Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Authors Interviewing Characters: Iris Mitlin Lav
A Wife in Bangkok by Iris Miltin Lav (September 8, She Writes Press) is a beautiful tale of one woman who dropped everything for a journey across the globe. It’s 1975, and Crystal is doing her best to be a “good wife” for her family. However, when her husband’s job relocates her family to Thailand, she finds betrayal and isolation among the beauty. Fighting intense loneliness and buffeted by a series frightening and shocking […]
How Writing And Acting Overlaps
A few years ago, I walked to the first day of rehearsal for a play. I had not recognised the building from the address, but as I got closer the sense of place was overwhelming. The church rooms near the back of Highbury Corner used to house the nursery school I attended when I was […]
Do You Have The Courage To Put Your Life On Paper?
Courage is Fear Walking. I was in Italy with my son Francis in 2002. He was 16 at the time and in private school. From first grade through the twelfth grade the students were taught Latin. It’s one of those subjects that can help you in a spelling bee but otherwise not useful in daily […]
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 […]
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