Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Alex Hart
When Harper Stein, a feisty photo-journalist discovers a young girl left alone in a New York shopping mall, the last thing she wants to do is mind the child until her mom turns up. However, when no one comes to claim her, Harper is left wondering who the hell she belongs to. Determined not to […]
Nicola Pryce: Why I Write
I wrote my first book, The Adventures of the Ten Green Bottles, when I was ten. I can remember being totally absorbed when writing it, even obsessed. Each bottle had a very distinct character, a name, and an adventure that matched their personality. Some made it back to the wall, others were way-laid by dastardly […]
Kelly Oliver, On Writing Historical Fiction
I love reading historical mysteries—Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody, Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs, Rhys Bowen’s Georgiana Rannoch, Sujata Massey’s Perveen Mistry. Recently, I wrote my first historical mystery, Betrayal at Ravenswick, a WW1 mystery featuring file clerk turned spy, Fiona Figg. It’s 1917, the height of the Great War, and a suspicious South African war correspondent […]
Always A Bridesmaid
I grew up in a small town and love the dynamic of that sense of community that comes along with everyone being in your business. Always a Bridesmaid is part of the Getting Hitched in Dixie series, about a group of friends who grew up in a tiny town called Uncertainty, in Alabama. When I […]
Tania Crosse on Writing A Series
Tania Crosse, winner of Best Saga in the Romantic Novelists’ Association Awards 2020, talks to Women Writers I was delighted when Women Writers asked me to contribute to their online magazine. Thank you so much for inviting me! Being the first recipient of this new award means so much to me, especially being a special […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Suzanne Nugent
Suzanne Nugent interviews three mismatched frienemies – Leanne, Christina, and Nora – over Sunday brunch. Filled with heartwrenching scenes and witty prose, Susanne Nugent’s Brunch and Other Obligations explores the intricate dynamics of girlhood acquaintances who are forced to reconnect as women. This upbeat novel reminds readers that there’s hope for getting through the hard times […]
My Memoir Motivation
Over the years, I’ve attended writing workshops, seminars, classes, courses, lectures, TED talks, conferences, panels, virtual writing groups, as well as reading countless author interviews. After each one, I’d drive, walk, or bus it home, inspired, motivated, and thinking that I had something substantive to say. It would usually last until the following day when […]
Discovering Emma Koehler
Four generations of my family have lived in San Antonio. Though I claim it as my birth town, I grew up in Denver. At the time, everyone I knew was from Colorado, so when someone asked where I was from, I proudly said, “I was born in Texas.” There was something exotic about it back […]
Who Writes a Memoir?
Friends asked what inspired me to write a memoir. My son was blunter: “Mom who writes a memoir – it’s not normal.” Indeed, few of us write memoirs. Unless we are writers by profession or famous, I would venture to guess for most of us the route to inspiration is circuitous. I would like to […]
Moving Beyond Trauma by Ilene Smith
Moving Beyond Trauma by Ilene Smith In my early forties, after a career in banking and real estate financing, I returned to school for a master’s degree in mental health counseling. I truly had no idea that this path would lead me to my greatest passion in life thus far. During my internship to complete […]
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