Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Getting to Know my Characters
I’ve always been interested in who people really are and the darker side of human nature. I love creating characters; thinking about what makes them tick. It fascinates me. When an author friend of mine, Nicci Cloke, (who also writes under the name Phoebe Locke) recommended a service called Characters on the Couch run by […]
The Woman In The Dark
I grew up in a small Gloucestershire village – back then, there were only four channels on the telly and as a teenager there was nothing to do and nowhere to go. My nearest library was ten miles away, my nearest bookshop twenty. I was never one of the hanging-round-on street-corner kids, I preferred to […]
My Journey To Publication: Anita Frank
Like most would-be writers, I have dreamt of being an author since I was a child. I had my first stab at getting published in my late teens when, encouraged by their open submissions policy, I sent a couple of truly awful romances to Mills and Boon. They were, of course, both promptly rejected, but […]
How Grief Changed My Reading
Books have been my companions since childhood. The books, the stories, the characters all woven into my life. When my days had been full of people and when I’ve been alone. I grew up with my nose forever in a book. I was in Great Books in elementary school, majored in English Literature in college, […]
Not Our Grandmother’s 70
By Jayne Martin If someone had told me when I was 30, that I would be publishing my first book of short fiction at the age of 70, undoubtedly I would have smirked and said, “From where? A rocker at the old folks’ home?” Only the young can be so cocky. In all fairness, at age […]
How to Market a Backlisted Book
Diana Y. Paul, author of Things Unsaid Once buzz of a new book has died down, there’s nothing you can do to market that book except publish the next one. Is that the myth you’ve accepted? You can continue marketing a book effectively to reach new readers well after its release date. Think of how […]
Rediscovering Writing After Publication
As a child, when asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I never said firefighter or ballerina or astronaut. I wanted to be a writer. In college, and when I first started writing seriously in my twenties, I loved the world that writing created. When I was writing, or thinking about writing, […]
Interview with Lydia Grey, one of The Silver Ladies of London
My name is Lesley Eames and I write 1920s-set historical romances. The first of these, The Silver Ladies of London was shortlisted in the 2019 UK Romantic Novel Awards run by the Romantic Novelists’ Association together with Goldsboro Books. I’m delighted to be introducing Women Writers to one of those Silver Ladies, Lydia Grey, who […]
What Breed is Your Writer?
Dogs come in many different shapes and sizes, and they have very different characteristics. While training my puppy, a Labrador retriever named Capone, I spent a lot of time around other puppies, and realized something astonishing. Different breeds of dogs are like different types of writers. This seemed like such an extraordinary idea, but when […]
INTERVIEW WITH NICOLE MEIER
Nicole Meier is a native Southern Californian who pulled up roots and moved to the Pacific Northwest, where she lives with her husband, three children, and one very nosey Aussiedoodle. Her debut novel, THE HOUSE OF BRADBURY, was chosen as a Best Book of 2016 by Refinery29. Her second novel, THE GIRL MADE OF CLAY, was […]
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