Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Authors Interviewing Characters: Susie Orman Schnall
By Susie Orman Schnall, author of We Came Here to Shine We Came Here to Shine is uplifting historical fiction featuring two bold and ambitious women who navigate a world of possibility and find out what they’re truly made of during a glorious summer of spectacle and potential… Gorgeous Vivi is the star of the […]
Interview with Maggie Humm
Interview with Maggie Humm, author of Talland House Talland House takes Lily Briscoe the artist character from the confines of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. Set between 1900 and 1919 in picturesque Cornwall and war-blasted London, the novel tells Lily’s emotional journey in becoming a professional artist: her love-life, mourning her dead mother, as a […]
Writing Into The White Heat
Dare you see a soul at the white heat? Is Emily Dickinson’s first line and title of her 1862 poem. The soul; a passion so intense it burns white, hotter than the fire itself. The passion, for me, is writing. My words when I get them on the page are unfinished, they are imperfect, they […]
Creating a New Home for Readers—and Myself
Many years ago, while writing my first novel, Each Vagabond by Name, I obsessed over every detail of character and story, making sure I got everything exactly right. I spent weeks researching a backstory for bartender Ramsy, ensuring that the way he was injured in the Vietnam War was realistic, moving, and thematically significant. I […]
Inspiration for A Taste of Sage By Yaffa S. Santos
We are living in times where many of us could use the perfect distraction. Times where many of us are returning to the kitchen to experiment, or possibly doing it for the first time. Times when there are many days when all we could use is a fun, romantic story and a laugh. None of […]
WRITE LIKE NOBODY’S JUDGING: THE IMPOSTER SYNDROME AND HOW I FIGHT IT
Unless you’re some kind of a narcissist, you have at some point or the other heard a little voice within yourself going, “Psst! You don’t have what it takes to do what you’re doing. You’re a fraud and everyone knows it!” Call it what you will – your inner critic, plain underconfidence or its fancy […]
Beneath The Fig Leaves: An Excerpt
As a child, books fascinated me; intrigued by their stories I often slipped into their world. If words and stories could make me feel so many different things, then I, too, wanted to write, to make others feel the same sense of excitement and wonder. My curiosity and imagination were relentless, as far as I […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Donna Hermans
Donna Hemans interviews Plum, who, in her novel, Tea by the Sea, spends seventeen years searching the daughter taken from her at birth. Tell us a little about yourself. My name is Plum Valentine. I live in Brooklyn with my husband and two daughters, and work as a lab technologist. Tell us a little about […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: Mary Helen Fein
Conversation Helen Breakstone, Sixteen-year-old heroine of “Stitching a Life,” and author Mary Helen Fein Helen and I met at Katz’s Deli on Houston Street in New York’s Lower East Side. Turned out we both love Pastrami sandwiches, and of course Katz’s is the best. It was easy to spot her in her long skirt and […]
Happiness in the Time of Covid-19, Climate Change, Violent White Supremacy, etc.
Perhaps surprisingly, a season of unrelentingly grim news is the perfect time for a serious discussion of both personal and collective happiness. That is because genuine happiness is the opposite of a self-indulgent quest for pleasure. Rather, deep inner happiness leads to thriving, performing at our best, and greater compassion – along with a much-needed […]
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