Category: Contemporary Women Writers
On Writing and Teaching: Barbara Bleiman
I was ten when I wrote my first novel. OK, so it was on lined paper, in a blue exercise book, written in pencil with lots of crossings out, and its subject was a fairy, but it was the start of thinking ambitiously about writing fiction. For many decades after that, life got in the […]
Happy Ever After: Tracy Corbett
Happy Ever After by Tracy Corbett …and they all lived Happily Ever after. It’s a phrase we’re all familiar with. The handsome prince wins the hand of the beautiful princess and they sail off into the sunset amid shooting stars, fireworks, and showered in hearts and moonbeams. Like everyone else, I believed that’s all it […]
Witnessing Witchcraft: The Inspiration for Cunning Women
Witnessing Witchcraft: The Inspiration for Cunning Women Sitting at my laptop and scrabbling for inspiration a few years ago, I did not plan to write historical fiction. My previous (unpublished) novels were not in this genre – one was a futuristic love story, the other a coming of age tale set in the eighties. This, […]
Lisa Braxton: My Publication Journey
July 2017 Congratulations, Lisa! We’d like to publish The Talking Drum. I shared your manuscript with our board of directors and they thought it was fabulous. And I do too. Let me know if this lovely story is still available. If so, I’ll send you a contract and marketing questionnaire. We’ll schedule your book for […]
Out of Options; Author Interview
We are delighted to share this character interview by Sharon V. Agar, author of the smart, suspenseful and unexpectedly funny novel “Out of Options.” The book follows Eve, a mid-level Wall Street investment banker who books a Caribbean vacation to move on from a breakup. There, she meets unlikely duo Julian, a lawyer, and Eddie, […]
Q and A with Shanora Williams
Shanora Williams is a New York Times and the USA Today bestselling author of over thirty romance and diverse suspense novels. She currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina and is the mother of three amazing boys, has a fiercely devoted and supportive husband, and is a sister to eleven. When she isn’t writing, she’s spending […]
The Shape of Storytelling by Meghan Holloway
I fell in love with writing during a scriptwriting course in college. I had recently switched my major from math to creative writing, and the scriptwriting class taught by a theatre professor was my first workshop. Storytelling in its written form was the passion that nourished me, challenged me, and drove me. It was always […]
Being Heard
Gretchen Cherington On August 5 my memoir, Poetic License, turns one year in the world. My publication date, last summer, is a day I’ll never forget. Flowers arrived from all over, including ones I’d sent myself; FedEx delivered a large print of the book’s cover framed under glass from a friend in New Mexico; hundreds […]
Writing About Palliative Care Within A Romantic Comedy: Is It Possible To Laugh In The Face Of Death?
Writing about palliative care within a romantic comedy. Is it possible to laugh in the face of death? When I started writing Love Life as a romantic comedy, I knew immediately that I wanted to set it in a hospice – a cathedral of powerful human emotions and the perfect place to observe a whole […]
How I Got My Agent: A Lesson in Resilience and Hope
After spending roughly seventeen months from Labor-of-love first draft to polished, agent-ready manuscript, I was ready to send out my first compelling query letter. I wanted to send it to agents who were looking for women’s fiction. In the days before the magical interwebs, you’d have to purchase the massive Publisher’s Marketplace book, a tome […]
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