Category: Contemporary Women Writers
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. […]
Random Nuggets for Writerly Wranglings
I’m still a newish author, with much to learn, but I’ve picked up a few things in the last six years and four books, random nuggets for writers wherever they’re at in their writerly wranglings. Let me share! For the newbie writer– It’s great to have a fantastic scenario for your story, but your characters […]
How Today’s Savvy Schemers Are Scamming New Authors
ARE THE STARS OUT TONIGHT…OR JUST IN WRITERS’ EYES? By Christina Hamlett Less than 72 hours after my latest UK cozy mystery went on the market, an effusive greeting popped up in my email: “A LITTLE REVENGE IN ROBIN HOOD’S BAY is the best of the best in literary gems with its irresistible mix of […]
Cowboys, Rodeos, and a Stray Dog
By Nan Reinhardt I have to confess that I panicked when my publisher Jane Porter asked me to move from River’s Edge, my little town on the Ohio River to Marietta, Montana. I mean, holy schnikeys! Frankly, I’d never been to the West before and I knew nothing about cowboys. Oh, I’d spent lots of […]
Inspired By, Not About
By Barbara Viniar “…She opened the bag of chocolate kisses her mother had insisted on buying her…and somehow life did feel a little easier.” That must be where I get it from, I thought as I wrote yet another scene in which Fannie indulges her sweet tooth. And then I had to laugh at myself. […]
Meditations from a Walmart Parking Lot
By Sarah May I wake to the sound of an engine revving, bass thumping. Groggy light streams in around the shades from the window at the foot of the bed. The jostling of shopping carts comes next, metal scraping against metal. Just another morning at a Walmart parking lot. After I make my coffee and […]
On Writing Scabmuggers
By Yvonne Martinez “Someday Mija, you’ll learn the difference between a whore and a working woman.” The words my sex worker grandmother told me that shaped my life. It was 1950’s Salt Lake, I was seven years old, and she had just come back from organizing a labor action. Salt Lake tavern owners brought in […]
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