Category: Contemporary Women Writers
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 […]
An Interview with Tiffanie DeBartolo
An Interview with Tiffanie DeBartolo It’s never too late to become who we’re meant to be, or to summon the courage to develop into the person whom we desire to be. Indie record label owner and author Tiffanie DeBartolo’s newest novel, “Sorrow,” (Oct. 20, Woodhall Press) expertly examines this idea through the lenses of art, […]
Writing Challenges: Part I of III: Who Are You To Tell This Tale?
Who Are You to Tell This Tale? It took me a long time to love writing. When I first started out, my writer friends and I used to commiserate about how horrible it was, how hard it was to make ourselves sit in that chair, how we couldn’t wait to get something, anything, on the […]
The Best Character I Never Wrote—Unless You Count the Prologue and Epilogue
Her name was Kate, and she was eleven. She had a best friend named Emma, a father who was (still is, actually) a renowned oncologist, and a mother who vied with Florence Henderson (of the Brady Bunch) for Mother of the Year. Kate was dead from the moment I created her. She had long blond […]
A Strong Sense of Place
Should I have chosen an exotic location in which to set my new novel? Research can be done anywhere in the world (or at least, it could, pre-covid). Armed with a suitcase, laptop and my writing head firmly switched on, I set forth on a magical adventure to research my new book. But it was […]
Faking Insanity: Writing The Novel
Back in the days when I was first sitting down to write my novel, I’d read anything I could get my hands on that described how an author first got published. I was immediately drawn in, looking for clues how the author “made it.” I wanted to know the essence of that experience. I wanted […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Mary Helen Sheriff, author of Boop and Eve’s Road Trip
Authors Interviewing Characters: Mary Helen Sheriff, author of Boop and Eve’s Road Trip “…a heartwarming trek through the South as grandmother and granddaughter uncover secrets held for generations as well as confront family issues, all while having a little fun…A touching intergenerational romp…” —Kirkus Reviews Boop and Eve’s Road Trip by Mary Helen Sheriff is a […]
All In
My first book, Poetic License-A Memoir, was released in August. Publication day culminated a twenty-year quest to figure out who my father was to me over our long and complex relationship and to better define myself outside the shadow of his literary fame. The manuscript had been threaded through two full decades of my life, […]
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