Category: Contemporary Women Writers
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 […]
Six Books in Three Years: An Indie Publishing Journey By Susan Cushman
The quickly changing world of book publishing can be a difficult terrain to traverse for a new writer. After spending a decade “prepping” for this leg of the journey by writing and publishing essays in various journals and magazines and building a platform on social media, I was finally ready to publish a book. And […]
Why Storytelling Matters
One of the important things I’ve learned over the course of my long career as an academic administrator is that we define ourselves as human beings through storytelling. After I retired, I became inspired to write my own life’s story, resulting in my first book, Where the Water Meets the Sand. The experience of writing my memoir […]
Memoir Writing Tips
I confess I’ve become a compulsive participant in memoir writing workshops. My first one was with Joyce Maynard in Guatemala in 2014, and my own memoir was born there under the volcanoes. Five years later, it will be published on October 1st. Listening to the authors sharing those drafts of memoirs in the writing circle […]
Psychology and Writing
The connections I’ve made, and resisted, between my career as a psychologist and my career as a writer have shifted over time. For many years, I felt the pull between my work as a psychologist and my desire to write as a constant conflict. I spent a considerable amount of time studying, working to get […]
Me And My Agent by Holly Seddon
Where to start? To be frank, I can’t think of another job like literary agent. It sits in the Venn diagram of creativity, inspiration, career management and business acumen. But that doesn’t really explain it. A good agent helps shape ideas, offers editorial notes on outlines and manuscripts, pitches novels to publishers and then argues […]
Longing for Treasure
By Sandra A. Miller Sometimes I wanted to leave, but I couldn’t. There were always brown bag lunches to prepare and a pile of papers to grade, kids to drive to music lessons and weekends crammed with soccer games—so many soccer games. I couldn’t even tell where my own needs began and ended. I read Eat Pray […]
Who Is The Inspiration?
Nervous, scared, anxiously looking around the room, feeling like every word you say is being judged. This are recognisable feelings in everyone, and that is before you start to share your writing. But I’m not talking about the new writing students here, those who are determined to fill a lifelong ambition and who embark on […]
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