Category: Contemporary Women Writers
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 […]
Confessions of a Late Bloomer
Confessions of a late bloomer My name is Josephine Strand and I’m the author of my first published romance novel, Misty Dreams, released in April 2021. I’m what is known as a literary late bloomer. Three years ago, I was a soon-to-be novelist past the age of sixty, and utterly unprepared for the work that […]
When Empathy Gets in the Way By L.S. Stratton
When Empathy Gets in the Way By L.S. Stratton I’d only been covering her case for three days, and I was already having nightmares. She was fifteen when she was murdered. According to her friends, she was well liked though not particularly outgoing. She’d given a shy smile at the camera in her high school […]
How my Apparel Sales Career led to a Writing gig
I had always envisioned a career as a journalist, but life had other plans. Right after my college graduation, our family had an emergency while my apparel sales rep dad was at a trade show in Atlanta. When no one from his companies could cover for him so he could attend to the emergency, dad […]
Michelle Cruz: On Writing
If I’m honest, it’s Tom Clancy and John Grisham’s faults. Although they weren’t exactly approved authors in my ultra-conservative upbringing, at least they weren’t forbidden. But there were few women, and—especially in Tom Clancy’s case—they were tangential to the plot, barely mentioned, and often more of a footnote. So in all the audacity of my […]
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