Lori Duff

Nov 11, 2024 | writersdigest.com | Lori Duff

The drama of a courtroom has always been a source of inspiration for writers. Many classic novels involve lawyers and their profession. From Charles Dickens’ Bleak House to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird to the bestselling oeuvre of John Grisham, you can’t throw a rock in a bookstore[1] without hitting something touching on the law. (5 Tips for Writing Action and Fight Scenes.)This is no coincidence. Courtrooms are where families are put together or torn apart. Where fortunes are won and lost.

Oct 22, 2024 | shepherd.com | Lori Duff |Heather Fawcett |Lily Brooks-Dalton |Holly Smale

I fell in love with the protagonist, Emily Wilde, right away. She’s smart and focused, and utterly unaware of how she presents to the world or how to react to it. She is a dryadologist, that is, she studies Faeries and other Folk which, in the world of the book, are real. Despite the huge dose of magic that exists in the book, it doesn’t read like fantasy. Written in diary form, my heart ached witnessing Emily’s personal and professional struggles to understand what’s going on around her.