Category: Contemporary Women Writers
The Science Of Writing
Like most of my writer friends, I live a double life. My writing life is a living, breathing thing that exists atop a whole other life filled with work and kids and car pool and soccer practice. In truth, some days it seems there is very little room left for my writing life. Some days […]
What Happened When I Gave Up My Day Job
It’s now been over three years since I gave up my day job to become a full-time writer. I had a high-powered busy job and I travelled extensively for work. The launch of my first novel had to be fitted in around my work travel and felt like yet another chore that I needed to […]
How I Embraced Vulnerability to Tell the Story of Becoming Starlight
Writing a book. To be quite honest, the thought had never entered my mind; I’d never written anything other than personal prose or patient charts that were never meant to see the light of day. The idea was so remote that it would’ve been, as in the Twilight Zone monologue, like “opening a door into […]
From No-Where to Now-Here: Intuition’s Role in a Writer’s Life
”Are there any ‘bounds to a writer’s job’ except those imposed by his own finiteness?” J.R.R. Tolkien I was in a checkout line one day when an inspired thought raced into my mind, solving a nagging issue with my pending book. My subject was intuitive development. My mission was to reposition what is typically thought […]
From Soaps To Saga
My debut novel BELLE OF THE BACK STREETS is out now in paperback, published by Headline. Two further novels will be published by Headline too – THE TUPPENNY CHILD is published in hardback, audio and ebook May 2019. And late in 2019, my third novel will be published, the title of which I can’t yet […]
Life By The Books
I’ve been wondering lately if one day I’ll look back on my creative work in terms of the life chapters during which the work was done. I wrote my first book, a memoir, in my twenties. Part of it I wrote as my master’s thesis, part of it I wrote while teaching. Although I was […]
My Writing Journey — She’s Mine
‘You just think lovely wonderful thoughts,’ Peter explained, ‘and they lift you up in the air.’ Peter Pan, J M Barrie She’s Mine, my debut novel marks a milestone on my three-year journey from aspiring writer to published author. If I had to sum up my advice to new writers from what I have learnt […]
Women Adventuring in Time
Time travel novel heroines? It’s a pretty short list. Most of these characters fall into another century and fall in love. There’s nothing wrong with that reason for parting time’s folds, but a fascinating subset of time-bending heroines have other agendas. Some aim to improve the present world by changing its past, in large and […]
The Windy Road to Writing
If you had asked me when I was a kid what—or more accurately, who—I wanted to be when I grew up, my answer would have been a cross between Marlo Thomas’ character, Ann Marie, in “That Girl” and Jane Goodall, the British primatologist. Ann Marie was a struggling actress living in New York City, an […]
The Hidden Worlds by Sandra Ingerman
I have always loved working with children. Since the 1980s I have been teaching children of all ages how to perform shamanic journeys as this is such a powerful way to help children and young adults feel empowered by challenging life situations. Over the years I have also worked with children who needed healing work […]
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