Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Rebounding from Rejection: A How-To Guide To Survive the Emotional Turmoil That Is the Writing Business
Rebounding from Rejection: A How-To Guide To Survive the Emotional Turmoil That Is the Writing Business By Jen Braaksma Rejection sucks. It’s a given in writing, of course. Everyone—even the most famous among us—has had their brilliant work rejected by agents and publishers. Stephen King’s Carrie was rejected more than 30 times. Agatha Christie couldn’t […]
Sarah J. Makowski: On Language and Writing
Since childhood, I’d dreamed of living in England, the birthplace of my literary heroes. I’d walk through Bath arm-in-arm with Anne Elliot. I’d run into the Pevensie kids on the train to London. Like Bridget Jones, I’d get a publishing job, commuting daily from my thatched Tudor cottage nestled inside a secret garden. Who knows? […]
Writing Midlife Emergence: Free Your Inner Fire
Midlife Emergence: Free Your Inner Fire By: Jen Berlingo, MA, LPC, ATR After two decades of guiding my psychotherapy and coaching clients through life’s major transitions, I experienced my own profoundly transformative passage in my early forties. At the time, I heard an inner call I could not deny, asking me to live more fully […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Emily Franklin interviews Isabella Stewart Gardner
Isabella Stewart Gardner, was a daring visionary who created an inimitable legacy in American art and transformed the city of Boston itself. In the new novel, THE LIONESS OF BOSTON (April 11, 2023, Godine), Emily Franklin paints a portrait of a courageous soul who shattered society’s expectations, living life on her own terms. By the time Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her home as […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Marcia Bradley, The Home for Wayward Girls
About THE HOME FOR WAYWARD GIRLS Growing up in the 1990s, Loretta escapes her abusive parents–and the “ranch” they run for “bad” girls—eventually becoming an advocate for teen runaways and a foe of today’s Troubled Teen Industry where teens are sent to programs in isolated locales and wilderness camps. This heartfelt novel offers hope despite […]
MUSCLE MEMORY: Essay by Claudia Hinz
My mother hobbles into the kitchen. Her gait is a wide, see-sawing lurch, reminiscent of my children as toddlers who barreled headlong into everything. I watch helplessly, certain this is the moment she crashes into a table or snags the edge of a rug and hits the ground. This morning, her flannel nightgown is crusted […]
On Writing MY LOVE NIKOLA TESLA
By Ana Atanaskovic One of the happy endings of my writing journey is publishing my novel MY LOVE NIKOLA TESLA in America, the country where the story takes place. And it happened in November last year. But I would like to start from the beginning. As a young girl, I was greatly inspired by my father. […]
Book Promotion Tips From a Publicist Turned Writer
I’m a writer but I also walk through life with a publicist’s eye. I’ve worked in PR and social media for more than twenty five years and with my debut thriller out in May 2023, I’m taking an even keener look at how authors promote their work. There’s a lot to learn and book publishing […]
The Adventure Indeed Continues
Two years ago, I had written http://booksbywomen.org/the-adventure-continues/ and the adventure indeed continues, but with a different emphasis. When a non-writing friend tried to pigeonhole what I was doing as a “hobby” I started pondering why I was so into writing. It was not to make money, or even a living – the day jobs had […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Patricia Leavy, author of Hollyland
Authors Interviewing Characters: Patricia Leavy, author of Hollyland “. . . Leavy weaves a lot of excitement, charm, and romance into this concise and highly engrossing novel . . . I would not hesitate to recommend Hollyland to fans of romance and women’s fiction everywhere; you will not be disappointed.” —Readers’ Favorite, 5-star review “… a spellbinding […]
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