Category: Contemporary Women Writers
My Husband’s Child by Alison Ragsdale: Excerpt
My Husband’s Child When I find a little girl standing on my doorstep, I don’t know what to do. But as I take her small hand in mine, she whispers words that will change my life. ‘Mummy said you’d look after me.’ Ever since her husband left her for another woman, Cora has been trying to put […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Elaine Neil Orr
Elaine Neil Orr, interviewing Isabel Hammond from Dancing Woman, Blair, 2025 DANCING WOMAN Elaine Neil Orr, born in Nigeria to expat parents, brings us an indelible portrait of a young female artist, torn between two men and two cultures, struggling to find her passion and her purpose. It’s 1963 and Isabel Hammond is an expat […]
What (Not To) Expect At Your First Book Signing
My first time at a table in a busy large-chain bookstore, copies of my book stacked on either side and Sharpie at the ready, went much differently than expected. First, the good stuff: the full-circle moment when I walked in and saw my book front and center on a table (having frequented that location for […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Shirley Russak Wachtel
The Baker of Lost Memories From the author of A Castle in Brooklyn comes an epic novel spanning decades about the broken bonds of family, memories of war, and redemption and hope in the face of heartbreaking loss. Growing up in 1960s Brooklyn, Lena wants to be a baker just like her mother was back in Poland […]
Turning Rejection Into Resilience: Proof That Dreams Don’t Need Permission
By Kay Bratt If you’re familiar with the traditional publishing world, you probably know the nerve-wracking experience of submitting a manuscript to your editor and waiting on tenterhooks for their response. You may even know the sinking feeling of receiving feedback that says, “It’s a good story, but not for us.” I’ve been publishing books […]
My Marriage Sabbatical: A Memoir of Solo Travel and Lasting Love by Leah Fisher: Excerpt
A vibrant, honest, and unique travel memoir for readers who think they’re too old to “eat, pray, love,” My Marriage Sabbatical captures marital therapist Leah Fisher’s journey to maintain her marriage without forfeiting her own independence. She wants to travel the world; he wants to keep working. At sixty, Leah Fisher is ready to Love, Honor, and […]
The Taking, a New Novel by Dona Masi, Explores What it’s Like to Confront the Unknown
By Dona Masi Human history is filled with stories about encounters with strange beings from other planets. In these stories, human beings are confronted by the unknown in their experiences with out-of-the-world creatures, and it changes their lives forever. At least this is true according to the legends of unidentified flying objects and alien abductions, […]
RIP Villager J
By Barbara Bos Villager J and I always saluted when we encountered each other, backs straight, heels clicking. I’m not sure who started it. I think I did. It became our inside joke. Today I’m going to salute him one last time but he won’t salute me back because he’s inside a coffin and it’s […]
Did You Come This Far To Only Come This Far?
Did You Come This Far To Only Come This Far? By Rachel Stone It’s often said we shouldn’t dwell in the past. That we need to let it go. To live in the now, and focus on the future. Well, I’m just going to put it out there: sometimes that rear-view mirror is the only way forward. It’s no secret […]
Chucking the Rules and Finding Ultimate Freedom in Indie Publishing
How one author with a wildly different book had to do it herself. Welp! Things don’t often happen as one thinks they should. As I penned (for the last twenty-plus years) what I once believed to be the next great American novel, I never considered that getting my story into the hands of readers would […]
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