Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Was It Worth It? A Journey of Leaving, Losing and Becoming by Maryam Rafiee
As a teenager, I dreamed of becoming a cycling champion, but there was no women’s team at the time. Cycling in public was also forbidden for women. I cycled through the streets of Tehran wearing loose jogging clothes and a cap, trying to look like a boy so I would not be stopped by the morality […]
It’s a Dog’s Life by Leslie Kain
I hadn’t had a dog in my life since Maddie, the golden retriever that grew up with my kids. But after my husband and I recently said goodbye to our eighteen-year-old cat Sheba (who’d become blind, and sat beside me in my writing chair, often walking on my keyboard), it was time to again welcome […]
Remembering 9/11 By Caroline Bock, Author of The Other Beautiful People
This year, tomorrow, 9/11, falls on a Friday. For me, 9/11 will always be a Tuesday. Twenty-five years ago, I woke up early after a sleepless night. I had a big day. Bravo cable network was holding a press conference at a swanky hotel downtown for our first reality series – The It Factor, and […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Melissa Payne
IN THIS LIFE OR ANOTHER On the brink of death, a man comes to terms with the life he lived versus the one he never pursued in an emotionally rich novel of parallel lives, redemption, and finding purpose. On the eve of his sixtieth birthday, mechanic Rusty Wilson takes a bullet to save the patrons […]
Recommended Reads September
In This Life Or Another, Melissa Payne On the brink of death, a man comes to terms with the life he lived versus the one he never pursued in an emotionally rich novel of parallel lives, redemption, and finding purpose. On the eve of his sixtieth birthday, mechanic Rusty Wilson takes a bullet to save […]
The Legacy, with Medusa by Sharon Linnéa
If only Bob was here. I looked at the brown box sitting on the kitchen table, on a yellow and blue tablecloth decked with sunflowers. If only he could see this. I used a steak knife to slice the packing tape. Inside sat a stack of beautiful books, topped by a medallion of a Medusa […]
How ILLEGITIMATE Took Seven Revisions and Ten Years to get Published by Maddie Lock
I didn’t start out to write a memoir. It was in a small café in Bavaria that my German aunt lifted a glass of wine to her lips and casually stated that she had found her father; that our grandfather, who we thought was her father was not. She was, in fact, a child created […]
The Castle in the Glen, by Rhys Bowen: Excerpt
THE CASTLE IN THE GLEN A ghostwriter plunges into danger as she unravels the dark secrets of a powerful Scottish family in a thrilling novel of romance and mystery by the bestselling author of Mrs. Endicott’s Splendid Adventure. Australian writer Emma Callander has been recruited to complete the final historical mystery in a series by celebrated […]
How Losing my Son in a Shopping Centre Inspired me to Write a Children’s Book By Gul Salih
There are moments in life that divide your world into a before and an after. For me, one of those moments happened in a busy shopping centre and lasted only a few minutes, yet it felt like a lifetime. I was shopping with my son and my mum. At one point, my son wanted to […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Shalini Abeysekara
From Shalini, the USA TODAY bestselling author who marries magic with murder mysteries, comes a pulse-pounding legal thriller romantasy in a world inspired by Ancient Rome about a young woman seeking vengeance against the man who attempted to kill her four years prior by pushing her off a tower, and engaging in a game of […]
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