Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Q and A with Yang Huang
YANG HUANG grew up in China’s Jiangsu province and participated in the 1989 student uprisings. Her debut novel, Living Treasures, won the Nautilus Book Award silver medal in fiction, and her essays and short stories have appeared in The Margins, Eleven Eleven, Asian Pacific American Journal, the Evansville Review, Futures, Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine, and […]
ON EVOLUTION AS A WRITER
As I prepare to release my fifth book and I look back on my evolution as a writer, I am reflecting on how much has changed … and how much has stayed the same. I wrote my first book with no knowledge and no plan—a truly wonderful way to write a book. Each day I […]
When Art Meets Politics: Is it Still Quality Fiction?
Whence arises the question above? If you have spent time in mainstream literature classes, alas, you will know. While the bias against mixing art (or what elite folk think of as “real art”) with the political has greatly diminished over the past fifty years, especially in the world of activism, it has not disappeared. Again […]
Pen to Paper
Pen to paper, fingers to keyboard, my need to write is innate. When I was ten years old my mother gave me a beautiful red diary with a small gold lock. To me, it was quite magical. I kept it in my drawer and began to write in it most days. When it was full, […]
Family Matters and Writing
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” — Leo Tolstoy in Anna Karenina I’m not sure that I agree with Tolstoy’s observation that all happy families are alike. After all, each person is a unique soul with her own viewpoint. A person in a happy family may have […]
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger!
It was the wise old philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who came up with the plum that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger and it does seem that he had a point. Whilst huge traumas can be psychologically damaging, the smaller hiccups can actually make us more resilient. In other words, a bit of misery […]
BEING AGENTED IRL – Part One
A Twenty-Five-Question Interview Published as a Five Part Series | 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 ONE Why did you choose the traditional publishing track? Abha: Because I […]
In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons from 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules
When I began writing In Praise of Difficult Women in 2014, I had no idea that it would publish during a time when women, by and large, had had enough. Writing and publishing books continues to be the occupation of the tortoise living in the era of hares on speed. Who knew time would be […]
Tapping the Experts: How to Enrich Your Research and Your Writing
Books are great, the Internet can’t be beat for looking up and verifying facts quickly, and libraries are awesome. When I’m researching a novel, one of my favorite places to spend an afternoon is in the dusty, musty, bookish-smelling stacks of a university library. With my list of sources arranged in alphabetical order by call […]
The Search for Shadow Ranch
I blame my lust for the lawless West on Nancy Drew and The Secret of Shadow Ranch by the magnificent author Carolyn Keene. When exotic Nancy took off for a vacation at the Arizona ranch with her pals Bess and George a young Kris Radish, growing up across the street from a Wisconsin cornfield, all […]
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