Category: Contemporary Women Writers
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 […]
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 […]
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