Category: Contemporary Women Writers
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 […]
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 […]
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