Category: Contemporary Women Writers
A Writing Life: Ronna Wineberg
A Writing Life I’m a fiction writer and sometimes I’m asked about my writing life. The question has caused me to think about my writing process and what a writing life entails. My writing life consists of different parts: writing, submitting work, creating books, publicizing a new book, giving readings, building community, and reading literature. […]
Down the Rabbit Hole for The Emerald Necklace by Linda Rosen
Down the Rabbit Hole for The Emerald Necklace by Linda Rosen Several years ago, I was at a party at a historic house in Delray Beach, Florida. It’s nooks and crannies, narrow hallways, and cozy rooms called to me. I wasn’t sure how I was going to use the two-story home, built in 1923, in […]
From Pantser to Planner
A writerly evolution by Gillian Harvey Like many writers, I have always been in a hurry to get words to paper. An idea will come to me and I’ll need to rush to the nearest post-it post-haste. Until recently, when writing novels, if the muse took over, I had no time to make plans, create […]
Writing Likeable, but Difficult, Characters
Writing Likeable, but Difficult, Characters Emma Barry We’ve all seen the reviews that say, “The protagonist wasn’t likeable. Two stars.” But what does it mean for a character to be likeable? For me, it’s rooted in relatability. If a character is too perfect, they will likely feel aspirational. I might want to be them, but […]
Cold Cases and the Burning Need to Know by Stephanie Kane
Cold Cases and the Burning Need to Know Stephanie Kane Does Kyle Clinkscales ring a bell? Probably not. In 1976, Kyle, a 22-year-old sophomore at Auburn University, disappeared. His parents’ search was all consuming. They followed leads from New Orleans to Hawaii. Whenever they left the house, they’d leave a note and spare car key […]
Poems by Rachel Harty From her upcoming book, Coffee, a Sip of You and Me
Poems by Rachel Harty From her upcoming book, Coffee, a Sip of You and Me Rachel Harty is the coffee poet, a girl who is nothing short of caffeine. As a six-year-old, she often would be found stealing coffee from her parents, and as you might have guessed, she quickly became fascinated by caffeine. Much […]
The Geography of First Kisses: Excerpt
In The Geography of First Kisses, one finds portrayals of quiet elegance reminiscent of early-20th-century art films. The fourteen ethereal stories are tethered to the bays and backwaters of southern Louisiana, the fields of Iowa and Oklahoma, the pine woods of Florida, places where girls and women seek love and belonging, and instead discover relationships as […]
My Writing Process by Rebecca Heath
by Rebecca Heath One thing I love almost as much as reading a wonderful book and travelling along that journey with the author, is to read about how that book came to be. There is something so interesting about reading another author’s writing process, like seeing behind the curtain of a magic trick for a […]
Isabella de Medici: In Her Words, She Tells the Truth of How she Died
Isabella de Medici: In her words, she tells the truth of how she died. By Melissa Muldoon, author of “Waking Isabella, because beauty can’t sleep forever” Image Credit: Melissa Muldoon original illustration of Isabella de Medici Greetings, my dear friends. My name is Isabella de’ Medici, but many called me the Star of Florence! I […]
My Writing Journey by Hope Gibbs
My Writing Journey… By Hope Gibbs As a debut novelist at the age of fifty-one who had absolutely no experience before I produced a 95,000-word manuscript, I’m often asked a question. “Was it a dream of yours to become a writer?” and I reply, “Yes, since I was a little girl.” But it wasn’t books […]
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