Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Unfinished Business
Cai Emmons on writing, life and living with ALS I am working as diligently as I can on a new novel, but novels cannot be rushed, and at the end of every work day, as I lay down the unfinished manuscript, a thought haunts me. What if I don’t have time to finish this novel […]
140 Miles of Life: A Remarkable Journey to Self- Acceptance and Love: Excerpt
By Veronica Carrera Author of 140 Miles of Life: A Remarkable Journey to Self- Acceptance and Love Veronica Carrera holds a B.A. in French from Brigham Young University and an M.B.A. from Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, where she was honored as “The 2015 Best Executive EMBA.” She recently completed the Inner M.B.A. (conscious […]
A Funny Thing Happened While Writing This Story!
A Funny Thing Happened While Writing This Story! Have you grown up in the shroud of family mysteries, like me, and never expected to see the proverbial light? Or, if by chance you fall into the category as my husband who can trace his heritage back to the pre-American Revolutionary days, you might still be […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Eve Smith and Off Target
An unthinkable decision A deadly mistake When a one-night stand leads to a long-desired pregnancy, Susan will do anything to ensure her husband won’t find out … including the unthinkable. But when something horrendous is unleashed around the globe, her secret isn’t the only thing that is no longer safe… In an all-too-possible near future, […]
How a Message from the Past Became my Muse
by 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 […]
The Question of Inspiration
For years I told myself that while I could probably write that novel, I would never be able to think up any ideas. I loved writing, I loved blogging, I was good at it – but fiction? That just seemed a scary step too far. In the end, a conversation with a friend finally pushed […]
The Power of Community in the Writing Process By Alida Miranda-Wolff
The Power of Community in the Writing Process By Alida Miranda-Wolff Writing my book proposal came easily; placing that proposal with a publisher didn’t. Between 2018 and 2019, I decided I both wanted to realize my dream of becoming a published author and spreading messages around diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB). When it came […]
Uncomfortable Books Are Important
by Sarah Tinsley Everyone wants to realise at least one of their dreams. For me, that happened just a few weeks ago. With the release of my debut novel The Shadows We Cast, the book I started over seven years ago finally exists in the world. But when people ask me what it’s about, it’s […]
Finding The Story
I have been asked from time-to-time where I get ideas for stories. I wish I could say that I get one spark of inspiration and poof! A plot and characters are in my head. For me, stories evolve from a whiff of an idea and grow over time as I start imagining the characters: who […]
Rising Above the Stories we Carry—A Memoir’s 12,000+ nautical-mile journey
Rising Above the Stories we Carry—A Memoir’s 12,000+ nautical-mile journey By Heidi Love Art by Linden O’Ryan Authors of Knowing Acts—Engage in Healing It is a vision of paradise and the promise of escape. Verdant peaks rise to meet a tropical sun. Streams of water surge over a fissure in a sheer cliff, disappearing in […]
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