Category: Contemporary Women Writers
How to Find Your Publishing Path
By Camille Pagán On a recent group coaching call, one of my clients asked if there was a particular trait most successful novelists shared. I didn’t blink before answering: “Flexibility.” Like nearly all things in life, publishing changes. Algorithms, publishers, agents, editors, readers, and marketing methods aren’t static. To stay in this business—which is how […]
Nineteen: A Memoir of Reckoning and Recovery by Leslie Johansen Nack: Excerpt
For fans of Stephanie Thornton-Plymale’s American Daughter and Cea Sunrise Person’s North of Normal comes Leslie Johansen Nack’s emotional follow-up memoir about her battle with addiction following a traumatic childhood—and her inspiring journey toward healing and happiness. In the mid-1970s, Leslie Nack’s family returned from sailing to French Polynesia and began the integration process into American life again, which […]
On Writing Always Hungry
Always Hungry was the book that I had to write. No longer could I be silent about my own lived experience in a larger body because (at the risk of making a bad dad joke) I realised that this story was bigger than me. Mine is a story of reclaiming my health, of discrimination, of […]
The Baby’s Cry, the Blank Page, and the Myth of the Writing Mother
By Caroline Lea I once tried to revise a sex scene while cooking dinner for my family. Reader, it was a disaster: the chicken was burned and had to be binned; the characters lost interest in each other. Everyone cried. In an ideal world, the mythical figure of the writing mother would also be an […]
Bridging the Past and Present: Writing Romance Rooted in History
By Shanna Hatfield Books have been a wonderful source of adventure for as long as I can remember. My mother shared her love of books with me, reading to me most every night as a young child. When I was old enough to read the books myself, my favorite stories were those that brought the […]
Song Over The Bones: Silence As Reclamation
By Melissa Meszaros Internet dating should not exist without a relationship jail. If you fail to comply with who you say you are, there should be consequences, a fraudulent misrepresentation suit, maybe. Technology upgrades, but lies stay the same. I work in public relations, a polishing job. I can take anyone’s half-formed thought and spin […]
Have Attitudes Towards Women Really Changed Since 1900?
Journalist Caroline McGhie got to explore Victorian attitudes to women’s rights, sexual freedom, religion, art and pornography when writing her debut novel The Sitter. But has anything changed since 1900? How a woman copes after she has been taken advantage of has long been a subject of interest for writers of women’s fiction. More recently […]
’How’s Your Book Doing?’ and Other Post-Publication Questions
By Lorraine Devon Wilke Every step in the process of birthing a book has a life of its own: Imagining the book. Writing the book. Editing the book. Querying the book. Not querying the book. Publishing the book. Celebrating the publishing of the book. Then marketing and promoting the book. And marketing and promoting the […]
Researching a Book in the Time of Covid, and What I Learned
By Pamela Toler One of the oddities of my career path as a writer of historical non-fiction is that I didn’t have the chance to do archival research for my first nine books. In some cases this was because I often had ridiculous deadlines, which did not leave time to hunker down in an archives […]
Author Karen Nelson interviews Lindsay Williams from The Sunken Town
THE SUNKEN TOWN If you admit one truth, what else will you have to acknowledge? Lindsay, a thirty-year-old California native, never gave much thought to being adopted. When she unexpectedly inherits her birth mother Claire’s farmhouse in Maine, she is plunged into a journey across the country and across the years into a lake of […]
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