Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Guns Under The Bed: Memories of a Young Revolutionary
The debut of my memoir, Guns Under the Bed: Memories of a Young Revolutionary, (Odyssey Books/AU), has been moved back from June 1 to September 1, 2020, because the bookstores where launch events were scheduled have had to close due to the pandemic. Disappointing, but given all that’s happening, it’s a small thing. Still, I’d […]
An Epidemic of Invisibility by Meghan Holloway
My recently published thriller, HUNTING GROUND, is dedicated to the women who have disappeared, to the women who have felt their vulnerability, and to the women who have been forgotten. I was plotting this story when Mollie Tibbetts went out for a run near her home in Brooklyn, Iowa, one evening in July of 2018 […]
10 Questions for a “Terrifyingly Blunt” Literary Agent By S.L. McInnis
The Helen Heller Literary Agency has been in business for over thirty years. Though based in Toronto, it’s a worldwide success story and it’s just as likely you’ll find Helen making deals in London or New York. Her hit clients include Shari Lapena, Gilly Macmillan, Linwood Barclay and others who regularly appear on the NYT and Sunday […]
How Studying Psychology Has Influenced My Writing
This is a ‘what came first – the chicken or the egg’ kind of question for me, or as my daughter asked me last week – the seed or the tree? Did my study of psychology influence my writing, or did my love of stories and characters develop into a love of psychology? Even as […]
A FEW THOUGHTS ABOUT ART AND WRITING
When I was seventeen my father gave me an autobiography called The Magic of a Line. It’s out of print now and the author Laura Knight, an English Impressionist artist, is relatively unknown in America. The book has sat on my bookshelf for years. I’ve always kept it despite many moves, partly because it was […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Avery Flynn
Avery Flynn interviews Hadley Donovan, the protagonist in her new rom-com, The Wedding Date Disaster, about snipe hunting, evil twins, and surviving family get-togethers. Giggles, slow dances, hot kisses and happy sighs, that’s The Wedding Date Disaster. It’s a romance about embracing yourself (warts and all) even when your life isn’t as picture perfect as […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Terri Boas
TWO SCOOPS, NOT THREE Briony, Natalie and Lauren have been best friends since school. Now in their thirties, their lives couldn’t be more different. Eternally single Briony is desperate to find ‘the one’, while Lauren, a singer onboard cruise ships, is having far too much carefree fun to even think about settling down with ‘Mrs […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: LIZA NASH TAYLOR
A sweeping Jazz Age tale of regret, ambition, and redemption inspired by true events, including Josephine Baker’s 1925 Paris debut in Le Revue Nègre. “Fasten your seatbelts…this is one fabulous book that will keep you turning pages.” —Nancy Thayer, New York Times bestselling author of Girls of Summer Listed in PARADE MAGAZINE’S 30 Best Beach […]
The Good, The Mediocre and The Ugly: On Reviews
Most writers will agree that when it comes to achieving the goal of having a novel published, the dream and reality do not quite correlate. From the outside, it looks amazing – and of course, in many ways it is – but what looks like a joyous time of champagne quaffing, great-review sharing and being […]
On Writing ONLY THE WOMEN ARE BURNING
It began under an elm tree at my pool. Like an explosion, this story burst onto the page with the words, “The women began to spontaneously ignite, bodies bursting into miniature mountains of flame across the suburban landscape…” I stared at these, my words. I mulled over them, fixated on them. They haunted me for […]
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