Category: Contemporary Women Writers
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 […]
The Accidental Novelist
I didn’t plan on becoming a novelist, but I am one, thanks to a deathbed promise I made to fulfill someone else’s dream. Here’s how that happened. In the 1980s and 1990s, my mother, Rona S. Zable, had four young adult and middle grade books published by major New York publishers. Those novels—Love at the […]
Small Press Pages July 2025
Small Press Pages July 2025 Despite the evolution of the publishing industry to involve various players besides large publishers (i.e. hybrid, independent, and small publishers as well as digital and audio books), books released by large presses still garner most of the attention. This column hopes to shed light on some of the diverse books […]
Hooked On Tragic Love Stories
By Anastasia Rubis I have a friend whose fiancé was paralyzed in a skiing accident and later died of complications. She still can’t speak his name, though this happened a decade ago, and she refers to him simply as my love. When I told her I was writing a novel about Oriana Fallaci, the legendary […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Diane Papalia Zappa Interviews the Love of her Life
When Bob and Diane met, it was love at first sight. For both of them. In her memoirs, The Married Widow: My Journey with Bob Zappa and its companion piece, Dear Bobby: My Grief Journey, Diane describes the evolution of their relationship from their meeting in 1986 to their marriage in 2015 and his passing […]
Momentous and Mundane: Spending Time with Writer’s Block
By Callie J. Smith I dread writer’s block. Unfortunately, my most recent novel, The Joy of a Field, left me spending more time with writer’s block than either of the other novels in my Sacred Grounds trilogy. I kept imagining the block creeping out from some opaque corner of my mind where it lived, always […]
The Power of Story and Community
The power of story and community It’s clear that the effects of climate change are already being felt around the world – storms, wildfires, droughts, species extinctions – and also that governments are failing to address it with anything like the urgency that’s needed. One of the best ways to spread the word about the […]
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