Category: Contemporary Women Writers
To Raise a Novel By Barbara Josselsohn
“Congratulations!” a writer friend of mine exclaims when I tell her my third novel will debut this week. “You must be so excited. Another book baby!” I smile and thank her, nodding at this familiar comparison of books to newborns. Many, many writers I know liken the process of launching a novel to giving birth, […]
Three Tips On Writing Your Story by Annette Valentine
1. Enlighten The Path Ahead of You Seat yourself in darkness and you’ll not be able to do much of anything, let alone begin writing your story. To enlighten the path toward writing your story (personal or otherwise), ask yourself what flows naturally when you sit down to write. Beginning your story in your own […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Lisa Braxton
The fiery issue of urban gentrification is the steady beat thrumming beneath the surface of the novel, The Talking Drum. In 1972 the fictional city of Bellport, Massachusetts, is in decline with an urban redevelopment project on the horizon that promises to transform the dying factory town. Sydney Stallworth steps away from her law studies […]
Fighting Against Myself and My Past
Fighting Against Myself and My Past: The Story Behind “Saving Ruby King” By Catherine Adel West “You should write a book!” It was a comment made in passing at a friend’s wedding sparking the first wisps of inspiration that eventually became my debut novel “Saving Ruby King”. That statement shouldn’t have affected me so deeply, […]
Writing And Research: On Wilder Seas
Nikki Marmery is the author of On Wilder Seas, a historical novel inspired by the true story of Maria, the woman who sailed on the Golden Hind during Francis Drake’s circumnavigation voyage in 1579. I first read about Maria in a popular history book, seven years ago. Though details about her life are scarce, she […]
Silence Did Not Stop Me
Silence Did Not Stop Me Terry Sue Harms After writing a novel, I thought writing a memoir was going to be less challenging. Not easy, but I couldn’t imagine how a story that I already knew could possibly be more difficult to tell than the one I had made up. After all, I understood the […]
Writing Meaningfully about Trauma
Courtney Ramm is a successful professional dancer and choreographer whose upcoming memoir, “Eris Rising” (Acorn Publishing, Fall 2020) is a deeply personal tell-all about falling for a highly manipulative and dangerous man. Over the course of their relationship, Marcus leads Courtney down a long, dark rabbit hole, gaslighting her until she uproots her promising career […]
Launching New Ventures In A Pandemic
Launching new ventures in a pandemic—or how I found a way to expand my world when everything else was contracting. 2020 has certainly been a year of changes. We all saw our worlds turn inward and shrink down to their merest essence as we have huddled in our homes and stayed away from friends and […]
The Merriest Magnolia, An Excerpt
Home for the holidays has always meant cozy small-town traditions…but this year all that may change… Carrie Reed has always been known as her hometown Good Girl, yet she still loves Magnolia, North Carolina—after all, this is where her newly discovered sisters, Avery and Meredith, live. But Christmas is on its way and with it, […]
Being a Writer in 2020: Whitney Dineen
What in the sweet Jesus hell is going on with this year? I have never simultaneously felt like I was doing so much and so little at the same time. There have been days where the thought of getting out of bed was almost more than I could bear, and weeks where I didn’t even […]
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