Category: Contemporary Women Writers
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 […]
Five Things I Wish I Knew Before Publishing By: Jenna Podjasek, MD
Five Things I Wish I Knew Before Publishing By: Jenna Podjasek, MD I’m a busy Allergist/Immunologist, wife, mom, and voracious reader, but the release of my debut medical thriller, Particles in the Air, thrust me (unprepared) into the publishing world. Read on for some high-value, practical advice I learned the hard way. You CANNOT take […]
“Denuding” Myself: A Path to Authenticity as a Woman
“Denuding” Myself A Path to Authenticity as a Woman You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. —William Faulkner I have been involved in writing/editing/publishing all my life. Also, I love a wide scope, being a dual national, US/Belgian. To write my memoir about my New York City days, I got the strong […]
On Writing I’ll Stop The World by Lauren Thoman
I get asked a lot what inspired me to write my debut novel, I’ll Stop the World. In the book, a modern teenager named Justin finds himself suddenly and inexplicably transported back to the year 1985, one week before the tragic deaths of his grandparents in a mysterious fire. The first person he meets in […]
REVIEW: INDIGO FIELD by Marjorie Hudson
Marjorie Hudson knows the “Land Between Two Rivers” intimately, as a writer, farmer, activist, teacher, and member of a small Southern community for three decades. This deep knowledge of people and place suffuses every page of her stunning debut novel, Indigo Field. In central North Carolina, where broad fields stretch out under the shadow of […]
A BRIEF CHRONICLE OF A WRITER’S NOT-SO-BRIEF JOURNEY by RANDALL PLATT
A BRIEF CHRONICLE OF A WRITER’S NOT-SO-BRIEF JOURNEY by RANDALL PLATT PROLOGUE FROM THEN TO NOW CHAPTER ONE Picture this: A little girl sits in the back of the classroom, scared to death she’ll be called upon to read out loud. She’s a slow reader with a speedy imagination but remains quiet most of the […]
Feeling Fraudulent: A Brown Woman Writes From a White Man’s Point of View
Feeling Fraudulent: A Brown Woman Writes From a White Man’s Point of View I’m a big fan of Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, Robert B. Parker’s Spenser, Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski, Kerry Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher and others. I’m also a big fan of Copenhagen, my adopted city where I lived for eleven years. So, I knew […]
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