Writing Archives - Ellen Morris Prewitt

A Delightfully Rambunctious Novel

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 20, 2026. Posted in Featured, When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women. 2 Comments on A Delightfully Rambunctious Novel

I’m so pleased with this review, y’all, I have to share it–thank you to Chapter 16 and reviewer Bradley Sides for the extremely kind and enthusiastic review of WHEN WE WERE MURDEROUS TIME-TRAVELING WOMEN. Calling it a “rambunctious novel” packed with “action, humor, and heart,” he found it...

The Magic of the Book Launch

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 6, 2026. Posted in Featured, General, When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women. 10 Comments on The Magic of the Book Launch

It wasn’t an accident, the magic of the book launch. I thought long and hard about what would feel like a success to me. After I did a guest reading at a coffeehouse in December in Ocean Springs, I knew I wanted it at a coffeehouse. Also, I wanted other authors joining me—at that reading, we had about eight writers reading. The...

The Writing Table

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 24, 2026. Posted in Featured, General, Writing. 6 Comments on The Writing Table

It didn’t start out well. I was participating in the Makers Space at the Hancock County arts festival, a tent where artists demonstrated their crafts. I was already pushing a rock uphill, competing for attention with potters and wood turners and face painters. My writing offering was unfinished sentences on index cards. “My teacher...

The Book

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 20, 2026. Posted in Featured, General, When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women. 13 Comments on The Book

Mile markers exist in the book publishing business. Marketing manuals contain these lists so authors won’t miss them. You’ll also see them in the wild. I’ve sold my book! My cover reveal! The books have arrived–watch me open the box! There’s a reason for these milestones. They make chronological and narrative...

The Typewriter

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 10, 2026. Posted in Featured, General, Writing. 4 Comments on The Typewriter

My mechanical skill level is so low, I consider opening an ironing board a mechanical act. But this typewriter is important to me. My Uncle Hebron gave it so me. In fact, he told me he was leaving it to me and then he did. It’s his 1940s Royal typewriter. Every note I’ve ever gotten from Hebron during my entire life was typed on...

The Rules I Broke

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on March 8, 2026. Posted in Featured, When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women, Writing. 14 Comments on The Rules I Broke

I’m a rule follower. Maybe a better characterization is that I believe experts when they tell me there’s “a way” to do a thing. When I was beginning my writing career, the “way” was to get short stories published in fine literary journals. At the same time, you worked on a novel. The theory was an agent would...

There are NO DRAGONS in This Book

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 21, 2026. Posted in Featured, General, Writing. 6 Comments on There are NO DRAGONS in This Book

For story time at our house, the six-year-old grandson gets to pick out the books. He has a limit of three books per night. We have two shelves of books, but he has a cache of favorites he returns to time and again. I consider this an “in the wild customer satisfaction” survey. A consistent winner in this survey is There Are NO...

Vonnegut

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 18, 2026. Posted in Featured, General, When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women, Writing. 8 Comments on Vonnegut

When I was in high school, I favored a small library located in a strip center. The library shelves began as soon as you walked in the door. From my weird spatial perspective, the library arranged the books backwards—the cataloguing began at the front desk, placing the fiction authors whose names were at the end of the alphabet closest to the...

Write into the Marrow

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 15, 2026. Posted in Featured, General, Writing. 4 Comments on Write into the Marrow

I want you to know: if you want to write your memoir, you can do it. Write it anyway you want. Tell the parts of your story that you can’t let go of and leave the rest out. Do it your way, the way that satisfies your soul. Please don’t worry about “memoir-writing” advice. Except this: write into the bone then crack...

Catching Souls

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on January 17, 2026. Posted in Featured, General, Writing. 2 Comments on Catching Souls

I have fallen in love with… Can we get the most important thing out of the way first? Catching Souls for Beelzebub is the only book I’ve ever read written by a male author that actually nails women’s attire. Most male authors, they’re like, she was stunning in her navy skirt and white shirt. Not here. Sure, the perfect attire in...