by Maggie Preston | Jun 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
When I was a teen and writing torrid love stories filled with drama and angst, I would hide the manuscript under my bed so my mom (supposedly) would not find it. I kept up the tradition for years as long as I was writing longhand as I would typically write right...
by Maggie Preston | May 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
I struggle with the green-eyed monster when it comes to other writers. I see their success, their sales, their rave reviews and there’s a part of me that twinges. The salt in the wound sometimes is that they are very dear friends and sometimes they are just...
by Maggie Preston | May 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
I read fiction for entertainment. While I have forgotten much of what happened in my life before the age of ten, what I do remember is strangely tied to books. In first grade, we would sit around a tilted table with Dick and Jane and these massive headphones listening...
by Maggie Preston | Apr 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
I have a regular joke with my friends that if the police or FBI suddenly take me away in the middle of the night, tell them I’m a writer and that anything in my search history is for research. When you’re a writer, everything becomes fodder for a book....
by Maggie Preston | Apr 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
As a writer, I value the importance of the right words. Language is a nuanced beast and context can be just as important as word choice. And let’s not get started about punctuation. Let’s eat Grandma! vs Let’s eat, Grandma! But I digress…...
by Maggie Preston | Mar 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
The MC in my new book Unspoken Rules is a troubled young woman. Her mind does not work in a mainstream fashion. I needed music that reflected a soothing chaos. Seems a little contradictory, doesn’t it. I found two artists that fill the bill – Nils Hahn and...
