Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Always Ahead of her Time, Pauli Murray’s Time is Now
Always Ahead of her Time, Pauli Murray’s Time is Now by Simki Kuznick People often ask me how I learned about Pauli Murray. They wonder how a White woman came to be interested in an obscure African-American civil rights activist who is barely mentioned in the history books. It started when I traveled to Ghana […]
My Writing Process by Celine O’Donovan
It started with a gentle nudge but soon took on a life of its own…… By Celine O’Donovan These opening words from my new book, Gifts from the Devastation pretty much sum up how I started writing and how the process has evolved since then. Writing this book was the first time I ever consciously […]
Who Needs Other Women?
The friend you used to tell every scrap of good news to, and every heartache, too. The sister you shared a bedroom with for years. The woman at work who knew more about your day and your reaction to it than anyone else. Where are they now? Women’s fiction is about relationships, and well-written books […]
How It All Started, by Suzanne Redfearn
By Suzanne Redfearn It started out simple: I had a story I wanted to tell. The hard part was I wasn’t a writer and didn’t know the first thing about writing a novel. Fortunately, when I started, I didn’t care if it was good. I wasn’t looking to get published. I was simply determined to […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Cleyvis Natera
Neruda on the Park by Cleyvis Natera An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification “Strikes all the right notes—captivating characters, lyrical language, and a storyline that captures your imagination and refuses to let go . . . an […]
An Interview with Kathleen Courtenay Stone
THEY CALLED US GIRLS: Stories of Female Ambition from Suffrage to Mad Men by Kathleen C. Stone is a wonderful new collective biography of seven women who aspired to professional jobs in the mid-twentieth century. It was an era when women were expected to find fulfillment at home, in the mold of television’s June Cleaver. But these women […]
She Will Soar: Why Women Write about Escape and Freedom
My second anthology of poems by women, She Will Soar, aimed again at an 11+ audience as She Is Fierce was, takes as its themes wanderlust, freedom and escape – themes which suddenly took on a strange relevance as I edited the book during lockdown. I have always believed in books and poetry as magic […]
LIKE ME, by Hayley Phelan, Excerpt
LIKE ME by Hayley Phelan A seductive psychological thriller about obsession, illusion, and female identity in the digital age. Though beautiful, cunning, and privileged, nineteen-year-old Mickey finds herself with a stalled modeling career, an escalating drinking problem, few friends, and next to nothing in the bank. To numb her growing despair, she spends her days […]
Revising for Tone During Difficult Times
Revising for Tone During Difficult Times By Katherine Cowley I spent most of 2020 writing and revising my novel, The True Confessions of a London Spy. It was a difficult book to write for all the reasons you would expect…shutdowns, school closures, family worries, life upheavals, the rising pandemic death toll, and sickness spreading, spreading, spreading. Somehow, […]
Zero to Twenty: My Publishing Journey
Zero to Twenty It’s wonderful to have a dream. Unless, as happened to me, the dream becomes so precious you’re afraid to try make it come true in case it crashes to the ground and smashes into a million sad disappointed pieces. I’d wanted to write for so many years – started now and then, […]
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