Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Bringing Back a Favorite Character
My second book, Our Love Could Light The World, is a collection of linked stories about the Dugan family in the fictional town of Dunston, New York. The Dugans are made up of the parents, Potter and Lavinia, and their five children. Potter drinks and can’t hold down a job. Lavinia works like mad to […]
My Book Club Made Me An Author
My book group formed seven years ago. A dozen busy, smart, book-obsessed women in Portland, Oregon, we’re probably not that different from most neighborhood book clubs. We struggle to make time for reading, there’s always someone who confesses that she hasn’t had time to finish the book, and there’s usually another who clearly didn’t finish, […]
Is Seasoned Romance a Real Thing?
So what’s up with the world of romance novels? Why is it that if you’re a woman of a certain age, then nobody wants to read about your love life? All of us fifty- and sixty-somethings and beyond are still falling in love, rediscovering love, renewing love, and by golly, we’re still having sex, and […]
Optical Research
“Of course it wasn’t a romantic getaway,” I said in 2015, after spending Valentine’s Weekend in Paris. “It was optical research!” And after tramping the Paris streets searching for wartime locations for my second book, The English Agent, I had the blisters on my feet and scribbles in my notebook to prove it (although I’ll […]
Women Inspired My Novel
All authors get asked, “What was your inspiration for writing your novel?” For me, it wasn’t so much “what,” but “who” is my inspiration. Without a doubt my answer is women. I have had the greatest honor of raising four daughters—a dream come true that mirrored a treasured Louisa May Alcott story, Little Women. Each […]
Read. Write. Reflect. : Excerpt
Monica Bhide is an internationally renowned writer known for sharing food, culture, love, and life with a lyrical voice and universal appeal. Her tenth book, READ. WRITE. REFLECT: Inspiration for Creative Minds”, is now available in digital and paperback. READ — FOCUS A few years ago, I found myself in a difficult spot. I was […]
There Is No Right Way To A Writing Career
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” I could always answer that question. I knew I wanted to be two things: a mom and a writer. When I was twelve, my own mother gave me a journal and a pencil. I promptly rode my bike to a grassy knoll near my house, […]
According to a Source author Abby Stern Gives Us A VIP Tour of the Red Carpet
I’ve been drawn to creative writing since early childhood. When a creative writing class was an option as an elective in middle school, I knew it would be my elective. I was on the staff of my school’s literary magazine throughout high school and then switched my focus to screenplays. I’d never set out to […]
One Life Changing Invitation
With one invitation, my life was changed in the most miraculous of ways. I can barely remember my life before Samantha Stroh Bailey, Josie Brown, Eileen Goudge, Francine LaSala, Jen Tucker, and Julie Valerie became a part of it. We were brought together as a group in May, 2013 during the annual Book Expo America […]
On Being Read: Shelf Life
SHELF LIFE Back in the days when I thought it would be a cinch to command a print run of, say, thirty thousand, I used to dream of being read, dozens of readers dawdling over every inch, dallying with each irresistible insight. I thought of our intercourse as a fertile two-way street, spurring us all […]
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