Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Because of a Book
By Wendy J. Dunn Increasingly, I read about the decline of reading. That fewer people have or make the time to read books. Every time I read this, I feel sad. More than simply sad. I am who I am because of books. A book changed my life and turned it into a true adventure. […]
Writer to Doctor and Back Again
By Dr. Tali Lando Before I was a doctor, I was a writer. From the time I was a young child, I dreamed of writing a book. I poured my thoughts into daily, angsty poems, stapling messy loose-leaf pages together under grand titles like Tali’s Book of Thoughts scrawled across the top. By my late […]
When is it Time to Change Genre? Writing for The Market. Or Not.
By Sharon Maas Novelists write because we have stories to tell, and from the very beginning, I knew what my stories were going to be about. I’d grown up in Guyana, in the heyday of the colonial era, when it was still British Guiana, and that’s where I’d take my readers. Back to the post-colonial […]
Forging the Literary Path by Claire R. McDougall
by Claire R. McDougall When I was a child of about ten, an ambitious grade school teacher decided that her class should collectively write a novel. Every week, we would write a chapter, and it was all very democratic: the theme was decided by vote, and any child who felt so moved, would submit a […]
Should Authors Read Their Own Book Reviews?
By Susan Wands Your book is published – hooray! Now it’s time to read your reviews – oh no! As an author, you live mostly on a one-way street, with an occasional visit from an editor, proofreader, writing group member or beta reader. In your creative nook, your chosen team provides feedback. After countless rewrites, […]
How Writing one Letter Turned into a Book
By Carol Van Den Hende Dear Women Writers, If you could pen a letter to anyone, living or dead, real or imaginary, who would you write to? Would you write about something left unsaid? That question sparked my fourth book, my collection of personal letters and true stories called Dear Orchid. Funny enough, my earliest […]
A Hero Lives Here, by Eileen Goudge
A Hero Lives Here, by Eileen Goudge “Eileen Goudge writes like a house on fire, creating characters you come to love and hate to leave.” What’s not to love about this blurb by Nora Roberts? Not only does it come from the mistress of propulsive fiction herself, but it sums up who I am as […]
Two Minds, One Story: The Realities of Co-Authoring a Series
By Betsey Kulakowski Collaboration is one of the most rewarding and challenging experience a writer can have. Co-writing a book series with an other author can elevate your storytelling to a new level, but it requires trust, communication, and a shared vision. I’ve learned a lot about myself as a writer while collaborating with the […]
Why I Write Spice
by Jennie L. Spohr The first romance novel I ever read was Secrets, Sweet Valley High Book 2, by Francine Pascal. Forced to read them out of order, as they were continuously checked out of our school library, we flock of prepubescent girls (and some boys) flew to the shelves as soon as the lunch […]
The Hardest Part about Writing
By Rebecca Lee Smith For me, the hardest part about writing is plotting. Some writers possess that effortless gift for weaving story lines, themes, and character studies together in just the right way, until a plot emerges fully developed. Like magic. Some writers can do this without breaking a sweat. I am not that writer. […]
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