Category: Contemporary Women Writers
How To Deal With Inadequacy
Writers will say that their job is both the best and worst job on earth. Best, well, because we spend our days in recreating the world as we want it, from the safety of our desk. Worst…well here the list is longer: writing is the cause of hunched shoulders and a flat butt, you’re stuck […]
When a Book Release is Truly a Release
I wasn’t sure I’d ever finish writing my memoir. The Art of Misdiagnosis is centered around my mother’s suicide; she took her own life exactly one week after I gave birth to my youngest child in 2009. I felt great urgency to try to make sense of that charged, disorienting time, but the story felt so […]
My Body: My Words
When we think of revolution, we think of college students planting daisies down the barrel of a gun, courageous young men and women staring down tanks in Tiananmen square, or children marching with their parents on the streets in Baltimore, but for those fighting the war on body image, the struggle isn’t always so obvious. […]
The Inspiration Behind The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter
The story was initially inspired by my own stranger-than-fiction friendship with well-known Spanish flamenco guitarist, Josemi Carmona – that started with a tweet. After many years in a highly successful flamenco fusion band, he had come out with a solo album. I’d liked clips of it on YouTube but, unable to find it on Amazon, […]
Taking Back the House By Elaine Neil Orr
The year I attended first grade, I lived with my family in a two-story house (the style is called a foursquare) in the West End neighborhood of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The house already seemed a bit run down. It had probably been a rental for some years. Among my most vivid memories is a small […]
Walking My Talk
As an author of a self-help book, I’ve done my best to share and live what I have learned about gathering calm around me during times of change. Feeling exposed, definitely not a calm feeling, has been my most prevalent emotional state as I’ve stepped into this new role of published author. Last month, a […]
Interview in Writers Digest: Curation & Community: Inside the Online Literary Magazine Women Writers, Women’s Books
We’re hugely excited about featuring in Writer’s Digest! Read the interview HERE
ADJUSTING TO YES by Julie Maloney
The journalist sitting across from me in the café was someone who had been following me for years. Several times, she had written about the non-profit organization I founded fifteen years ago called Women Reading Aloud. She had kept up with how things had progressed from welcoming writers gathered around the dining table in my […]
A Mother and Daughter Crime Fighting Duo for the 21st Century
Literature has not been kind to mothers. From the earliest stories fed to us at bedtime, mothers die and get replaced with evil stepmothers. Coming of age stories are filled with overbearing maternal figures. It’s the mother who creates a serial killer or gives birth to psychopaths. I didn’t set out to write a mother/daughter […]
FREE FALLING INTO THE UNPLOTTED NOVEL
It was a dark and stormy night, which was not getting me off to a good start. But at least there were words on the page. I had a great idea, I knew where I wanted it to go, sort of. All I had to do was inject a good dose of drama and some […]
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