Category: Contemporary Women Writers
In Search of Home
When I was four years old, my parents and I immigrated to the United States as Soviet Jewish refugees. I grew up speaking Russian and English, holding onto some traditions and values of the old world, while learning the customs the new. While my current married name might belie my roots, being an immigrant is […]
Listening for the Heartbeat by Eliza Maxwell
Sometime back in the days before Instagram and Snapchat I found myself in a place I never expected to be. Exhausted. Two babies in two years and I didn’t know if I’d ever see another full night’s sleep. The Dance of Diapers and Bottles was taking a toll physically, yet the mental seesaw between utter […]
In Praise Of The Blind Item
I want to know less about more people. Admittedly, I’m partial. In researching and writing my new novel, Another Side of Paradise, I became thoroughly acquainted with Sheilah Graham, a columnist who pioneered gentle gossip even as she was the story, the last love of the very married (sorry, Zelda) F. Scott Fitzgerald. Call Sheilah’s […]
The Art of Co-Authoring
Writing is usually a solitary process. The author finds a story, fills it with characters and gets to decide who lives and who dies (at least until her editor gets involved). So most people’s response when I tell them that I write books with my sister is surprise: surprise that a creative process can be […]
Why I Wrote My Three Books In My Pensioner Years
One morning in Budapest during the autumn of 1944, an unknown official in charge of deporting Hungarian Jews sent back all the women accompanied by children. My Mother, Leona Grunwald, was one of those women and I was a tiny baby in her arms. I have no means of knowing who that official was and […]
Q&A with Laurie Nadel, PhD
Laurie Nadel, PhD., is a specialist in acute stress, trauma and anxiety issues. She is a member of a critical incident stress management team working with first responders. After losing her home to Hurricane Sandy, Dr. Laurie ran long-term support groups for survivors. From 2003 to 2005, she directed a program for teenagers whose fathers were […]
BEING AGENTED IRL – Part Three
A Twenty-Five-Question Interview Published as a Five Part Series Part One Part Two | Hosted by MM Finck | | Anonymously Answered By Agented Authors* with Varying Publishing Career Durations and Successes from Debut to Bestselling and Represented by Multiple Literary Agencies of Varying Sizes | QUESTION ELEVEN Historically, how many story ideas do you […]
It’s Never Too Late
When it comes to writing fiction, I’m a late bloomer. Like, really late. I wrote my first historical romance novel when I was forty-six. So, what the hell have I been doing all those years? I like to think I was busy becoming a writer—I just took the looooong road. Or maybe just a really […]
Should You Rely On Memory?
When you’ve known a secret family story for four decades and you decide to transform the narrative into a historical novel, the big question is how much should you rely on memory and how much on documented research? In my case, the story my father told me was about our family’s original home in Nesvicz, […]
Beyond Therapy: How Writing Emotional Detox Lead Me to a Better Path
Sherianna Boyle, MEd CAGS is the author of Emotional Detox: 7 Steps to Release Toxicity and Energize Joy (May 15, 2018, Adams Media, a division of Simon & Schuster) and founder of C.L.E.A.N.S.E Yoga. ™. She is an adjunct psychology professor, certified energy practitioner, yoga instructor, mother of three girls, and author of seven books; […]
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