Category: Contemporary Women Writers
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 […]
On Writing A Memoir by Sandra CH Smith
Good grief…write a memoir? Unwrap all the little boxes and let the dark secrets out? Let them all know who I really am or was? You’ve gotta be kidding! No way, Jose! Well, that’s what I thought when someone suggested I write a book about the seven years I spent sailing alone in the Pacific. […]
Local Woman Writing: Interview with Mary Kubica
LOCAL WOMAN WRITING I meet Mary Kubica outside at a darling coffee shop in downtown Plainfield, Illinois. She’s wearing a jacket, hands cupped around a warm coffee, even though its plenty warm outside, spring having recently—finally—arrived in the Chicago suburbs. She greets me with a warm smile and quick hug. The coffee shop is closed […]
Sarah Patt: On Writing
I feel incredibly fortunate to have a job I absolutely love! I am a one-on-one tutorial teacher in a private school for children with a language-based learning disability. I help them in reading, writing, and spelling. My campus which is in a quaint seaside town thirty miles north of Boston, Massachusetts enrolls students in the […]
Science Fiction World Building
Most creative writing projects require a certain amount of research. Science fiction as a genre, is probably further towards the top of the research tree than say a memoir, or young adult fiction, but of course every project is unique and an author’s methods—across any genre—might take a vigorous investigative approach. But science fiction is […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Rektok Ross, author of Ski Weekend
Authors Interviewing Characters: Rektok Ross, author of Ski Weekend Rektok Ross is the pen name of Liani Kotcher, a trial attorney turned award-winning young adult author and book blogger. An avid reader since childhood, Liani writes exactly the kind of books she loves to escape into herself: exciting thrillers with strong female leads, swoonworthy love […]
Q&A With Justine Hardy: Author of DUST
DUST [October 26, 2021; Batik Press] by bestselling author and trauma therapist Justine Hardy takes readers on a journey for the search of a missing aid worker, diving into some of the true complexities of the aid and NGO world in the region of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and China. We are delighted to feature this interview with Justine! […]
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