Category: Contemporary Women Writers
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 […]
Writing: a Passionate Prescription – Dr. Manisha Saxena
By Dr. Manisha Saxena Anton Chekhov, the great Russian playwright once famously said, “Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress.” With the publication of my second book, a high octane crime thriller titled ‘Blue Jeans’, my thoughts wander to all the great doctors, who have penned amazing books, which readers enjoy to […]
Break a Leg to Become a Writer by Aga Lesiewicz
Break a Leg to Become a Writer by Aga Lesiewicz As my literary hero Margaret Atwood said: ‘You become a writer by writing.” This is absolutely true, there is no other way. But life can make it difficult: the job, the family, the kids, the never-ending litany of everyday chores. So, you put it off: […]
The Inspiration Behind THE CHILD FROM UKRAINE
Between the ages of 7 and 18, I lived with my Ukrainian grandmother Yulia, and I exclusively spoke Ukrainian with her, as she did not speak much English. We had mornings together, we had afternoons after school together when she would talk to me about gathering mushrooms in the local forest… we would watch soap […]
A Flash of Joy and a Little bit of Wonder
A few years ago while I was writing my first novel, on my way home from hot yoga, my husband informed me that he saw the purple flash during Shavasana. “It was incredible. Magical even, if you believe in that,” he said. “I was totally centered and grounded but felt this lightness of being.” He […]
Meaningful Consent
Meaningful Consent “Is it okay if I include this in my book?” I asked Owen Rivers this question dozens of times during the two-and-a-half years it took me to write my book, “The Memory Thief and the Secrets Behind How We Remember – A Medical Mystery.” Of course, I asked everyone else I spoke with […]
When Readers Don’t “Get” Your Book: On The Delicate Subject of Difficult Books
When Readers Don’t “Get” Your Book: On The Delicate Subject of Difficult Books By Lindsay Merbaum “I had to actually read every word of your book!” is a comment I’ve now heard a few times in response to my debut experimental queer feminist horror novel The Gold Persimmon, (is that enough of a mouthful for […]
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