Elisabeth Eaves

Aug 30, 2024 | psychologytoday.com | Elisabeth Eaves

By Elisabeth EavesNovelists are always trying to get into the minds of our characters. Sometimes, we draw from personal experience, like method actors. Often, though, we have to inhabit a state of mind we've never experienced. This requires imagination, of course, but when writing about a character with a developmental disorder, we also have other tools at our disposal. Most of these disorders have been studied for decades and are described in libraries' worth of scientific reports.

Aug 29, 2024 | qoshe.com | Elisabeth Eaves

Aa Aa Aa - A + By Elisabeth EavesNovelists are always trying to get into the minds of our characters. Sometimes, we draw from personal experience, like method actors. Often, though, we have to inhabit a state of mind we've never experienced. This requires imagination, of course, but when writing about a character with a developmental disorder, we also have other tools at our disposal.

Aug 22, 2024 | crimereads.com | Elisabeth Eaves

Like it or not, we all have relationships with certain CEOs. A whim at the top of a social media company, drug developer, or AI enterprise can reverberate across the lives of millions of people. The richest and most colorful of these corporate leaders achieve celebrity status, stoking interest in their personal affairs—Jeff Bezos’ girlfriend’s dresses, Elon Musk’s 12 or so children—but they’re different from regular celebrities, who don’t actually have much impact on our day-to-day behavior.

Aug 10, 2024 | writersdigest.com | Elisabeth Eaves

A great setting can make the difference between a forgettable book and a memorable one, but setting isn't just a backdrop to everything else. For the writer, it can be an effective tool for developing indelible characters and a unique plot. And when plot and character are rooted in a setting, the story becomes an inseparable whole that imprints itself on the reader's brain. (I Lived in Castles to Bring My New Novel to Life.)Consider a tale that goes like this: A girl grows up alone in the woods.

Jun 14, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Caroline Woods |Stella Sands |Elisabeth Eaves |Chris W Whitaker

Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, with Aaron Philip Clark. Amistad, $27.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-331290-6In rapper 50 Cent’s dynamic fiction debut (after the memoir Hustle Smarter, Hustle Harder), Vietnam-vet-turned-thief Desmond Bell breaks into the oldest bank in Texas and steals $2 million in Spanish gold and a slave manifest implicating the Duchamps, one of the Lone Star State’s wealthiest families, as beneficiaries of the transatlantic slave trade.