By Jenny Milchman And do I have some books for you! Or for a mother in your life, or someone you think of as a mother, or someone who has or once had a mother—and I could go on. Point being that every one of us has been touched in some way by the concept of motherhood, whether in real life or...
You Need a You Space By Jenny Milchman They say the happiest kind of actor is a working actor, and that’s true of writers too. Lately I’ve begun to think that it may be true of all people, period. Sigmund Freud, albeit he’s be cancelled for a lot of things circa today, got it right when he said...
By Jenny Milchman Five Triumphant Thrillers As a five-foot, zero-inch woman, I can't exactly kill a bad guy with my bare hands like Reacher. So I right wrongs in my books, and love authors who do as well. Here's five triumphant thrillers I'd highly recommend. The School for Good Mothers by...
by Jenny Milchman My heroes don’t fly or wear tight neoprene suits or fight epic battles. They’re not fictional; they’re real. (Well, okay, Reacher—he’s fictional, and fights, and would probably look great in a neoprene suit). But for the most part, my heroes are literary ones. Authors. I’ve been...
By Jenny Milchman Let’s face it, writing is never exactly easy. Even on the best days, when the words seem to appear on the screen by magic, to move from our brain to our electrified fingers like lightning bolts, we wind up flattened and enervated by EOD, as if we really did just experience 10,000...
by Jenny Milchman As a writer, I find it particularly brave when a book doesn't end on a note of justice, when things don't turn out hunky-dory in the end. (Anyone else still worried about that baby in Gone Girl, now a tween and up to who-knows-what?) After all, this is more realistic,...
Writing is a perilous business. At its best, the writer journeys through a portal deep into a fictional realm, and lives a multi-verse away from their nearest and dearest, causing all sorts of glitches like burnt dinners, or no dinners at all. At its worst, said fictional world does not appear on the page, causing said writer to turn into a roaring, demonic creature seldom seen outside of a William Peter Blatty novel.
By Jenny Milchman WHEN NO ONE IS WATCHING by Alyssa Cole Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos sprouting like weeds, FOR SALE signs popping up overnight, and the neighbors she's known all her life disappearing. Sydney channels...
By Jenny Milchman The holidays are nigh and perhaps you haven’t tied the final bow—or even gotten around to shopping for all the someones on your list yet. Don’t worry, I’ve got you squared away. I roamed over hill and dale, traveled far and wide, to find just the right surprise purchase for even...
By Jenny Milchman With Halloween coming to a close, I can't help wanting to enjoy the scary season for just a little longer. If you're not ready to lean into the full-blown holiday season quite yet, here's the remedy: six scary books and films to keep your fall on the spooky side! The Monster The...
