Category: Contemporary Women Writers
I Almost Gave Up — Then at 83, I Got My First Publishing Deal By Brigid Carrick
I had almost given up on traditional publishing. After years of writing, redrafting and submitting my manuscript to publishers in Australia and Ireland, I was on the verge of self-publishing when an email arrived on a Sunday afternoon. It was from Ventura Press in New South Wales. “Could you send us the first chapter of […]
On Writing FRIENDSHIP SKILLS FOR NEURODIVERGENT ADULTS by Caroline Maguire
When I sat down to write Friendship Skills for Neurodivergent Adults, I was not starting from a blank page. I was starting from decades of listening, brainstorming, and searching. Searching for answers that my clients share routinely after a tough conversation with a friend, or a confusing conversation with a coworker or a shameful moment […]
Interview with Adassa
Adassa—Oscar, Grammy, and Golden Globe recipient, platinum-selling artist, and the voice of Dolores Madrigal in Encanto—invites us into her personal story of achieving her musical dreams, battling a paralyzing illness, and having faith in divine timing. Born to immigrant Colombian parents with big dreams in their hearts but little in their pockets, Adassa learned early that […]
There’s More to Writing a Novel, than Writing What You Know: Knowing the Woman Who Broke My Heart
By Kate Clinch “Write what you know” is standard writing advice, but when I set out to write a novel about the life and legacy of Australian saint-in-waiting Eileen O’Connor, it was what I didn’t know that drove me. I hadn’t even heard of Eileen until a year or two before the inspiration came, but […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Holly May Cormier
A Conversation With Memphis Monroe On Trauma Bonds, Breaking Cycles, and Finding Freedom In this imagined character interview, Memphis Monroe speaks candidly about surviving a toxic, trauma-bonded relationship, the cities that shaped her resilience, and the difficult choices required to break cycles of generational abuse. Her reflections are raw, compassionate, and unflinching — offering insight […]
Writing Myself Back into the Story
By Dr. Kathryn Page, author of Good Work:Transform Your Work from the Inside Out I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember. Growing up on a farm, with two ex-police officers as parents, home life was unpredictable. Happiness wasn’t something any of us knew how to tend to. It wasn’t that we were […]
The Origin Story: How a Career’s Worth of Frustration Became a Book
By Kimberly Lee, SPHR I did not sit down one day and decide to write a book. That is not how this happened. What happened was more like a slow accumulation. Twenty years of watching the same thing play out in organization after organization, across industries, across company sizes, in good economic times and bad. […]
You Are Never Too Old to Pursue a Dream
One woman finds meaning in her senior years through writing. Dr. Susanne T. Eden Ed.D. I never set out to write this book. As it turned out, I had no choice. I was compelled. So how did I, an 80-something-year-old woman with a long career in education, come to write a book about health and aging? At […]
Whitney H. Murphy: On Creating My Graphic Novels
By Whitney H. Murphy It’s difficult to say when my writing journey began. Some might assume that it began with the little stories I drew up with crayons and misspelled words on the papers that I stapled together, in first grade. I can certainly thank my dad, who encouraged me to read the works of […]
Creating Cowboys
By Nan Reinhardt Confession? I don’t know any real cowboys. I read about them in the novels that my fellow western authors write; I’ve watched myriad TV westerns both new and old and rodeo videos galore. We had horses for fifteen years, so I’ve met lots of horsemen, some may even have thought of themselves […]
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