Author Archive: Tess Hardwick
Tess Hardwick is a novelist and playwright. She has a BFA in Drama from the University of Southern California.
Tess began her first novel, Riversong while her second daughter was eight months old, writing during naptimes and weekends. Riversong was released in April 2011 by Booktrope, a Seattle publisher. Like the main character in Riversong, Tess is from a small town in Southern Oregon and currently lives and writes in the state of Washington.
She was an active member of the theatre community in Seattle as an actor and director during the late nineties. Her first full-length play, My Lady’s Hand, won the 2001 first place prize for new work at the Burien Theatre. Tess is busy working on her second novel, an historical fiction set in 1930’s Alabama, based on a short story of her great-great grandmother’s.
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On Giving Yourself Permission
My training is in the theater as an actor and director. One year, during rehearsals for a play, I began a short relationship with the only man in the play, an inexperienced but charming actor. He fancied himself a writer and scribbled stream of consciousness into a notebook, long and wordy, signifying nothing. But he […]
Genre Discrimination with Women’s Fiction
There’s lots of talk about self-publishing discrimination, and more about gender discrimination, but it’s “genre” discrimination that is on my mind “Genre” is your book’s category. If we want to ever make any money writing, being associated with a certain genre is especially important in helping first time authors find their audience. My debut novel, […]
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