Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Want to Write Book Reviews? Some Helpful Questions to Get You Started
Want to Write Book Reviews? Some Helpful Questions to Get You Started Erin Flanagan I first started writing book reviews seriously in 2015 when I was burned out from writing fiction and looking to get back to my original love of reading. For me, book reviews were a way to support other writers, champion their […]
United by Books: Lessons From a Bookseller-Turned-Author By Nicole Magistro
United by Books: Lessons From a Bookseller-Turned-Author By Nicole Magistro Indie bookstores feel like home – for 15 years I owned a bustling shop in an upscale resort town in Colorado. We thrived on building community, hosting events, and hiring friendly and voracious readers who loved to talk about books. During my tenure, I worked […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Raquel V. Reyes
Raquel V. Reyes interviews Miriam Quinoñes, food anthropologist, cooking show star, mother, and reluctant amateur sleuth in her Caribbean Kitchen culinary cozy debut, Mango, Mambo, and Murder. Raquel: Hola, Miriam. ¿Como estas? Miriam: I’m great. Thank you. Raquel: Can you tell the readers where this interview is taking place? M: Claro. We are sitting in […]
From Professional Fundraiser to Author of a How-to Guide on Philanthropy
For nearly three decades, I devoted my career to the nonprofit sector…as a volunteer, staff member, executive, and board member. Two of the best jobs I had were leading the national women’s philanthropy programs for both the American Red Cross and United Way. Those organizations mobilize over 70,000 women and raised over $2 billion. I […]
Interview with Samantha Durbin
Special K numbs her. Crystal meth makes her mean. Sixteen-year-old Samantha, raver extraordinaire, puts the “high” in high school. Samantha Durbin’s memoir RAVER GIRL Coming of Age in the 90s is out now and we’re delighted to feature this interview with her! Thank you so much for joining us on WWWB, Samantha! Thank you for […]
On the Path to Writing Nirvana: Catherine Gentile
Catherine Gentile Long before I understood that letters had the power to form words that captured concepts that can be documented in black and white and all sorts of fonts, I’d created skits, puppet shows, and plays, stories hatched out of my childhood imagination, rendered orally, and later, jotted in fat-penciled, wobbly words. Those tendencies […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Paulette Stout
Love, Only Better centers on the intimate quest of my main character, twenty-eight-year-old Rebecca Sloane. When her ex storms out, his stinging bedroom insults linger. She begins the empowering task of connecting with her sexual self, but her magnetic connection with Kyle, a gorgeous new neighbor across the hall, complicates matters. Rebecca struggles to juggle […]
Selective Writer’s Block: When Some Things Are Better Left Unwritten
Darkness is oppressive. Silence echoes what I do not want to hear. Night is a curse that keeps on coming back. Night is the green screen onto which everything is projected, what I do not want to see nor feel, my anxieties, my fears and pains. The sunrise ushers the relief of light, the glow […]
SEVEN SUREFIRE WAYS TO WEAKEN YOUR WRITING
SEVEN SUREFIRE WAYS TO WEAKEN YOUR WRITING by Ellen Notbohm Kudoplauseulations! You undertook the grand adventure of writing and publishing a book. And now you’ve either learned, or will shortly learn, that the final page of your book is not the end of writing, but the segue from writing the book into writing about the […]
A Deep Dive into the Past Changed My Future
A Deep Dive into the Past Changed My Future I’ve always been a writer. I wasn’t that little girl who dreamed of becoming the next Judy Blume or writing exposés for the New York Times, but I was the editor of my high school yearbook and always felt confident writing essays for my literature classes […]
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