Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Why Do Some Friendships End and Others Last? By Carol Dines
Why Do Some Friendships End and Others Last? By Carol Dines I don’t remember how it began, our daily walk. Two o’clock before the kids got off their busses. Sun, rain, snow, wind, we met at the corner midway between our houses. The lake was three miles around and took forty-five minutes. Every day we […]
Writing to Heal by Rebecca and Sallyann Majoya
Writing to Heal by Rebecca and Sallyann Majoya In our memoir, Uncertain Fruit: A Memoir of Infertility, Loss, and Love, we take turns describing our dream of having a baby together and the tumultuous ride to make that dream come true. After trying everything from foster care to fertility trials, and after nearly ten years […]
My Writing Process: Jeannée Sacken
Early on in my career as a photojournalist, I ventured into the Honduran mountains to document the life and work of a young Mayan mother. After a fruitless couple of hours, I called a break. Turning from the mother, I caught sight of her ten-year-old daughter, Suyapa, in the shadowy corner of their two-room, mud-brick […]
My Not-So-Secret Other Life as a Dancer by Barbara Quick
The memory is imprecise, like something recollected from a dream: a jewelry box, at eye level to my toddler self. My own hands in the perfection of their childish form—long-fingered, unmarked by life—reaching toward the black lacquer lid painted with blossoms. Hinging it open to animate the tiny pink-clad ballerina who otherwise waits asleep inside. […]
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 […]
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