Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Harvesting a Memoir
Muriel A. Murch The house is still. The family have flown to Los Angeles or Buenos Aires. My husband is in New York while I am here on the farm. We take turns reaching out to one another, I travel east more often than he comes west. We are as free to roam or stay […]
August Recommended Reads
Infidelity Rules: A Menu For Disaster, The Perils of Loving Food, Wine, and Married Men, Joelle Babula “Infidelity Rules is a delicious escape. The complexities of love and wine pair for an emotional journey alongside characters navigating broken hearts and moral dilemmas.” -Audrey Ingram, author of The River Runs South QUINN DAVIS shatters the norm. She’s […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Laura Resau
The Alchemy of Flowers “Utterly captivating. This beautiful novel casts a whispery spell of dark enchantments, secrets, and myth.” –Evie Woods, bestselling author of The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris A broken woman. A mysterious job ad. A chance to heal in French castle gardens–but strange things are growing behind the ancient stone walls. This […]
Valerie Burns interviews Madison Montgomery from ICING ON THE MURDER
From Agatha and Edgar Award nominated author Valerie Burns, influencer-turned-bakery-owner Maddy Montgomery has sold plenty of wedding cakes before, but before she turns one out for her and her fiancé’s wedding, she’ll have to solve a little case of murder first… Aunt Octavia would be so proud! Maddy has turned Baby Cakes Bakery—named for her […]
Inspiration for Out Of Ukraine
My novel “Out of Ukraine” is based on my true story of accompanying my son to Ukraine to pick up his daughter. He and his wife had used a surrogate in Ukraine because it was a third of the cost of using one in the United States. There were a handful of other countries that […]
The Business Of Being An Author
By Zelly Ruskin I thought the hard part was going to be finishing the book. Then I published. The image of an author is often one of someone chewing a pencil, with wads of papers beneath their chair. Maybe they’d be deep in thought, or frazzled—or both. In today’s world, they are sitting uninspired at […]
Unraveling the Knots: A Sister’s Relentless Fight for Justice in the Murder of Rebecca Zahau: Excerpt
Unraveling the Knots: A Sister’s Relentless Fight for Justice in the Murder of Rebecca Zahau Convinced that Rebecca Zahau’s death was not a suicide, her sister vowed to unravel the truth—no matter the cost. Unraveling the Knots is the gripping true story of Rebecca Zahau, a vibrant woman whose tragic death in 2011 ignited her family’s […]
Why We Need Historical Fiction Written by Women
by Patricia Furstenberg While I wrote When Secrets Bloom I asked myself, what happens when women take history into their own hands, pen first? In this deeply personal post, I explore why historical fiction written by women matters more than ever, especially when it brings to light forgotten voices from war and the medieval past. […]
A WRITER’S JOURNEY
Thomas Edison once said in regards to his work on the light bulb: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” The same could be said for me when it came to publishing a book. On another day, when I’ve been bombarded by rejection slips and bad reviews, I’d say that […]
Found at Fifty: My Journey Through the World and Back to Myself
Found at Fifty: My Journey Through the World and Back to Myself Found at Fifty: My Journey Through the World and Back to Myself is a memoir of reinvention. It is a story of a two-year, 200,000-mile journey that took me across five continents. I meditated at the feet of Buddha in the temples of […]
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