Category: Contemporary Women Writers
The Martians Never Came, But Quito Still Went to War
By Lorena Hughes Humans have always been fascinated by other worlds, particularly by the possibility of life on Mars and the question of whether such beings might visit us one day. Nowhere was this fascination more evident than in 1940s and 1950s pop culture: pulp magazines and comics filled with alien encounters, songs like the […]
The Myth of the Maligned Woman
By Louisa Morgan As a girl, I devoured many books based on the Arthurian legends—A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, The Crystal Cave, The Once and Future King, and so on. Recently, someone mentioned Morgan le Fay to me, and my memories of all those wonderful tales resurfaced. As a historical novelist, I naturally […]
Finding My Voice By Rikki West
Finding My Voice By Rikki West “You slip the voice back and forth from adult narrator to the child perspective,” my first editor pointed out after reading a few chapters of The Empty Bowl. She showed me how the use of “Daddy” instead of “my father” could change the entire tone of a sentence. At […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Janis M. Falk
NOT YET LOST For fans of Kristin Hannah and Jennifer Chiaverini, a novel about a Polish immigrant woman who fights against worker oppression in Depression-era Detroit despite opposition by many—even her own husband. In this gritty, cinematic story, hardworking Florence and her best friend, Basia, are enraged by the poor treatment, low wages, and unsafe […]
A Week in Berlin: A Novel of Fate, Survival and the Shadows of History
By Angelina Der Arakelian The Inspiration Behind the Story The idea for A Week in Berlin came to me when I started to contemplate my great-grandfather’s survival of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 – a story so improbable that it has always felt like both a miracle and a burden of fate. As the family […]
There Is No Spoon
By Barbara Bos Hans Bos, my father, passed away on Monday, Sept 1st. I’ll miss him terribly, but he left behind art and plenty of inspiration. I wrote this piece about him last year. Dag lieverd…xox June 27, 2024 I’m not sure if I’m ready for this. I’ve just sat down in my window seat, […]
August: Reading With Rochelle Weinstein
Hello Readers & Friends, August is in the books, and before we get to actual books, I’d like to welcome new readers and share the hows and whys of this column. I read a ton. My preference is women’s fiction, literary, thrillers, and some historical fiction and memoirs. I’m always reading a physical book and […]
Whatever Happened To Lori Lovely? by Sarah McCoy: Excerpt
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO LORI LOVELY? From New York Times bestselling author Sarah McCoy—a spellbinding novel based on a true story: a beautiful young movie star of Hollywood’s Golden Age gives up her bright career to become a nun. In 1969, twenty-three-year-old starlet Lori Lovely, the apple of Hollywood’s eye, shocks the world by ditching a promising film […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Patricia Leavy, author of Cinematic Destinies
CINEMATIC DESTINIES For fans of Tessa Bailey and Hannah Grace, Cinematic Destinies is a feel-good, contemporary romance about a trio of adult children searching for love and beauty in the shadow of their parents’ legendary Hollywood fairy-tale romance. Legendary actor Finn Forrester and his wife philosopher Ella Sinclair Forrester met on the location shoot for Jean Mercier’s […]
Women and War: Letters from Ukraine to the Free World
By Aurélie Bros I became a researcher for a simple reason—to seek truth wherever it may be found. For over a decade, I devoted myself to studying energy geopolitics, with a particular focus on the post-Soviet region. I lived there, published, taught, and conducted my research. My life was intertwined with the region in countless […]
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