Welcome to Pairings

If our selfies are our way of putting our best selves out there, these staged pictures show us little of who we really are. Can't we tell worlds more about people by looking at the books on their shelves?

To ignore a creative funk is to imperil your creative stamina. Here's how to take a time out to tend to your creative soul.

Like superheroes with super powers, we creatives must use our gift with care — nourish it, tend to it, and practice it.

On This Day: On July 19, 1937, the search for Amelia Earhart's plane ended. "She was in rebellion against a world that had been made, for women, too safe, too confining."

How I wrote a historically accurate, wickedly fictional novel by gathering ten years of Texas research—on wheels, by click, and by page

In the Lone Star State, we celebrate Texas Writers Month in May. For the final part of this series in Pairings, featuring Texas authors all month, we finish with those who are just beginning — and a few who led the way.

Diving deep into the creative evolution of a seasoned art director turned full-time author on the Hill Country Authors Podcast.

With so many Texas authors to applaud and read in May during Texas Writers Month, are you wondering where to start?

Even the dystopian novels I'm reading these days aren't predicting that. Instead, they're showing us our history, and a way forward.

What Did It Take to Become America’s First Female Cabinet Member? The only woman in the room, and the only individual to serve in FDR’s cabinet for his entire term, arrived for her job interview on February 22, 1933 with a very ambitious list.

These authors found inspiration in the hidden histories of accomplished women, whose achievements went untold.

For Women's History Month, we're reading the stories of women once marginalized or totally overlooked in historical fiction

All it took in 1885 to build Houston a city library was a book club, begun by women with a desire for "intellectual culture."

Just like everyone else, we face choices. But the choices authors face aren't exactly like the ones you're imagining.

Some New Year's Resolutions are so grand they're bound to fail. Before you join the Quitter's Day majority (January 10), try this smoother means to success.

When Mark Twain advised to write tight, he surely hadn't been enchanted by the Buzz Words of 2014. Read on for my Fable of Our Times.

How does inspiration strike? For these authors, it's the random events in everyday life that sparked ideas for their novels.

When you’re researching historical fiction, it would be so much easier to rev up the Time Machine. Here's how I did without time travel.

Read my review of DAMAGED by Cam Torrens, which delivers the fast-paced, all too real-life suspense prequel Tyler Zahn fans await.

The panorama feature on the iPhone is Apple’s way of saying, “Go out and have fun with your phone" and use your pano wherever.