Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Inspiration for Waterbury Winter
Inspiration for Waterbury Winter Ordinary events can sometimes trigger unusual results. In the case of fiction writing, serendipity can spark imagination. Waterbury Winter began that way, after an excursion to a drugstore one wintry day. My husband and I were visiting family in a cold part of the country for Christmas. On December 26th we […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Jacinda Townsend
MOTHER COUNTRY Saddled with student loans, medical debt, and the sudden news of her infertility after a major car accident, Shannon, an African American woman, follows her boyfriend to Morocco in search of relief. There, in the cobblestoned medina of Marrakech, she finds a toddler in a pink jacket whose face mirrors her own. With […]
You’ve Got to Have Grit: My Path to Publication
by Debbie Schrack One of my favorite novels of all time is a classic western by Charles Portis called True Grit. In the story, fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross teams up with a burned-out U.S. marshal and a Texas ranger to pursue her father’s killer, Tom Chaney, through hostile territory. Although Mattie doesn’t have the experience of […]
Strange Journeys: What Writing The Line Between Taught Me By Tosca Lee
Strange Journeys: What Writing The Line Between Taught Me By Tosca Lee Writing a novel is always a journey—into history or the future, your beliefs or values, into fantastic worlds or the mystery of the everyday one around us. Into what fascinates and terrifies us. It’s also a writing journey as well, each book doling […]
Collecting Facts for Daughter of Luharu
“I have been collecting facts for Daughter of Luharu for decades” – Monica Gupta Science says, cerebrum is made up of grey and white matter, comprising of cells and nerves, but mine I say is made of stories, events and characters – real and imagined. I am an introvert, a little marginalized in expressing emotions. […]
Interview with Polly Hamilton Hilsabeck
Polly Hamilton Hilsabeck’s novel AMERICAN BLUES came out earlier this month and has been getting great reviews! “Hilsabeck’s prose is vivid and urgent . . .” —Kirkus Reviews “The blues are black folks’ breathing through the grisly legacies of white malevolence and grotesque bloodlust in America. American Blues gives readers a haunting glimpse into the […]
HILDE ON THE RECORD: MEMOIR OF A KID CRIME REPORTER Excerpt
Hilde Kate Lysiak, American journalist and founder of the Orange Street News, has been profiled by the New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, NBC Today, the Washington Post and more. She’s interviewed former First Lady Michelle Obama for The National, is the youngest member of the Society of Professional Journalists, has a six-book series with […]
Finding My Voice in Nineteenth-Century France
Finding My Voice in Nineteenth-Century France Laura Stanfill Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary, my debut novel, is forthcoming from Lanternfish Press in April 2022. I’ll be forty-six. It’s taken a long time to embrace my material and my voice; I probably needed these decades to acknowledge my neurodivergence and to recognize my way of […]
To Market, To Market! By Barbara Kennard
In what ways are you, as a writer, also a seller? This question might sound odd especially if you rely solely on others to market your book. Of course writers need publicists to help get our work out into the world; however, by promoting our books we realize that we market too! I taught English […]
Feast to Famine, and Famine to Feast, Writer Style
Five years ago, I was living what I will affectionately call “the writer high life.” I’d been in the business as a professional for a short time and felt like I was doing a good job of building my career and my backlist. With a decent helping of luck going my way, I saw no […]
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