Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Rethinking Revenge: Injustice, Empathy, and Common Ground on a Bridge over the Thames
The plot for Down a Dark River leapt at me from a contemporary story that I couldn’t put out of my head. Some years ago, I read an article about race and the law in the US that included an account of a young Black woman in the South who jaywalked across a quiet street. […]
A Job, Not a Career
Rachel King Half my lifetime ago, the summer after my freshman year at the University of Oregon, in the mornings I read books, then in the afternoons and evenings I worked as a line cook at Newport Bay, a floating restaurant on Portland’s waterfront. In high school, I’d liked Kate Chopin’s “The Story of Hour,” […]
I had Life Boredom and didn’t know it
By Elizabeth Gonzalez James I used to be a singer. From sixth grade on, I practiced scales and memorized entire musicals alone in my bedroom. I sang at competitions. My first job when I was sixteen was belting out operatic Happy Birthday serenades at Macaroni Grill. My senior year I was voted “Best Voice.” In […]
Still Writing After All These Years by Chamein Canton
Although I played with dolls and watched Disney Fairytales like Cinderella and Snow White, I never gave much thought to Prince Charming. In fact, my views on becoming a woman, relationships, and love were shaped by writers such as Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Judy Blume, and many other classic and modern female authors. These women were fearless in […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Stella Fosse
Brilliant Charming Bastard by Stella Fosse First Wives Club meets The Witches of Eastwick in Brilliant Charming Bastard. When three women scientists discover they are dating the same lying dilettante, who is stealing their ideas as well as their hearts, the best revenge is getting rich. Rose Bingham is a professor of Biology at UC […]
Sarah Stonich: On Writing
In my RayAnne trilogy, Fishing! meets up with RayAnne Dahl after she’s fled the misogynistic pro sport-fishing circuit to land out of her league in the rarified realm of public television, which poses its own set of challenges. Reeling is the follow up, wherein RayAnne takes the show abroad to New Zealand. When this character […]
Travel Helped Me Become a Writer – And Fulfilled a Prediction
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 […]
The Blogger-Author Relationship—Gaining 5-Star Status
If your relationship with the blogging community consists of a mass email dump to Dear Blogger every time you release a new book, you’re missing the point. Book blogs don’t just add to the string of 5-star reviews you’re hoping to wrap around your new release. Book bloggers also host authors, participate in book hops, and provide content related to reading […]
I’M GREAT Every Day: A Guided Journal for Creating a Better Self
by Linda Callahan Reading and writing have always been an integral part of my life. My love for reading and writing began at an early age. I was the child who would walk to the library and walk home with my arms laden with books. I especially love journaling. I started keeping a journal when […]
Becoming Jack Hopper
Becoming Jack Hopper (Disclaimer: Nothing I say here will be politically correct) By Joan Schweighardt I had a penchant for writing from multiple points of view from the get-go, but as most of my characters were women, I never had to sustain my “maleness” throughout an entire book. My first first-person male was an English […]
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