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 Excerpt from A Quilting of Scars by Lucy E.M. Black
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By Lucy Black
In Blog, Reviews & Press
Posted July 15, 2025

Excerpt from A Quilting of Scars by Lucy E.M. Black

Larkin was fifty-one now, almost the same age as his father was when he’d died a quarter century before. And in the last while Larkin had been thinking about his own mortality. About how the past [...]

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 Quilting of Scars – Coming Soon
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By Lucy Black
In Blog, Reviews & Press
Posted June 9, 2025

Quilting of Scars – Coming Soon

Quilting of Scars to be released by Now or Never Publishing October 2025.

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 What I’m Writing Now…
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By Lucy Black
In Blog
Posted June 9, 2025

What I’m Writing Now…

Did you know that many women served as soldiers and spies during the American Civil War?

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 The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
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By Lucy Black
In Blog
Posted August 27, 2024

The Shit No One Tells You About Writing

When my first short story collection came out in 2017, there were accolades, to be sure. However, one friend responded with, “It was so depressing, it made me want to slit my wrists. Like [...]

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 Descriptive Writing by Lucy E.M. Black
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By Lucy Black
In Blog
Posted June 6, 2024

Descriptive Writing by Lucy E.M. Black

Descriptive writing has a unique ability to cast a spell on the reader, to draw them in so they can see and think and feel what your narrator and/or characters are communicating. It should [...]

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 The Writing Room
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By Lucy Black
In Blog
Posted January 24, 2024

The Writing Room

2024 is here, and many of us will have committed to some fresh starts and new year’s resolutions. Establishing new year’s resolutions is a tradition found around the world. People generally [...]

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 On Writing Memoir
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By Lucy Black
In Blog
Posted May 6, 2022

On Writing Memoir

Most of us want to know that we matter and that our lives matter. Leaving a written memoir is a legacy of sorts, a way of documenting what small impact we hope we have had in the lives of [...]

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 Writing Resources
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By Lucy Black
In Blog
Posted April 28, 2022

Writing Resources

This is by no means an exhaustive list, but I wanted to share some of the writing resources that I have found helpful.

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 On Becoming a Published Author
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By Lucy Black
In Blog
Posted April 25, 2022

On Becoming a Published Author

Everyone has a story to tell. Not every story needs to be published. But some do. Oftentimes people want to record family stories and memoir pieces for their families. They may not [...]

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 On Preparing a Manuscript for Publication
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By Lucy Black
In Blog
Posted April 25, 2022

On Preparing a Manuscript for Publication

There are many paths to publication and everyone has their own unique story about how they got there. This is a simple sharing of my own experiences in case it is helpful to others. First [...]

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