Category: Contemporary Women Writers
One Courageous Step at a Time
One Courageous Step at a Time It was my first winter in the Cape. I’d arrived nine months previously, to endless blue skies and a long summer on the beach. A rented cottage on the Peninsula had been my bolt-hole. There, I’d rested and recovered from the burn-out I’d pushed myself into in London. It […]
It’s All In Your Mind…Literally!
By F.J. Beerling This is just the beginning. There is also a middle and an end to this story, to any story. My story begins with being different, struggling to find my vocation, knowing there was something out there that would work for me, but not knowing what. One day I announced to a dear […]
Nancy Allen: On Writing and Researching Grace
How does a woman carry this searing, painful memory? First kisses, the first boyfriend, and sex the first time were all good memories for Catherine. What if all that was erased by the violence, this loss of control over her body? Nancy Allen: On Writing and Researching Grace When I first started writing, Grace was Catherine’s story. […]
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 […]
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