Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Writing The Happy Kitchen
Ever since my last major depressive episode just over a decade ago, I’ve sought to embrace a holistic attitude to my own mental health. For me it’s been a case of both ‘push’ and ‘pull’. ‘Push’, in the sense that, like many others, I’ve experienced some of the debilitating side-effects of antidepressant medication. These include […]
The Story Behind the Story
My name is Victoria and I wrote a book with a taxi cab driver I met at an all-night diner. It was March 7th, 1994 at an all-night Greek diner called The Silver Star at 65th and Second Ave. in NYC around 1 a.m. I had just seen Schindler’s List and was craving bourbon – Maker’s Mark […]
The Midwife as Story Teller
Call the Midwife, the British television series is seen world- wide and has become popular in the United States. People who’d barely heard of midwives or thought they were old ladies who came to your log cabin back in the 1700s have become interested, even fascinated by the subject. Most people don’t know that the […]
Preserving Her Stories
Originally years ago, all I wanted to do was write books. My design changed one day in the mid-1990s when I realized the extent of stereotyping that exists in the West regarding the Middle East in general and the women of that region in particular. I was on transit at Heathrow Airport, on my way […]
Journaling Power Heals The Writer’s Soul
Before I started on my incredible healing journey, I was a left-brained businesswoman and I treated myself as if I was a machine. My approach to life was strictly practical, logical, and rational. I drove my body day and night as if it was an automobile, with my foot hard on the accelerator. I also […]
Treasuring Memories
However you define the term ‘historical novel’, there can be few things more daunting than being asked to write about events which you yourself don’t remember, but which other people do. This was the position I was put in when I was commissioned to write a series of novels set during the Second World War. […]
How TV and Film Influence My Writing
‘How do we begin to covet, Clarice? Do we seek out things to covet? No, we begin by coveting what we see every day. Don’t you feel eyes moving over you, Clarice? And don’t your eyes seek out the thing you want?’ For a generation of film lovers those words were etched into our brains […]
Q&A with Brunonia Barry
Brunonia Barry is the New York Times and international bestselling author of THE LACE READER (first self-published then picked up by William Morrow 2008) and THE MAP OF TRUE PLACES (William Morrow 2010) and her newest THE FIFTH PETAL (Crown 2017)! Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She was the first […]
Dreams: Not Only For The Young
Well, I’ve done it. I fulfilled a lifelong dream. My first novel, Hostile Takeover: A Love Story just published. It took me a number of decades to get around to doing it as life and work got in the way. In fact, it took so many decades that the book comes out the same year I […]
The Creativity Trinity – Truth|Empathy|Hope
The most beneficial thing for me about living in an all-women’s residence hall in college was the sharing: I’ve never done that either! / Yeah, I did that too. Facepalm. / That happened to me too! I’d thought I was the only one. I’ve witnessed the same experiences at writers’ conferences and retreats and in […]
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