Category: Contemporary Women Writers
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 […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Tessa Wegert
Dead Wind The body is discovered on Wolfe Island, under the shadow of an enormous wind turbine. Senior Investigator Shana Merchant, arriving on the scene with fellow investigator Tim Wellington, can’t shake the feeling that she knows the victim – and the subsequent identification sends shockwaves through their community in the Thousand Islands of Upstate […]
Writing White Africa
I was born and grew up in Zambia, and I developed an early appetite for African fiction. I did my secondary schooling at the Dominican Convent Girls’ School in Lusaka. When I was about thirteen, I was allowed to start borrowing books from the locked glass-fronted cabinet in the library. The headmistress, Sister Cordula, kept […]
The Inspiration behind Hidden Depths
Every family has its stories and mine is no exception. But in between the funny sayings, quirky behaviour and lost treasures, there is one that has always held my attention. My great-grandfather, Lawrence Beesley, survived the sinking of the Titanic. A fact made even more incredible because he was travelling second class, from where only […]
Character interviews: Veronica Gutierrez interviews Yolanda Avila from AS YOU LOOK
Veronica Gutierrez interviews Yolanda Avila from AS YOU LOOK Debut author Veronica Gutierrez introduces us to Yolanda Avila, a Los Angeles private investigator struggling with the intersection of grief, guilt, and latent psychic tendencies following the death of her mother. Her struggle peaks when she must solve her godson’s kidnapping and find her wife’s stalker, […]
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