Category: Contemporary Women Writers
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 […]
Pandemics Make Strange Bedfellows By Jean Copeland
Pandemics Make Strange Bedfellows By Jean Copeland “There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe, “The Masque of the Red Death” Among all the insanity happening in the world during […]
Tamarillas Press: Keeping it in the Family
I’m CJ Morrow and I’m the co-founder of Tamarillas Press. Who/what are we? A small family of authors who write under the imprint Tamarillas Press. We’re two sets of sisters, that’s me, my sister who writes as Marina Johnson/Joanne Ryan and my daughters Belle Henderson and Amelia Watchman. In 2013 I released my first book, […]
The Blogging Writer: Why Running A Successful Blog Benefits Every Writer
So maybe you’ve heard the dirty and unsettling news; survival as a writer these days depends on a platform. I used to shudder upon hearing those words. Like many beginning writers, I had a tendency towards introversion and the mere thought of putting myself, or my work, out into the world seemed very perilous. However, […]
Authors Interview Characters: Neely Tubati Alexander interviewing Serena Khan
About LOVE BUZZ A wretched maid of honor. A hangover from hell. Raucous Mardi Gras crowds. There isn’t much Serena Khan is enjoying about this four-day New Orleans destination bachelorette party for her semi-estranged cousin, the bride-to-be—until sparks fly with a handsome stranger, who, like her, is also from Seattle. After their conversation is cut […]
SETTING RESEARCH: WHEN YOU DIDN’T WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW
SETTING RESEARCH: WHEN YOU DIDN’T WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW A woman floats peacefully in a swimming pool at night, a spangled view of the city behind her. The image wouldn’t leave my head, and over time turned into a central scene in my debut romance novel, PAINTING CELIA. Naturally, my character needed a house with […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Meryl Ain
Interview with Bronka Lubinski from SHADOWS WE CARRY by Meryl Ain Meryl Ain, the author of Shadows We Carry, interviews Bronka Lubinski, the book’s protagonist. The novel explores the experience of navigating deeply held family secrets and bloodlines, confusing religious identities, and the scars of World War II in the wake of revolutionary societal changes. […]
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