Category: Contemporary Women Writers
INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING: OFF THE BEATEN PATH
Independent publishing, as opposed to commercial pushing (think Random House), is a terrific option for authors whose books don’t fit a literary agent’s idea of “saleable.” Authors of short story or essay collections, flash fiction, poetry, hybrid work and off-the-beaten-path novels very often seek out independent presses for possible publication, and they are right to […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Grace Sammon
Authors Interviewing Characters: Grace Sammon The Eves is a multi-generational novel about lives lived well and lives in transition. Told through the eyes of the psychologically-complex Jessica Barnet, we travel to Washington, DC, Southern Maryland, Tanzania, and Norway. Jessica is a liar with some big secrets. She has given up on her looks and her […]
Bookstores and Authors Series: Lisa Barr
Authors share their favorite bookstores! LISA BARR There’s something so special and intimate between authors and their favorite Indie bookstores, especially the locals – those shops we “grew up” in. When I penned my debut novel, I dreamed of one day being displayed in their iconic glass windows filled with bestselling books. If only … […]
Travel Helped Me Become a Writer – And Fulfilled a Prediction
When I was about eight and living with my parents, grandparents and two siblings in Miami Beach in a two-bedroom bungalow with Cuban tile floors, my father played the horses. I never knew if he would come back from the track smiling or ready to spank me for getting in his way. I was a […]
Stuck in the Squishy Middle
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 By Martha Conway We’ve all been there: […]
Writing Laid Bare: What The Business Leader Learnt From the Stripper
Trusting the signs When a third friend in a row mentioned in spring 2019 that I should write a book or that I’ll be a writer, I actually gave it a thought. I’d always enjoyed writing but haven’t ever been involved in a major writing project past postgraduate course. I knew my creativity was going […]
Rochelle Weinstein’s Fall Favorites!
Readers & Friends, How nice to be here with the wonderful Barbara Bos and Women Writers, Women’s Books! Not only do I write women’s fiction novels, but I’m also a huge reader. My mother passed down her love of the written word; I’d sneak Sidney Sheldon and Danielle Steele off her shelf, slipping inside the […]
Give the Most Powerful Gift of All: Books! Heather Levy
Give the Most Powerful Gift of All: Books! Heather Levy It’s been 37 years, but I still remember the first book anyone ever gifted me. I was in kindergarten, and my teacher, always effervescent in her enthusiasm for reading, gave each of her students a book during our classroom holiday party. I recall staring at […]
Six Universal Truths About Writing Novels
The Girl in the Maze. I was on a creative writing course and was drafting short exercises for different assignments. But some time in the second year of the course, in spring 2017, I realised that what I was creating were not separate pieces but part of a longer story which by late 2021 would […]
My Journey into the World of Victorian Women Doctors By Olivia Campbell
My Journey into the World of Victorian Women Doctors By Olivia Campbell Today, when a young woman announces her intention to become a doctor, she is greeted with cheers and praise. In the 1800s, such an announcement might plunge family members into depressive episodes and may even see the young woman disowned. Women interested in […]
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