Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Writing and Researching The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great defied a deadly virus
I’m the writer who took the sex out of the story of Catherine the Great. Actually, that’s not strictly true: I may be British, but I’m not that prim. What I really wanted to do when writing my book The Empress and the English Doctor is ditch the false sexual smears trotted out (ha!) for […]
Representation in Writing – Author’s Dilemma, Author’s Responsibility
Representation in writing – author’s dilemma, author’s responsibility There is maybe no hotter topic right now for writers than the question of representation. Writers everywhere are debating whether writing characters out of one’s own ethnicity or gender might be considered wrong. The answer isn’t so simple. My latest novel, The Fervor (GP Putnam’s Sons) marks […]
Inspiration Behind DANGER TO OTHERS
I always thought I would become a therapist, helping people like me—late bloomers with difficult relationships. Instead, I spent my career working with people experiencing serious mental illness. I have a knack for forming relationships with young men whose voices tell them to assault, old women kicked out of nursing homes, and overwhelmed youth who […]
The Survivors Who Inspired my Debut Novel
The Survivors Who Inspired my Debut Novel By: Nora Murphy While attending law school, I participated in two clinics through which I studied the issues facing survivors of intimate partner violence—also referred to domestic abuse or domestic violence. After graduating, I worked as a judicial law clerk for two years, before entering private practice—experiences which […]
The Journey from Dream to Book
A fictional imagination of one of the most innovative designers of his time debut novel “Magician of Light” (She Writes Press, May 17, 2022) by J Fremont, is an in depth exploration of René Lalique’s adolescent years in Paris, his journey from student to leading glass manufacturer, and his real-life romance with Lucinda Haliburton. This […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Robin Farrar Maass
Authors Interviewing Characters: Robin Farrar Maass The Walled Garden is an academic mystery novel about an American grad student who comes to England to finish her doctoral dissertation about an English garden writer and soon finds herself on the trail of a decades-old mystery, in a fight to save the writer’s historic gardens, and in […]
Mental Health Awareness Month: Reading List
According to Mental Health America, “19.86% of adults are experiencing a mental illness,” which is “equivalent to nearly 50 million Americans,” and “15.08% of youth (age 12-17) report suffering from at least one major depressive episode (MDE) in the past year.” These figures refer to reported cases, and mental health professionals believe that the true […]
Inspiration Behind THE MIDNIGHT HOUSE
Amanda Geard High in the beams of the derelict Georgian house my husband and I renovated in southwest Ireland we discovered a hidden message – obscured by lime and horse hair – left by a long-dead carpenter. When this comes down, pray for me. Tim O’Shea, 1911. It was 2018, and we took that slip […]
From Bookstagrammer to Author: Amy Lea
A lifetime love of reading I’ve written fiction since I was old enough to write full sentences in crayon. As a pre-teen, I’d sit for hours on my family desktop secretly writing angsty teen love triangle romances (which may or may not have been loosely inspired by true events). Then, I’d walk the vast distance […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Connie Hertzberg Mayo
The Sharp Edge of Mercy by Connie Hertzberg Mayo (Heliotrope Books, pub. date May 6, 2022), is about a nursing assistant in 1890 at the New York Cancer Hospital. It’s a beautifully written, gripping novel about social inequities, medical ethics, and the enduring challenges for women in healthcare and the workplace. Told by an indomitable and likable young heroine, […]
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