Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Authors Interviewing Characters: Kathryn Crawley
Walking on Fire is a loss-of-innocence, coming-of-age love story set in Greece in 1974, following the fall of the seven-year Greek dictatorship. Kate is dropped into a boiling cauldron of anti-Americanism as she has been hired as a speech pathologist in a center for Greek cerebral palsied children. She falls in love with the Greek […]
My Writing Journey by KD Sherrinford
KD Sherrinford- My writing journey. A voracious reader from an early age. I became fascinated by the works of Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I read the entire Sherlock Holmes Canon by the time I was 13. I was a shy, introverted child; always found in the library with my head in a […]
Compassionate Caregiving and Writing By Suzanne Marriott
Compassionate Caregiving and Writing By Suzanne Marriott Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries, without them humanity cannot survive. Dalai Lama XIV I remember the moment I realized I was going to be my husband’s caregiver forever. I knew Michael had multiple sclerosis, and I knew this would be a progressive disease. Yet, knowing something […]
Writing The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy—A Family Memoir of Scandal and Greed in the Meat Industry
The genesis for my new book, The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy—A Family Memoir of Scandal and Greed in the Meat Industry came from listening to my father’s epic stories of his childhood in Austin, Minnesota. No snowstorm out there was less than five feet deep. The Cedar River which ran by his […]
How Self-Kindness Set My Creativity Free
How Self-Kindness Set My Creativity Free by Martha Engber I never knew the crippling burden of being unkind to myself until two years ago when I was 56. I’d just completed my forthcoming memoir, Bliss Road, about being the non-autistic daughter of an undiagnosed Autism Spectrum Disorder dad. I’d spent the previous eight years wading […]
My Pathway to Self-Publishing by Marisa Jones
My Pathway to Self-Publishing by Marisa Jones It’s hard to believe I’m a published author. This week, my debut historical novel, A Dangerous Land, has been released to the world. What a surreal feeling. Something I never thought would come to pass. It certainly wasn’t an easy road to get here. For two years I […]
Reading With Rochelle Weinstein: May Round-Up
Hello Readers & Friends, Summer is officially here, and these are the books I’ve been reading as well as two that are going inside my beach bag. Do you have any plans to get away? We’re flying to NYC this Saturday to watch our son run his very first half marathon. Then we’re off to […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Livy Hart
Planes, Trains, And All the Feels Fans of Christina Lauren and Tessa Bailey will adore this witty and unforgettable rom-com about skyways, highways, and all the perfectly wrong ways to fall in love. As the black sheep of the family, choreographer Cassidy Bliss vowed she’d do anything to get home in time to help with […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: JJ Cook & AL Cook
JJ Cook & AL Cook, MD in conversation with Ophelia Sasaki: The Percivious Trilogy, Author/Character Interview About PERCIVIOUS: Every day, society seems to step closer and closer to becoming a world straight out of a dystopian novel. Throughout the series, the Percivious trilogy has pushed against this path by showing the world a more utopian […]
Keep Writing Until They Are Forced to Say Yes
Keep Writing Until They Are Forced to Say Yes I got a late start as a writer. I was an avid reader, sure, but write a book? Never crossed my mind until I was in my 50s and had a story to tell. I’d never so much as taken a writing class, but one frozen […]
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