Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Memoir Can Be a Time Capsule by Sharon Dukett
I spent many years writing a memoir. Back when I started in the 1980s, I didn’t even know what to call it. I wrote several chapters on lined paper in cursive because I didn’t own a computer yet. I had a typewriter, but based on my typing skills, I would never complete a book unless […]
10 Facts About Aloha Wanderwell by Laurel Corona
I first stumbled across Aloha Wanderwell in a thin book about interesting women in Vancouver Island history. Leafing through, I stopped on the name “Aloha Wanderwell,” because with a singular name like that, who wouldn’t? I was intrigued by the story of a fearless teenager who set out to conquer the world by car long […]
4 Janes: A Novel by Marian Yee: Excerpt
4 Janes Through time, space, and the transcendence of maternal love, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is reimagined in the parallel lives of one soul searching for meaning, connection, and a place to belong. Jane Eyre is a missionary’s wife. A bookseller in Vietnam. A time traveler. A hero in a modern gothic tale. What if Jane’s story […]
The Inspiration behind Back to the Cape by Judy Lannon
I never thought I would write one book, let alone three books and then a sequel, but sometimes life pushes you beyond your own expectations. The pull to take on another book was inspired by book number three, Callahan’s Cottage. Back to the Cape, which was launched on May 25, 2026, is the sequel to […]
Recommended Reads July
THE HOUSE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET, Jennifer Sklias-Gahan In The House in the Middle of the Street, Jennifer Sklias-Gahan conjures a haunting modern fairy tale of inheritance, secrets, and the creatures we invite into our lives. When Rebecca and her husband inherit a stately old home, they imagine it as the perfect place to […]
Why Fantasy Can Reveal Human Truths by Alison Levy
How does fantasy reveal human truths? It might seem counterintuitive to look for truth in a genre dependent on magic and the supernatural but fantasy lovers know better. Fantasy weaves tales of impossibility but this is just a means to explore the human condition. Realistic fiction might contain truth, but fantasy allows us to experience […]
When Reality Keeps Rewriting Your Fiction By Denise Fletcher
There’s a difficult balancing act in writing contemporary political crime fiction. The story must feel believable, but only just. The stakes need to sit right at the fringes of credibility without ever tipping over into the fanciful. The highs must be high. The lows low. The corruption must feel uncomfortable to read. And all the […]
My Writing Journey by Ellen Baker
I loved the feel of a pen gliding on paper as a kid. My mom, an English teacher, would bring me red and blue Papermate ballpoints from work. I was so driven to write that, at seven, after falling off my bike and breaking my right wrist, I scrawled out a messy story about it […]
June Recommended Reads
THE HOUSE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET, Jennifer Sklias-Gahan In The House in the Middle of the Street, Jennifer Sklias-Gahan conjures a haunting modern fairy tale of inheritance, secrets, and the creatures we invite into our lives. When Rebecca and her husband inherit a stately old home, they imagine it as the perfect place to […]
Understanding the Black Middle-Class—from Childhood Seeds to Sustained Sociological Inquiry By Angela Simms
I grew up in a middle-class Black family in the 1980s and 90s. My dad, Everitt, and my mom, Joan, raised me and my brother, Joshua, in Prince William County, Virginia, a suburb in the DMV, as we locals say (the DC, Maryland, and Virginia Metropolitan Area). As such, my sociological intuition regarding race and […]
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