Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Let’s Hear It for the Girls!
No matter how near we are to our biblically allotted three score years and ten, we always remember our milestone firsts: first kiss, first car, first horizontal episode. Mothers are likewise big on firsts: first word their child spoke, first step, first lost tooth. These events constitute the magical moments, forever tucked away in the […]
The Right Time To Write
I remember very clearly, where I was, when I decided I would finally write my book. I had waited for and imagined that inspired lightbulb moment for a long time. It’ll be when my son is a little older and starts nursery, I’d surmise, or when I finally have a desk I can sit at, […]
Amah Juanita by Roselle Lim
Roselle Lim was born in the Philippines and immigrated to Canada as a child. She lived in north Scarborough in a diverse, Asian neighbourhood. She found her love of writing by listening to her lola (paternal grandmother’s) stories about Filipino folktales. Growing up in a household where Chinese superstition mingled with Filipino Catholicism, she devoured […]
Things I Wish I’d Known Earlier
Ten years ago I published my first novel and when I look back, I marvel that I’m still here. But also how bumpy the road has sometimes been. Below are some of the things that might have helped if I’d known what I do now: That publishing is as commercial as it is creative, and […]
My Road To Publishing
From a young age I loved telling stories. I know that sounds like a cliché, but it’s true. At school, I couldn’t get to grips with maths, science or languages, but give me a novel and I was set. I would happily interpret them for exams and read books before they were on the syllabus […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Tracy Clark
Tracy Clark writes the Cass Raines PI series, which is set in Chicago. Her series debut, BROKEN PLACES, made Library Journal’s list of the Best Crime Fiction of 2018 and was short listed in the mystery category on the American Library Association’s 2019 Reading List. CrimeReads also named Cass Raines Best New PI of 2018. […]
Excerpt from Water Mask: Interpreting Frozen Ground
In Water Mask, Devine skis woodland trails with her baby on her back, navigates sea ice with whalers and whirls two thousand feet above the tundra with a rookie bush pilot. She negotiates the death of her father, and the near loss of her family’s cabin on the Copper River. Reflections on family, place, memory, work, […]
Writer or “Roadie”: Who Leads the Way – the Author or the Character?
Yes, I created a character in my image … but a way better version, and far more interesting. Sophie Bloom, the protagonist in my new novel, THE UNBREAKABLES, is a hot mess. Her marriage falls apart, her besties betray her, her 19-year-old daughter studying abroad is having an affair with her married professor, and she […]
Getting into the Zone
by Lynne Shelby There are days when the words flow so effortlessly from keyboard to WIP that it feels as though your characters have taken over your plot and are telling their stories for themselves, taking it in directions that you, the writer and supposedly their creator, would never have imagined. You are so deep […]
Why and How Two Strangers Wrote a BDSM Erotic Romance From Opposite Sides Of The Globe
As some of you may know, the online writing community can be one of the most supportive ones out there. Thanks to hashtags on social media, it’s easy to find your little posse of like-minded people. That’s how Amelia Foster and Deana Birch originally met, in a Twitter chat group of unpublished authors all struggling […]
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