Category: Contemporary Women Writers
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 […]
Unstuck: Feedback That Stops You Cold By Martha Conway
This blog series, Unstuck, explores some of the ways fiction writers find themselves stuck and offers tips from successful writers for getting unstuck. Unstuck is a six-month series published the first Monday of the month. Read the previous installments: WRITING THE BEGINNING OVER AND OVER UNSTUCK STUCK IN THE SQUISHY MIDDLE “Here’s what I would do instead …” […]
2022 Winter Must-Reads
Let’s be honest, winter is the one time of year where we all want to be trapped inside, and there’s no better way to enjoy that then to dive into a good book. If you can’t decide what’s next on your TBR we’ve put together a list of some of this cozy-season’s most intriguing reads. […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Sally Hanan
My Heart Went Walking by Sally Hanan (Fire Drinkers Publishing, hardback £20, paperback £11.99) is an Irish tale of love, loss and redemption. Sally Hanan’s sublime debut mixes the prose of Sue Monk Kidd with the dialogue of Maeve Binchy. With captivating warmth, she pulls us in to explore how it felt to live in […]
Cai Emmons: Time Out of Time
This piece first appeared on Medium Cai Emmons, on Time and the first anniversary of her ALS diagnosis When I was teaching college-age and graduate fiction writers, I liked to use an exercise called “Braiding Time” to encourage the students to think about the interior lives of their characters and getting closer to understanding their […]
WHAT INSPIRED THE BOOK BIBLE? by Susan Shapiro
Susan B. Shapiro is an award-winning Manhattan writing professor and The New York Times bestselling author of 10 books, including the acclaimed memoirs FIVE MEN WHO BROKE MY HEART, LIGHTING UP and ONLY AS GOOD AS YOUR WORD, the coauthored nonfiction books UNHOOKED and THE BOSNIA LIST, and the novel WHAT’S NEVER SAID. Her books […]
Why I Write Funny Mysteries
By Kelly Oliver Using Humor is Serious Business When I was in graduate school (a million years ago), a guy invited me over to his place for a dinner date and served Chardonnay and Captain Crunch cereal. To be fair, he was living on a grad student stipend and had to economize, and Captain Crunch […]
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