Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Music And Manuscripts: Why I Couldn’t Have Written My Bestseller Without A Soundtrack
“Music thudded through Amy’s body and seized her heart,” My debut novel Try Not to Breathe begins. “Music so loud that her eardrums pounded in frenzy and her baby bird ribs rattled. Music was everything. Well, almost everything.” The word music appears three times in the first 30 words, and with good reason. It’s at […]
Blue Door Press – An Innovative, Writer-led, Solution To Publishing
The idea for the press grew out of a group of published women writers – of both prose and poetry – who have been meeting for more than ten years. The group’s mostly based in London and the idea for the press started from conversations we’ve shared about publishing – exchanging ideas on how that […]
Writing Advice: How Fellow Writers Can Help You Get Published
Like the great cats, or giant pandas we labor alone at our craft, at least most of the time. Oh, we may venture out occasionally to find a mate as do the majestic beasts, but we have no colleagues with whom to shmooze, to bounce off ideas, or to complain about the frustrations of publishing. […]
Q & A with Grace Bonney
Grace Bonney is the author of IN THE COMPANY OF WOMEN: INSPIRATION AND ADVICE FROM OVER 100 MAKERS, ARTISTS, AND ENTREPRENEURS (Artisan, 2016) and the founder of design blog Design*Sponge. Her first book, DESIGN*SPONGE AT HOME, became a national bestseller. The New York Times called D*S called “Martha Stewart Living for the Millennials.” The site reaches […]
Q&A with Caroline Leavitt
Caroline Leavitt is the American novelist who penned CRUEL BEAUTIFUL WORLD (Algonquin 2016), already on two Book Club Lists and an Indie Next Pick and praised by Marie Claire, Pop Sugar, Shelf Awareness, Minneapolis Star Tribune, New York Newsday, NPR’s Weekend Edition and more. Caroline is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author […]
Ripped From The Headlines
Lis Wiehl, author of The Candidate: A Newsmaker Novel is the New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen novels. She is currently a popular legal analyst and commentator for the Fox News Channel. Perhaps no decision is as important to a writer as picking the right story to tell. You can’t commit to a novel unless the […]
Q&A with Abda Khan
Abda Khan was born in inner city Bradford, England. She was the seventh of eight children to Pakistani immigrant parents, and the first of their children to be born in the UK. She is an attorney, who after working as a Solicitor for a criminal law firm, set up her own law practice after she […]
Shouting From The Rooftops: Self Promo
Way back in the mists of time (2000) at the instigation of author Margaret Murphy I was one of seven northern crime writers who clubbed together to launch Murder Squad. We created a website, produced a brochure and were soon appearing at libraries and festivals throughout the country to promote our work. The impetus for […]
How to Write about Something You Know Nothing About
I recently began taking piano lessons as an adult, and I can now tell you this for certain: I am no musician. On the first day, when I told my piano teacher that I wanted to learn to play ragtime, she said: “Why does everyone always want to tackle the hardest music first?” I didn’t […]
Lessons Learned From The Brooklyn Book Festival
Never having been a vendor at a book festival, I jumped at the chance to share a booth at the Brooklyn Book Festival with two other She Writes Press authors, Sande Boritz Berger, author of The Sweetness, A Novel and Liz Gelb O’Connor, author of The Angelorum Chronicles and Caught Up in Raine—romantic women’s fiction. […]
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