Lou Aronica

I’m a guy and I write love stories. As it turns out, not all that many other guys do this. Some romance writers with female names are...

In one way or another, I’d been planning to be a writer from the time I was a teenager. When I graduated college, though, I needed a job...

Writing fiction is a form of wish fulfillment. Writing is such an immersive process that one of the byproducts is that the writer is...

My novel The Journey Home has multiple inspirations. The strongest of these was the romance between my mother and father that lasted more...

Writing fiction isn’t like competing in the Olympics in terribly many ways. This is, for the most part, a good thing, as my training...

The very first book I ever edited – David Brin’s Startide Rising – won both the Nebula and Hugo Awards. My batting average has plummeted...

Early in my publishing career, I worked with a vaunted science fiction writer, one of the true masters of the field. His books...

Many years ago, I read an article that John Irving wrote for the New York Times Book Review. In it, he defended the novelist’s use of...

I’ve always been suspicious of films that purported to be “based on a true story.” That seems like a huge cheat to me. You get the...

This is another song that came from my "situation drama" approach of considering a circumstance and then imagining how it would play out....