Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Writing Through the Wreckage: How I Turned My Trauma Into a Memoir That Set Me Free
By Brooke Deanne, Author of Shattered, Broken & Beautiful I never set out to write a memoir. I set out to survive. To simply make sense of the shattered, and broken pieces of my life. To piece myself back together after years of religious oppression, narcissistic abuse, childhood trauma, and deeply buried sexual abuse that […]
Stories, and the Unexpected Garden Path
By Juliet Greenwood The book I’m working on at the moment is based around a garden. That’s not surprising, as most of my stories involve gardens in one way or another – after all, my first published novel is called Eden’s Garden, and you can’t get more garden than that! Until this year, I wasn’t […]
The Lost Book of First Loves, by RaeAnne Thayne: EXCERPT
THE LOST BOOK OF FIRST LOVES From New York Times bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne comes a brand-new story about two women, a family secret and a lost manuscript that changes everything… Raised by her literary icon father Carson Wells, Alison Wells always felt loved, even though her mother died when she was a teen. But when she […]
Writing Through Grief: The Journey of Higher Love
In November 2021, I embarked on my fourth novel, Higher Love, during the whirlwind of NaNoWriMo, fueled by the ambition to release it by early 2023. That dream, however, was deferred by life’s relentless challenges—relocation, loss, and profound grief. After a long, difficult road, Higher Love finally met readers on May 12, 2025. The delays […]
The Unknown Soldier
I wish I had found this image of a confident young Confederate cavalryman before I had written a word of Measure of Devotion. In truth, though, the book was nearly finished and I was actually looking for something else when I encountered him in a huge sheaf of old family photos. The photo you see […]
The N8 Self: You are more than your Mind, Body, & Emotions, by Jules Kuroda: Excerpt
The N8 Self: You are more than your Mind, Body, & Emotions Loneliness is a situation that we create. The N8 Self invites the reader into holistic connection beyond just the mind, body, and heart and into the aspect of self we don’t talk much about, the human spirit. This powerful part of our human experience […]
BEACH HOUSE RULES by Kristy Woodson Harvey: Excerpt
“Southern bestselling sensation” (Katie Couric Media) Kristy Woodson Harvey returns with a delightfully moving new novel about a mother-daughter duo learning to lean on their community of women—and each other—after their world is turned upside down. When Charlotte Sitterly’s husband is arrested for a white-collar crime, she and her daughter Iris are locked out of […]
Mental Illness Is a Family Affair
Mental Illness Is a Family Affair There’s no doubt that when someone has mental health challenges, it’s the hardest on that individual. However, it does also have a marked impact on those around them. And as much as a person with mental illness needs support, so do the people close to them who see their […]
Child of Light, Jesi Bender: Excerpt
Child of Light Jesi Bender Thirteen-year-old Ambrétte Memenon has lived her entire life estranged from her wealthy mother, career-minded father, and older brother Modeste. After a series of financial failures, the family is forced to reunite in rural upstate NY in the Spring of 1896. Together in the new house but basically strangers, the family […]
How I Help Young People with Anxiety in my Book: Vanishings
By Catharina Steel Children struggle with anxiety the same as adults, and it’s beneficial if they are taught how to manage this, possibly working with a specialist to figure out what tools work best for them, and in which scenarios. Young people aren’t necessarily equipped to manage stressful events when they happen, and this can […]
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