Category: Contemporary Women Writers
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 […]
Nicola Matthews – My Writing Inspiration
Nicola Matthews – My Writing Inspiration I live on a peninsular which has a very distinctive feel with its ragged inlets, silken mudflats and wide open skies. My protagonist, Kitty, walked this same landscape three hundred years earlier. Although it would have changed somewhat, it is the same ground, the same rhythm of tides that […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Carolyn Clarke
Carolyn Clarke, award winning author, interviews Allison Montgomery, the protagonist of her debut novel And Then There’s Margaret. And Then There’s Margaret is a story about a tired, worn-out mid-lifer, Allison Montgomery, who feels lost inside the walls of her own identity, both at home and at work. When her father-in-law, someone she adores and cherishes, […]
Fire and Ice: An Ode to Setting
Fire and Ice: An Ode to Setting by Meghan Holloway I fell in love the first time. I was in my late teens, and I had never before experienced that bitterness of the wind, those depths of snow, or that sheer wildness of a landscape. Yellowstone in the unrelenting grips of winter captured my heart […]
A Journey Towards Change
No Stars in the Sky, by Martha Bátiz A journey towards change No Stars in the Sky features 19 stories that touch upon themes and subjects that are very close to my heart, that keep me up at night and that, more often than not, are very present in our everyday news. Like so many […]
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