Category: Contemporary Women Writers
On Bees and Writing
By Linda Avellar I knew nothing about bees when I started writing this story. I’ve been an amateur gardener at my home in Connecticut for years and always had great respect for bees and the good they do as pollinators. I don’t run and scream when a bee buzzes my head as I’m pulling weeds. […]
Publish a Book, Lose a Friend by Laura Bonazzoli
By Laura Bonazzoli We shared everything. Over bowls of thick soup in our favorite café, we’d swap recipes and healthcare tips and stories: her father’s drinking, my father’s rage, our siblings who’d died too young, the misogyny we’d had to overcome. And we were both writers. I’d published more— academic and technical works, dozens of […]
Befriending Betsy Excerpt
For readers who loved Marley & Me, a poignant memoir about cats, dogs, and what it means to forge a friendship—in life and in death—with a person you can never meet. Betsy Pauly died five years before Jen Braaksma knew she had even lived. Betsy was an artist and writer hailing from Minnesota, Texas, Missouri, and […]
Attract It All by Tsikki Thau: Exclusive Excerpt
Attract It All: The Real Secret to Manifestation Discover the transformative power of manifestation in this empowering guide by renowned spiritual mentor Tsikki Thau. Drawing from 30 years of dedicated practice, Tsikki Thau unveils the secrets to attracting your heart’s desires, offering a magical blend of ancient practices and modern techniques. With practical exercises and […]
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 […]
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