Category: Contemporary Women Writers
How Conversations Inspire Writing
By Kelly Ohlert, author of To Get To The Other Side One gorgeous sunny day, I took a walk on my lunch break. Thanks to my incredibly low attention span, or rather, the low attention span of humans in general these days (thanks technology), I of course couldn’t just walk and enjoy the sunshine. I […]
On Writing Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A-Z of Literary Persuasion
How do you sum up a whole book in a few words? Your book is nearly ready to enter the world. You’ve got a title, a cover, even some endorsements. Then, something you’d almost forgotten rears its head: the jacket copy (or, as we call it in Britain, the blurb). It’s often an afterthought in […]
EDITING TIPS FROM A FREELANCE EDITOR By Libby Sternberg
EDITING TIPS FROM A FREELANCE EDITOR By Libby Sternberg For many years, I’ve been a freelance editor at a major publishing house, editing romance novels and women’s fiction books. I started as a copy editor, checking for grammar, usage, and style, but now I’m a line—or developmental—editor, which means I check manuscripts for characterization, consistency, […]
How to Start a Podcast and Magazine Without Really Trying
How to Start a Podcast and Magazine Without Really Trying Also Known As It Was the Best of Times, It Was The Worst of Times By Deb Hunter During the Covid lockdown of 2020, many of us turned to the Clubhouse app. Maybe we simply wanted to hear the voices of others, share our mutual […]
Amy Beashel: My Writing Journey
In 2016, I wrote my first book for young adults, a novel which secured me both an agent and – surprisingly – a world record. When I realised my protagonist would attempt to become the fastest woman in the world on a space hopper, I realised too that research was key. And so… I went […]
HOW A LUDDITE LEARNED TO LOVE INSTAGRAM
Until last October, I had never texted a photo. I used my Instagram account only to follow family updates. I still can’t access a QR code via my phone to save my life. (Literally: When I went for a Covid test in February, the annoyed clinic staffer finally had to click on the code and […]
The Granny Who Stands on her Head: Reflections on Growing Older
The Granny Who Stands on her Head: Reflections on Growing Older The first sentence of The Granny Who Stands on her Head is “Somewhere in the middle of my seventies, I realised that I liked being old”. That is why I wrote the book – and not surprisingly, what the book is about. Let me […]
Liz Flaherty: On Author Friendship
Years and years ago, I wrote a fangirl letter to Harlequin author Muriel Jensen. I sent her a blank stamped envelope in case she cared to respond. If she didn’t have time to answer or if she just didn’t want to, I wanted her to feel free to pay her light bill with the envelope. […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Fatima R. Henson Interviews Ayanna Grace
Authors Interviewing Characters: Fatima R. Henson Interviews Ayanna Grace LOVE IN THE AGE OF DRAGONS Two years ago, a wormhole opened and ushered vicious dragons into the world. The dragons burned Earth’s cities to the ground and sent its inhabitants scattering for cover; and since then, Ayanna Grace, a seventeen-year-old Black girl, has been scratching […]
Reading With Rochelle Weinstein: October
Hello Readers & Friends, WHAT A MONTH FOR BOOKS! Fall is my favorite time of the year, and there’s nothing like falling into some fantastic reads. We’ve got our favorite NYTimes Bestseller back for a propulsive page-turner, a violin story—yes, I was hesitant about this one, but WOW—a fire, family, friendship, engagements, other entanglements, and […]
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