Category: Contemporary Women Writers
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, […]
10 Published Authors Share Their Best Writing Advice
By Marissa DeCuir The writer’s life can be creatively fulfilling and packed with possibility — and it can also be arduous, frustrating, and downright lonely. Sometimes you just need another writer friend (or ten!) who gets it, has been there, and can give you that little bit of encouragement or great piece of advice that […]
What If Your Sister Wrote A Novel And It Sold More Copies Than Yours?
What if your sister wrote a novel and it sold more copies than yours? I’m sure you love your sister – of course you do! – but how would you feel if she suddenly decided to start writing novels when that has always been your territory? And what if her debut received better reviews and […]
Jerusalem as a Second Language, by Rochelle Distelheim: Excerpt
While her father was raised as an Orthodox Jew, Rochelle’s mother saw her Judaism as interesting, but not necessary. “She loved the music, the food, the heavy devotion to education and family,” Rochelle explains. “As a fallout, I knew I would never marry out of the religion, but my husband and I were contented High […]
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