Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Excerpt from Secret Lives of Royal Women: Fascinating Biographies of Queens, Princesses, Duchesses, and other Regal Women
Excerpt from Despite their differences, romance blossomed: Philip’s terms of endearment for Elizabeth were Lilibet, Sausage, or Darling. The prince proposed, and the twenty-year-old princess accepted without consulting mum and dad. During their 1947 wedding, the crowned heads of Europe and the world’s most powerful politicians were in attendance. Those not invited to the Westminster […]
On Writing HARDLAND: Ashley Sweeney
How did the novel come about? Who would have ever thought that in the spring of 2020, we’d be locked down for more than a year due to COVID-19? At the time of the initial lockdown, I was two years and 85,000 words into what I thought would be my third novel, a dual narrative […]
Writing LOVE AT WAR by Sandra Howard
Love at War Writing novels opens doors. You meet people and learn so much from all the research, you have offers to write articles and are asked for quotes, but of the many thrills that come from writing novels the most exciting is the journey you take with your characters. I was once lucky enough […]
The Inspiration Behind The Secret of Elephants by Vasundra Tailor
The idea for my novel came from a visit to India in 2016. I took a walk to Golwad Street in Navsari to see the mansion that used to belong to my father. He had built it in 1954 and was immensely proud of it. The building was still there, but after 62 years, it […]
Denise Hunter: On Writing Inspiration
The question I’m asked most often is where I get ideas for my stories. The seed for the Riverbend Romance series was planted when I was in Georgia, researching the Blue Ridge series. Quite by accident, I discovered that the Appalachian Trail started in a nearby town, so I decided to check it out. From […]
Lexie Elliott Interviews Melissa Kateb from HOW TO KILL YOUR BEST FRIEND
About HOW TO KILL YOUR BEST FRIEND If you suspected your best friend, the person you were closest to in the whole world, was a murderer, what would you do? Would you confront her? Would you help keep her secret? Or would you begin to feel afraid? Most importantly, why don’t you feel safe now […]
Angels in YA: How the Classic Tropes stay new and Exciting
by Jen Braaksma I truly believe stories are a collaboration of the imagination. I write and readers read, but there wouldn’t be a story without one or the other. We all come up with our own interpretation of a story based on our own identities and experiences, and it’s those differences that I love. It’s […]
UpLit – Stories to Save Us!
By Faith Hogan For as long as I can remember, we’ve been told – you are what you eat. Really? Because, as a voracious reader, like most of us here, probably, I have a feeling it’s far more likely that we are what we read! Who hasn’t devoured books like The Secret and read about the […]
Expanding Your Author Life – A Case Study: PART ONE
PART I: Expanding Your Author Life – A Case Study by Grace Sammon Two authors, who do not know of each other, launch their new books at the height of the pandemic. Both are women, one is mid-40s, one is mid-60s. The elder woman (gosh that’s tough to write), we will call her “G,” has […]
Reasons to Hurry Up with that First Draft
Reasons to Hurry Up with that First Draft By Lynn Sloan Writing a novel takes time. Between writing the opening line on the first draft to typing END on its last page, months and usually years have elapsed. For most of us writers, planners or pants-ers and those in between, the first draft involves false […]
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