Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Authors Interviewing Characters: Anju Gattani interviews RAKESH from DYNASTIES
Anju Gattani interviews Rakesh from DYNASTIES “An enticing Downton Abbey-style saga, but set in India!” Barbara Bos, Managing Editor www.booksbywomen.org About DYNASTIES Sheetal Prasad, a glamorous, twenty-two-year-old oil painter, is the envy of Raigun, India. Her homeland, now modern and global, at last allows women to marry for love, and Sheetal is determined to wed […]
Finding My Footing as a Career-Books Author
Finding My Footing as a Career-Books Author By Vicky Oliver I always dreamed of being a writer. The issue was, I could not afford to be one. My mother and stepfather told me that I couldn’t, and I believed them. They urged me to try to get a job where I would be paid to […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Fran Hawthorne
FRAN HAWTHORNE interviews MIRANDA ISAACS from her novel I MEANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE BOOK: When Miranda Isaacs’s fiancé, Russ Steinmann, is being vetted for his dream job in the U.S. attorney’s office, the couple joke about whether Miranda’s parents’ history as antiwar activists in the Sixties might jeopardize Russ’s security clearance. But as […]
The Origin Story: Untangling Your Marriage, A Guide to Collaborative Divorce, by Nanci A. Smith
The Origin Story: Untangling Your Marriage, A Guide to Collaborative Divorce, by Nanci A. Smith I love to write. I also love helping people through their divorce process. In 2005, I was introduced to the concept of Collaborative Divorce, an interdisciplinary, voluntary, out of court divorce settlement process. I was attracted to the concept of […]
A WRITERLY ADVENTURE By Rachel Dacus
A WRITERLY ADVENTURE By Rachel Dacus Writers are always seeking time and space in which to create. We go to writers’ retreats to step away from our routines, but the last place I expected to gain time and inspiration was in a hospital bed. One day, while I was talking to a friend, the left […]
On Writing “Choosing Survival: How I Endured a Brutal Attack and a Lifetime of Trauma through the Power of Action, Choice, and Self-Expression.”
On Writing “Choosing Survival: How I Endured a Brutal Attack and a Lifetime of Trauma through the Power of Action, Choice, and Self-Expression.” By Lynn F Forney We all have a story to tell, for that I am certain. Mine began as a somewhat flippant comment when I would start to explain the details of […]
On Witnessing a Natural Phenomenon and Calling Myself a Writer
On Witnessing a Natural Phenomenon and Calling Myself a Writer I grew up in Mobile, Alabama, where during the summers my family swam in Mobile Bay’s latte-colored water. The bay and its watershed, now referred to by some as “North America’s Amazon,” was to me as a child as fraught with dangers as the actual […]
The Inspiration for Simply Be More
The Inspiration For Simply Be More Overnight in March 2020, all my work as a headline flautist was cancelled. For the first time in my entire career, my diary, normally packed full of wonderful concerts was completely clear. I knew this was a reset button. I could just sense that the world would never be […]
Tips for Excellent Twists
Tips for Excellent Twists As readers, we crave that jaw-dropping feeling that leaves us slightly stunned, with the book open in our lap as we process the unexpected. Wouldn’t it be great if writing twists were as easy and enjoyable as reading them? To understand what makes an effective plot twist, you have to know […]
On Writing The Girl
Since I left my corporate job in 2019 to pursue my writing dreams, a term has cropped up again and again that has always irked me when I’ve had to describe some of my short stories: the “unlikeable female character.” I know it started as a term to describe a female character who went against […]
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