Nora Ephron and the Price of Baring it all
Life is a supermarket of raw materials. Any and every experience we encounter is fair game for the writer's canvas.
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Mia Sivan
- Aug 27
- 2 min
Balancing Act: Imagination Meets Reality in Storytelling📺📚
In the world of literature and television, there is a contract between authors and readers, writers and TV viewers: some details are...
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Mia Sivan
- Jun 8
- 2 min
JPMorgan gets screwed and I'm writing about it
I never try to invent a scam.
Why would I, when other people have gone to such trouble to think of it, act on it, and get caught for it?
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Mia Sivan
- May 25
- 2 min
Are your characters real people?
Are your characters real people?
The short answer is yes.
The long answer is yes, but not really.
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Mia Sivan
- May 15
- 2 min
Write what you believe, do as you write
It would have been much easier to play ball, to be friends with everyone. To be nice and confirm by the rules - the rules men made.
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Mia Sivan
- May 3
- 2 min
Do you have a Girl Squad?
A driven career woman finds her girl squad, love, success (and lots of hot s*x)
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Mia Sivan
- Feb 22
- 2 min
A belated valentine blog
I’m often asked whether I do research before writing steamy scenes. The answer is of course I do. I read fiction books, visit websites,...
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Mia Sivan
- Feb 10
- 1 min
I'm dropping the F bomb
My non-negotiables as an author. My duties to my readers.
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Mia Sivan
- Jan 13
- 2 min
A funny thing happened with ChatGpt
It is agreed that despite ChatGpt great capabilities, its style is flat and dry, and it 'lacks emotions'. I beg to differ.
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Mia Sivan
- Dec 28, 2022
- 1 min
Recharging through Reading
I'm sharing with you a couple of reads that are a way for me to recharge my mental batteries and think differently about the world.
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Mia Sivan
- Dec 18, 2022
- 2 min
I want to be like Jason Statham (Or: How I sat to write you a free holiday story)
A free holiday story if you join my list.
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Mia Sivan
- Nov 18, 2022
- 2 min
What's my Kink
Asking what’s my kink isn't the same as asking what's my fantasy, but it's the same thing as asking what is my norm.
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Mia Sivan
- Nov 3, 2022
- 2 min
The Real Story behind my Next Book
I’m at the editing stage of my second book, which will be out in early 2023. It took me a while to write this one as I had a hard time...
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Mia Sivan
- Oct 11, 2022
- 2 min
Food in My Books
A couple of posts ago, I lauded intimate scenes in romance novels, and (https://www.miasivan.com/post/why-do-we-need-sex-scenes) argued...
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Mia Sivan
- Apr 16, 2022
- 1 min
My book is out! on to the next one...
My next book is called 'Analyzing her Assets' and it also happens in the financial world of Tel Aviv.
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Mia Sivan
- Aug 15, 2021
- 3 min
How I got back my creative juices
I couldn’t get any useful idea in my head, neither could I plan any plot, deliver a newsletter, post a blog entry.
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