can’t and won’t. We are the community we publish. This season, supporting LGBTQ+ books means more than giving a gift — it means standing up for visibility, creativity, and history itself.
How a Closet and a Camera Made Me a Better Writer When I let people know I’m a retired military officer, the most common response I get is “Thank you
Let me be clear from the outset, I am probably the last person who should give advice to an aspiring author on how to get published. I am at the
Among the folks I thanked in the acknowledgments page of Boy Wander – A Coming of Age Memoir (Rattling Good Yarns Press, 2023) were the writing groups I was a
Whenever someone discovers that I published a collection of short stories, their first question is the obvious, logical one: “What are they about?” Playing the role of Serious Author, my
You get an idea; you write. Sounds simple. However, for many who have thought they could write a book, the task of beginning suddenly becomes enormous. Even though I taught writing for years in public school, I honestly never thought I’d be able to write an entire novel, much less as many as I’ve published over the years. So, here I offer an easy guide. Or not so easy, as the case may be, but it might be helpful…
I consider myself a survivor thanks to my writing. I wouldn’t have survived certain situations and experiences in my life if I hadn’t had an impulse to write. You see,
I’ve loved traveling for as long as I can remember, but rarely had the means to do it. My first trip to Europe overlapped the last week of my last
Like a lot of writers, I would often think, while dashing off a poem or wrangling with some plot twist in a novel, “If it pleases me, it will please
When I think about being a gay author and why I feel it’s essential to hear gay stories, my mind goes back to the beginning of seventh grade. Before, I
My first book was The Radical Act of Community Storytelling, a memoir/how-to/advocacy for the power of storytelling. I wrote it because I had been successfully producing an event, Odyssey Storytelling,
Every time I visit a museum, no matter how keenly focused I am on what I’ve gone to see, I’m always ambushed by some unexpected discovery. This was the
