Category: Contemporary Women Writers
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, […]
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 […]
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