Category: Contemporary Women Writers
I Wrote This Little Book
Rachel Levy Lesser A few months ago, I ran into a friend at a smoothie shop I frequent in my town. This friend of mine was drinking a smoothie with a friend of hers — someone I didn’t know. The conversation went something like this. My friend: “This is my friend, Rachel. She is an amazing writer and she has this new book coming out.” My friend’s friend: “That’s so cool. What’s the book […]
My Route To Publication
Route to publication through oft-asked questions… Did you take a writing course? My first big step to moving from writing as a hobby to writing professionally came when I applied to take the Curtis Brown Creative course. There’s nothing like reading out your work to a room full of writers to clarify what is working […]
Professional Envy
We’ve all experienced professional envy at least once in our lives. When a colleague gets a pay rise and you don’t; when you’re skipped over for a promotion; when one person on your team always seems to hit their targets. But why do we never talk about professional envy between authors? While I’m sure we’d […]
My Debut Journey
My journey is similar to other debut journeys, but it’s also completely unique. I come from science, and I’ve always had a passion for writing. When I was in fourth grade, I wrote my first book. It was a story about keeping those who had left us in our hearts, and the title was Every […]
The Art Of Being Enough
The Art of Being Enough It was mid-summer. As I sat in my quiet office and edited my manuscript, the dilemmas had increased instead of decreased. I shifted passages from past tense to past perfect. I changed lacked to lost when referring to my mother’s breast. I questioned if anyone cared whether I was eight […]
Why We Love the Magic So Much: Women’s Fiction and the Supernatural By Rachel Dacus
What makes some of us crave women’s fiction that has elements of magic? In my case, it all started with the Oz books. At a formative age, I learned to identify with a kickass heroine like Dorothy, who made her way through mystifying, dangerous magical lands. I also identified with the magical female denizens of […]
Monsters
Monsters. We have always been fascinated by them: either to gather macabre evidence to prove their existence, or otherwise to emphatically disprove it. They can be fantastical, supernatural, or far too close to home – monsters who hide in plain sight, who remind us that humanity can often be a thinly-veiled concept. As a sixth-form […]
Fulfilling A Special Wish
I grew up in Islington during the 1970s. when most parents would spend their time in the pub, dragging their kids along and sitting them outside with a bottle of coke and a bag of crisps. They would tell you to behave, then they would emerge five hours later and you had to try and […]
What I Learned on Submission By Diane Barnes
I recently learned that my novel MORE THAN will be published on October 29, 2019. I cried big, ugly tears of joy when I received the news. It’s my third book, and I have never been that emotional about a release before. For a long time, I feared this novel would live in my bottom […]
Love Female Characters in Crime fiction? Thank the History of Women in Noir
Grief takes people in different ways. Mrs. Allynson’s had moved her to change her chalk-stripe costume for a soft, blue housedress that fitted in her waist, fell loose along her arms and clung from her hips down. The blue was livened by a string of cut stones of a lighter shade, a dark silk flower […]
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