Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Don’t Forget to be Brave
Don’t Forget to be Brave Carmen Amato Scorpions loved our house in Central America. Tails curled with spiky malice and clad in brown armor, they made soft rustling sounds as they scuttled along the tile floor in search of shoes and draperies and other unexpected hiding places. Our housekeeper, whom I’ll call Doris, called my […]
Cheers to Women’s History Month with MADAME POMMERY, Creator of Brut Champagne
Cheers to Women’s History Month with MADAME POMMERY, Creator of Brut Champagne By Rebecca Rosenberg, novelist Since March is Women’s History Month, I invite you to join me in celebrating all the female characters in literature who represent real women overcoming real challenges. Women who have helped us grow and progress in ways we can […]
Surviving the Long Haul: Negotiating the Challenges of Traditional Publication
Surviving the Long Haul: Negotiating the Challenges of Traditional Publication Someone I know converted traditional publication into a bingo as a joke, and posted it on our author group. It was for our amusement, but the laughs mostly came from the fact that all of us had been in one of those situations at some […]
The Writing on the Wall
The Writing on the Wall One writer’s off-road trek from tiny opus to published novel Some people know exactly what they want to be when they grow up. Not me. I wanted to be a jockey (too tall). A singer (stage fright and no musical aptitude). And an astronomer (let’s be real, the stars are […]
A Palm Reader, A Dream, And Standing Naked
On a whim, I’d hired a palm reader as part of the evening’s joint birthday celebration for my husband and me. When she arrived, prim as a Midwest librarian, I lead her to the quiet seclusion of my bedroom which afforded her privacy. A line quickly formed outside the room. Barbie waited next to Lou […]
Edwardian Con Women by Laura Lee
Edwardian Con Women Laura Lee About ten years ago, while researching a book on Oscar Wilde, I stumbled upon the story of Maurice Schwabe, a member of the Wilde circle who went on to lead an extraordinary life of crime as part of a band of gentleman con artists who traveled the world cheating at […]
Libraries are Training Grounds for Writers by Kimberly G. Giarratano
Libraries are training grounds for writers by Kimberly G. Giarratano My publishing journey started alongside my librarian career. After five years of teaching in New Jersey public schools, I was burnt out. I loved my students, but hated the politics, so I got a master’s degree in library science, thinking I’d work in an archive […]
Writing When Hurt, Writing To Heal
Priscilla Paton It could have been the ideal conditions for writing non-stop: no running of errands with necessities delivered to the door, no interruption by visitors, no annoying events, simply solitude at home. For me and many others, however, the COVID pandemic shutdown didn’t work out that way. It was like a bad first draft […]
The Inspiration Behind A Dangerous Education, by Megan Chance
The Inspiration Behind A Dangerous Education, by Megan Chance Ideas have always come easily to me. I get them from everywhere: movies, the news, television, music, other books, research … really, they fly at me endlessly. What isn’t so easy is finding an idea that sticks, or that is big enough to hold its own […]
Publishing Journey: Of School and Women
I surprised myself by publishing a book. And at my age I didn’t think I had any surprises left. Of School and Women was born from my days as an undergrad and bartender. It’s woven together with my infatuation with the clarity of truth in hindsight, mixed in with nostalgia and blended with a dreamy […]
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