Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Character Interview – Erica Miner
Violinist turned author ERICA MINER interviews her character Julia Kogan. About Staged for Murder In this third novel in Erica’s “Opera Mystery” series, young violinist Julia heads to the San Francisco Opera with her significant other, Larry, and their five-year-old daughter, Rachel. Julia is under inordinate pressure, replacing ailing concertmaster, Ben, who has suffered serious […]
My Long and Winding Road to Publication
It’s been a long and winding road from the time I first started journaling about the sudden death of my best friend’s twelve-year-old son, Brendan, until the day my novel, Winter of the Wolf, was published. “Long” equating to eighteen years, and “winding” because nothing about it was straight forward. At the time of Brendan’s […]
Excerpt of EDGE OF THE MAP by Johanna Garton
Voted a “must-read of 2020” by REI’s Uncommon Path Magazine, Johanna Garton’s Edge of the Map is the story of Christine Boskoff, one of the world’s top alpinists and a trailblazing record holder who overcame challenge after challenge… until she and her partner, renowned climber Charlie Fowler, disappeared. The story is equal parts climbing history, […]
Writing What You Know…With a Twist
By Rebecca Tucker When I tell friends what my upcoming novel, Secrets My Mothers Kept, is about, they inevitably respond with “So, it’s about your life!”, to which I respond, “Not exactly.” I don’t blame them for thinking so, however. After all, writers are often told to ‘write what you know’ and it’s true that, […]
How I Made Dreaded Book Marketing Fun
I was at a low. I’d just broken up with my literary agent after three years, and it felt as if my publishing dreams would never come true. I couldn’t sleep. I was cranky. When The Secret by Rhonda Byrne was published in 2006, I didn’t read it but at 2am one night the Netflix […]
How Medium.com Has Helped Me Build My Author Platform
by Karen DeGroot Carter When I stumbled across Medium.com during a random Google search 10 months ago, I had no idea it would soon provide a new home for my writing and introduce me to thousands of other writers and potential new readers. I also didn’t know that by the end of the next 10 […]
Life and Other Shortcomings: Excerpt
LIFE AND OTHER SHORTCOMINGS: EXCERPT Life and Other Shortcomings is a collection of linked short stories that takes the reader from New Orleans to New York City to Madrid, and from 1970 to the present day. The women in these twelve stories make a number of different choices: some work, others don’t; some stay married, some […]
Unforgettable Endings: Finishing Your Novel
What part of writing your novel challenges you most? For some it is deciding where to begin or how to establish the characters and setting. And who hasn’t struggled with getting rig of slog in the center? But a challenge all writers have in common is bringing it all to a conclusion. After spending countless […]
Inspiration Behind Heir To Malla
I was the girl who had her nose in a book throughout childhood. It all started with my grandmother’s stories. I spent a few weeks every summer at my grandparents, and she would regale me with stories during mealtimes. She was a remarkable storyteller and would weave a beautiful tapestry of mythological tales and mighty […]
Art And Science: Two Sides Of The Same Coin
Annette Libeskind Berkovits It was the poetic randomness of the cosmos that threw me into a terrifying whirl on November 12, 2014. My perfectly healthy adult son suffered a devastating hemorrhagic stroke. I had to do everything in my power to keep myself from falling apart. Sitting for hours in waiting rooms and hospital corridors […]
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