Category: Contemporary Women Writers
The Importance of Writing Nonsense
Not long before we were married, my husband and I found ourselves chaperoning a road trip with a group of high school students. My grandmother, now deceased, had been kind enough to send along some homemade goodies for the journey. Two rest stops into the trip, my husband lifted the lid on Grandma’s Tupperware to […]
Stop Writing, Start Listening
Ah, the joy of writing conferences. The anticipation is almost worth the registration fee. For weeks prior, I dream of leaving my basement office to the spiders, traveling to a shiny new city, and sleeping sideways in a hotel’s king-size bed. Recently, I registered for a conference with about a hundred other writers. All women. […]
Finding Acceptance and Peace Through the Ceremony of Writing
As a chronically indecisive person, I have a hard time choosing what to order at a restaurant, let alone which restaurant to go to. I get lost in an endless cycle of pros and cons, no matter the decision. So, the really big ones—like whether or not to have a child—can be agonizing. I’d always […]
The Best Books in Life Aren’t Always Free
If you’re like me (and pretty much every other author on the planet), your most fervent desire is to find readers who’ll love your writing and be ready, willing and able to pay for the opportunity to read all those beautiful words you’ve toiled over. But, to paraphrase our dear writer pal, Will Shakespeare, “therein […]
What’s Your Writerly Unique Selling Point?
When I decided to fly to California and train as a bounty hunter it wasn’t part of a marketing strategy but as research for my debut novel – Deep Down Dead. You see, back then I was about 40,000 words into my first draft of a thriller featuring a single mom bounty hunter, and I […]
Where I Find My Inspiration: Thelma Adams
I find a lot of my inspiration for writing novels in the past. For my current book, out November 6th, Bittersweet Brooklyn: A Novel , part of the inspiration came from a crime that occurred in October 1935. And that crime, the murder of “Pretty Amberg,” the aftermath pictured in the photograph above, somehow involved my […]
Unmasking Lee Kofman
Once upon a time, I began my writing life the way all writers did in my dinosaur days (the 80s) – as a fiction writer. Or that was what I thought I was. ‘What you’ve written is a diary,’ the publisher of my first book, a novel, informed me, but published it anyway. (It sold […]
A Year of Firsts – Highs, Lows & Coincidences
2018 has been a year of firsts, pleasant highs, an extreme low, and a handful of coincidences. It is the year I self-published my novel, Beneath the Lion’s Wings; went on an East Coast USA book tour; participated in a taped segment of NBC’s The Today Show; filmed a travel show to be aired on […]
The Power of Never Giving Up
Time flies. We all know it. Whether you’re having fun or not. Whether the years are filled with sublime happiness or utter sadness, or, like most of us, with a combination of both. It simply goes, and sometimes, our dreams go with it. We turn around and ten or twenty years have whipped by and […]
Stop Looking to Others to Create a Life of Joy
Originally published on Psych Central I believe there is not enough dialogue out there about soul-sickness, especially among wealthy communities. We are taught to believe from a young age that once we have the perfect partner, house, car, children, and careers, we will be happy. And often times this is not the case; the happiness […]
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