Category: Contemporary Women Writers
The Memoir I Did Not Plan to Write
The best memoirs read like novels with their shaped plots and fully developed characters, yet the experience of reading a memoir can have a compelling power that fiction does not always match. The knowledge that the story we are reading is true and the immediacy of the author’s voice bring us into direct relation to […]
Invisible Women In The History Of Literature
As a child, I loved to write secrets in invisible ink. When I wrote words with orange juice, they could be read only in the heat of a candle flame. And that is how it felt when looking for women writers to balance the record during my research for A Biography of Story, A Brief […]
Interview with Smadar Herzfeld and Translator Aloma Halter
Smadar’s Herzfeld’s novel Trail of Miracles, translated by Aloma Halter, follows Gittel, a Ukrainian, Hasidic, Jewish woman as she makes a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage and discovers the unique gifts she brings to the world. The lyric beauty of Gittel’s voice will mesmerize readers into following her on her Trail of Miracles. Smadar, I am curious about […]
All The Best People: Interview with Sonja Yoerg
New York Times bestselling author, Chris Bohjalian, writes that Sonja Yoerg’s All the Best People contains “Not just the best people, but real people: authentic, quirky and troubled. I cared for them all.” I couldn’t have said it better. Yoerg immerses us in family in crisis; instead of looking away, we become invested in their […]
Here I Am
Here I am. Writing for you. It may come as a surprise, but not to me. I’ve been writing for you for twenty-plus years. You just never knew until this very moment. Let me explain. After work and supper and dishes and ball practice and bath and bedtime stories, I wrote. Turning my attention from […]
The Real (and Not Real) Arboria Park
Arboria Park was inspired by the place I grew up and lived in until I was twelve: Rodney Village, near Dover, Delaware. That’s my house on the cover of the book. The photo was taken in 1958, soon after we moved in (when I was two months old). The real house was gray, and my […]
Tackling Contemporary Social Issues in Fiction
In addition to page-turning entertainment, my novels take on ripped-from-the-headlines women’s issues. My first novel, Wolf: A Jessica James Mystery, deals with the timely issue of party rape on campus, while the second, Coyote takes on the human trafficking on Indian Reservations that comes along with hydraulic fracturing (Fracking). And the third, F.O.X. features […]
If I’m Neuro-Typical, Can I Write About the Neuro-Diverse?
In 2003, Mark Haddon made a well-deserved splash with his first novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. It’s a coming-of-age tale posing as a mystery, narrated by Christopher Boone, a 15-year-old with Asperger’s Syndrome. It was a break-through book, one that introduced people on the autism spectrum, especially the autistic savant, to […]
A Tale of Two Trilogies
One evening in 2009 a writing trigger was pulled in my mind; I sat in front of my computer and poured out a story of high adventure set in the present in an alternative new Rome, but with a twist. It included a hunky hero, but the story was driven by a young woman who transformed from a prickly […]
Who Needs a Therapist When You Can Write it all Away?
It’s an incredible process, writing. There you are typing away and someone, seemingly out of nowhere, pops up on the page. A name, a character… becoming more realised with every tap of your finger. As a writer, you are never quite sure what or who is going to appear, a distant memory, a story someone […]
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