Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Inspiration for Happy AF by Beth Romero
Inspiration for Happy AF by Beth Romero Many people ask me what inspired Happy AF: Simple Strategies to Get Unstuck, Bounce Back, and Live Your Best Life. As the title attests, it is a comprehensive guidebook for happiness. I always respond that I didn’t set out to write a book, but rather the book set […]
Behind the Scenes: Writing Martha’s Story By Jodi Decker
Behind the Scenes: Writing Martha’s Story By Jodi Decker Sometimes the source of a story idea is in your DNA—literally. When my daughter and I embarked on writing Poems From the Asylum, about our great-grandmother and grandmother Martha Gruening Nasch, respectively, it sent us on a writing journey through genealogy, family history, and historical research […]
Saying Good-Bye by Jeannee Sacken
I love to read series. As a kid, I read The Bobbsey Twins and Laura Ingalls Wilder, then Nancy Drew and Cherry Ames. As an adult, I’m always up for the newest Lady Darby or Lady Emily historical mystery, a Kate Burkholder thriller, or one of Suzanne Brockmann’s Troubleshooter books. Truth be told, I’ve got […]
THE WAYS OF WATER by Teresa H. Janssen: Excerpt
THE WAYS OF WATER As Josie Belle Gore, daughter of a Louisiana train engineer and Texas seamstress, journeys with her itinerant family through the deserts of the boom-and-bust American West and revolutionary Mexico, she learns that in her life, two things are constant: water is precious, and her role in her family is to save […]
Connection Through the Narcissistic Parent
Connection Through the Narcissistic Parent Trying to describe what it’s like to grow up with a narcissistic parent is uniquely frustrating. If I say that my parent was abusive, people immediately assume that I’m talking about physical abuse and when I correct them, they often cannot understand that a person who doesn’t use their fists […]
The Context of Writing in My Life by Debbie Chein Morris
The Context of Writing in My Life by Debbie Chein Morris From time immemorial, people have had the desire and the need to write. Even before modern-day alphabetic letters were created, before paper and pen, pictographs lined the walls of caves. Ancient tools were used to carve pictures into stone so that stories could be […]
From PhD Research to Fiction: The Struggles and Opportunities of Compiling and Editing “The Unpicking” for Commercial Publication
From PhD Research to Fiction: The Struggles and Opportunities of Compiling and Editing “The Unpicking” for Commercial Publication Historical novel “The Unpicking” (October 2023, Fly on the Wall Press) is the creative writing element of a PhD thesis which explores the role of women between 1870 and 1920, particularly marginalised women whose lives are often […]
Writing Organically Can Be Messy
Writing Organically Can Be Messy I write organically. This sounds significantly less weird than the usual description of my writing process, which goes something like this: “I vomit out my first draft, which will be undeniably horrible, and then do most of the actual ‘writing’ in revision.” I guess that version is also organic in its own […]
Writing About the Unheralded Strength of Women in a Time of War
Writing about the Unheralded Strength of Women in a Time of War Juliet Greenwood I loved writing The Last Train from Paris, published by Storm Publishing on 23rd October 2023. The novel was largely inspired by family stories I’ve heard all my life, as well as childhood memories of my mum’s family and friends in […]
Paralysed and Podcasting about Books
Silence enveloped the room, occasionally disrupted by the soft splutter of a cough. Mostly, it was my inner turmoil, urging me to break the silence with words—any words. This was the daunting experience of public speaking, an unconventional beginning for a podcast centred on mental wellbeing and life skills. One night, after a decade of […]
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