The Write Way Café w elcomes J. Arlene Culiner, who discusses her very interesting road to publication and offers advice: Never. Ever. Throw away any writing. Where did the idea for your story come from? Years ago, I worked for Radio France. Because I’m...
by J. Arlene | Jan 14, 2020 Release date: January 15, 2020 In my romantic suspense, The Turkish Affair, the setting is Karakuyu, an archaeological site in a dangerous part of Turkey. My heroine, Anne, is a former American journalist who, after a scandalous...
FEARLESS FRIDAY It's always fun to have J. Arlene Culiner on Discover... Her Fearless Friday post is no exception. So grab a cup of whatever, sit back, and enjoy the read! I live in an area of France where ancient sunken paths lead between villages or...
Felicity's Power by J. Arlene Culiner “You’re right, of course. This dream is going to blow sky high, just the way Owen’s did a hundred and fifty years ago.” A woman’s voice. Rich, throaty. Lazy. Marek Sumner looked up from the lecture notes he’d been...
1) My First Valentine Frankie Z. sent me passionate love notes. I answered all of Frankie Z’s passionate love notes with my own. They weren’t complicated missives, just tiny pieces of paper with the words, I love you, written in block letters. Why he...
FEARLESS FRIDAY (from Brenda Whiteside's Blog) Having Friday the 13th as a birth date, got me off on the right foot. Since then, I’ve spent my life getting into (and out of) tricky situations. On this day, I was in Romania, and the snow was falling heavily,...
By Interviews With Writers Author Bio: Born in New York, raised in Toronto, J. Arlene Culiner set out to have a life of adventure and discovery, not one of security and comfort. She has since crossed much of Europe on foot, traveled, by bus, train, car,...
Don’t we all have a memory tucked away of someone we once loved, someone we just might have stayed with had the circumstances been right? And what would happen if we came face-to-face with that person today? Would the magic still be there? Would our hands...
All About Terrible Guests: The Summer Holiday of Lettuce and Irk No, of course those aren’t their real names but I’ll never forget the summer they came to stay. And stay. And, stay on. And on. I had only met them once, at a friend’s house in San Francisco....
Tuesday, December 13, 2016 How would you feel if… With: J. Arlene Culiner Giveaway Alert! How would it feel if you were being watched, but didn’t know who was watching? If you knew you were being followed, but couldn’t see who was following? If you received...
1) Back in the 1800s, pioneer towns really did stink. Rubbish was left out to rot along with the corpses of animals and offal from the butcher shops. 2) The western myth of brave cattle ranchers defending their territory in the far west is only…a myth....
I love writing about people who are different. Some are forced to adapt to new circumstances in order to survive, others are originals, folks who have never really fit into mainstream society. But no one is humdrum, and all have dreams. What do an embittered...
MUSE MONDAY I live in a hotel. Yes, I know: a sentence like that conjures up room service and a certain amount of luxury. But that’s far from my situation, as you’ll soon discover. I’ve always been fascinated by shabby old hotels, places that existed...
J. ARLENE CULINER Posted on July 1, 2022 by Marcia 9 1. I hear you have pets in your novel. Tell us about the book. Pets make an appearance in almost all my books. In my latest release, A Room in Blake’s Folly , we see a Nevada town evolve from a silver...
J. Arlene Culiner by tory richards | Oct 1, 2022 | Interviews | 0 comments Welcome, today we are talking with J. Arlene Culiner! I would like to thank you for taking time out of your busy writing schedule to answer a few questions. First, let’s delve...
In this snippet from A Swan's Sweet Song, country singer Sherry Valentine is surrounded by 'fans'. However, her manager, the manipulative Charlie Bacon, is attempting to arrange a romance with writer Carston Hewlett. “Well, Chicken, listen to this.” Charlie...
“I’m looking for work.” One elbow propped casually on the mahogany, one foot on the brass rail, Westley observed the woman who had just addressed Neddy. Work, she wanted? What sort of work did she think she would get here? She was your typical schoolmarm,...
Welcome, Marsha! Thanks for hosting me, Arlene. When it’s cold out or someone in the family gets a cold, our go-to meal is Homemade Chicken Veggie Soup. I swear, it’s really medicinal. On a couple of occasions, my husband has eaten it for dinner and then...
Come in, visit with writer Helen Henderson , read an excerpt from her romance fantasy Fire and Amulet, and discover her recipe for Lokse. Welcome to Food of Love, Helen Henderson. Tell us about your books and your writing: I honestly never planned on...
“You a widow?” “No.” She could hear the tightness in her voice and feel the tension in her shoulders. His eyes glinted. “A runaway wife.” “Not that either.” Did she have to say more? She didn’t. But since people were bound to be asking that same question...
The setting for The Turkish Affair is an archaeological site in central Turkey. My heroine, Anne, is a former American journalist who, after a scandalous affair with the wrong man, lost her job and her reputation. For the last ten years, she’s been in...
The Turkish Affair Love and Danger at the ancient Hittite site of Karakuyu Priceless artifacts are disappearing from the ancient Hittite site of Karakuyu in Turkey, and the site director has vanished. Called in to solve the mystery, archaeologist Renaud...
Okay, I know I’m not alone in this: I love making New Year’s resolutions… lots of them. It makes me feel so good knowing that, this year, I’ll finally: improve my (sometimes complicated) life, polish up my (not exactly perfect) looks, exploit my (unexploited)...
The Turkish Affair: Another Look at Romantic Suspense By J. Arlene Culiner Let’s start with those two words: Romantic Suspense. Don’t they conjure up stalkers, a serial killer or two, car chases, shoot-outs, terrorists, a gun-packing super heroine, and...
This week it is my pleasure to interview Jill Culiner. Would you please introduce yourself to my readers, Jill and share something about your life. First, thank you very much, Rita, for inviting me to come visit you here. It’s so much fun for me to meet...
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Writer, photographer, social critical artist, and impenitent teller of tall tales, J. Arlene Culiner, was born in New York and raised in Toronto. She has crossed much of Europe on foot, has lived in a mud house on the Great Hungarian Plain, a Bavarian castle, a Turkish cave dwelling, a haunted house on the English moors, and on a Dutch canal. She now resides in a 400-year-old former inn in a French village of no interest where, much to local dismay, she protects spiders, snakes, and all weeds. She particularly enjoys incorporating into mysteries, non-fiction, and romances, her experiences in out-of-the-way communities, and her conversations with very odd characters.
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A Small-Town Contemporary Romance Novella Sometimes the only way to end a relationship is to jump right into a...
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