Category: Contemporary Women Writers
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 […]
Writing Political Satire In ‘Interesting Times’
When I first had the idea for a satirical novel set in the near future the world was relatively sane. I happily imagined a post-politics system of government where nations are run by randomly selected citizens, just like jury service. The self-evident truth that politicians are the last people you want in charge of anything […]
Tell Your Story—When Life Becomes Myth
By Cerridwen Fallingstar In 1975, when I was twenty-two, working as a journalist for a feminist newspaper, my editor came in and said, “There’s a witch on trial for fortune-telling.” My hand shot up; “I’ll take that story!” And so my life of growing up in a scientific household where all religion was held in […]
Why I Love The “Outsider” In Fiction
I was an only child on a block of big families. The daughter of immigrants in an All-American town. A hippie-type in an era of the preppie look. It’s no wonder I gravitated to books and writing. I was an outsider in my world. I needed a place of belonging. Stories provided that. I never […]
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