Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Discovering Nuggests Of Wisdom
By Carole Bumpus While finishing the manuscript for my latest book, A September to Remember: Searching for Culinary Pleasures at the Italian Table, I stumbled over a precious gem within one of my interviews—an interview conducted twenty years prior. My initial goal for writing a culinary/travel memoir series was to bring readers a sense of […]
Karina Kennedy interviews Marina Taylor from A Not So Lonely Planet: Italy
Karina Kennedy makes her debut onto the contemporary romance scene with A Not So Lonely Planet: Italy, following the comical and romantic misadventures of Marina Taylor, a globetrotting travel blogger from Key West. Karina Kennedy interviews Marina Taylor from A Not So Lonely Planet: Italy KK: Marina, I’m a well-traveled romantic myself and I love […]
Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy EXCERPT
About Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy: Jacinda Ardern was swept to office in 2017 on a wave of popular enthusiasm dubbed ‘Jacindamania’. In less than three months, she rose from deputy leader of the opposition to New Zealand’s highest office. Her victory seemed heroic. Few in politics would have believed it possible; fewer still would have […]
Real Life & Fiction by Hilary Hauck
When I was writing my debut historical novel, From Ashes to Song, I was intentional about borrowing from real life to create fiction. The deeper I went into the process, the more fascinated I became by the symbiotic relationship between fiction and real life. Though I have less (or no) control over what happens when […]
Review Envy: How Many Amazon Reviews Do You Have?
Densie Webb All published authors experience some degree of author envy. Any author who says “not me!” is either covering up their real feelings or they’re in serious denial. The topic of author envy has been written about confessionally by any number of authors—even accomplished authors who would seem to have no reason to be […]
Identity and Readership: The Feminism Problem of Erebus Dawning
By AJ Super I have Women Who Write Women in Science Fiction Problems. It’s well known in sci-fi circles that women who write sci-fi get the short end when it comes to readership. Namely, a certain demographic of certain male readers is a gas-lighting, mansplaining, mess of wannabe critics. And it doesn’t matter if you […]
Path to Becoming a Writer by Karen S. Bennett
I AM a writer, but it was a long time before I knew that. My biggest sister, five years ahead of me, was a writer. I also had a sister two years older but she was of the crossword variety of girl. I didn’t know what a writer did exactly, but I did know that […]
A Love Affair with Peru: The Lure and Power of Place in Writing
A Love Affair with Peru: The Lure and Power of Place in Writing By Claire Ibarra I was trekking the Inca trail, and the narrow, dirt path followed alongside the torrential Apurímac River. The switchbacks were jagged, cutting through wild grasses, boulders, and twisted trees. The Salkantay mountain range loomed nearby, and snow-capped peaks and […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: Mary Camarillo interviews Brenda Lockhart
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: Mary Camarillo interviews Brenda Lockhart In “The Lockhart Women,” Brenda Lockhart is devastated when her husband announces he’s leaving her for another woman, a coworker at the post office. He drops this bombshell on the night of the O. J. Simpson slow speed chase through Southern California. Left alone, Brenda gets hooked […]
The Upside of the Virtual Book Launch
“You know, Mom, this is a celebration,” my wise and observant daughter said to me four days before the virtual book launch of my memoir The Red Kitchen. It was good to be reminded that what felt like the notorious “marathon mile 25” was also a short distance from the finish line. When She Writes […]
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