Category: Contemporary Women Writers
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 […]
THE LIFE AND LOVES OF E. NESBIT
Edith Nesbit is considered the inventor of the children’s adventure story and her brilliant children’s books influenced bestselling authors including C.S. Lewis, P. L. Travers, J.K. Rowling, and Jacqueline Wilson, to name but a few. But who was the person behind the best loved classics The Railway Children and Five Children and It? Eleanor Fitzsimons, acclaimed biographer and […]
This Parisian Life
Every morning in Paris I walk my dog across the Seine and look up river. On the horizon stands the Notre Dame Cathedral, until recently the spire pointing to the sky. In my mind’s eye she looms larger in the vista than she does in real life but that is surely due to her outsized […]
Writing and the Arts as Therapy
I remember the day in eighth grade when our teacher, Mr. Johnson, stood in front of the class and called us to attention. “This is the best piece of student writing I have come across in my twenty-two years of teaching,” he told us. Our homework that night was to write an essay. What he […]
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