Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Book Giveaway: Best & Worst Advice from My Super Model Mother
Best & Worst Advice from My Super Model Mother By Anna Murray Here’s my mom. Here she is again. And again. It must have been hard with her as your mom. I’ve heard that comment […]
Behind the Book – Bringing Amy Robsart to Life
I’d known for a long time that one of the historical mysteries I wanted to explore through fiction was the love triangle between Queen Elizabeth I, her favourite Robert Dudley and his wife Amy Robsart. It’s one of the most intriguing and enduring historical mysteries: Did Amy Robsart fall to her death in 1560 or […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING THEIR CHARACTERS: Fiorella De Maria
An Exclusive with Fr Gabriel I have always been intrigued by literary detectives and Fr Gabriel has been at the top of my list of sleuths I’d like to meet. English Benedictine and reluctant detective, Fr Gabriel has become a force to be reckoned with in a country struggling to settle down after the horrors […]
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Oksana Zabuzhko has been called a Ukrainian combination of Susan Sontag, Adrienne Rich and Rachel Maddow, and her novels have received international fame. Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex caused the biggest literary scandal in Ukraine in decades. Since its publication in 1996, it spent 10 years at #1 on the Ukraine’s bestseller list; has been translated […]
Writing When It’s Not All Roses And Rainbows
I sat at my computer last night. Really, just sat there. I opened the manuscript of the follow-up to Awakening on Purpose: Trusting the call. Zero motivation came to raise my fingers to the keys. I actually said to myself, “I’m depressed.” And then a strange thing happened. My self answered. “Yes. And?” I sat in […]
Barbara Sapienza, Why I Write
“The writer follows her hand,” Gabrielle Roth, creator of 5Rhythms Dance, tells us, just “as the singer surrenders to the song, the mother to the child.” Writing for me is a daily practice, a gateway, which like a Zen prayer gives me more space. But it’s the mechanics of writing that intrigues me. I follow […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Caroline England
Although I am still writing my ‘Caroline England’ psychological thrillers, I took on board the advice to ‘write what you know’, so I have used my career in the law as a backdrop for a new legal suspense series, written under the pen name Caro Land. The first, Convictions, was published in January of this […]
Are Writers Being Taught To “Dumb-Down” Their Technique For The Reader?
Are writers being taught to “dumb-down” their technique for the reader? I ask because, what is up with saying a story, chapter, or a section of a chapter has to be written from only one person’s point of view? When did that become “gospel?” For years, I’ve been reminded in classroom settings of this, preached at by […]
On writing: Jessica Winters Mireles
A guest post by Jessica Winters Mireles, Author of the novel, Lost in Oaxaca As a middle-aged woman of fifty-seven (or “Boomer” as my children mockingly refer to me lately) I’m arriving quite late to my career as a writer. Most of us were told that if we hadn’t published a novel by age thirty, […]
Esther Amini: Interviewing My Younger Self
Esther Amini, Author of: “Concealed”— Memoir of a Jewish-Iranian Daughter Caught between the Chador and America Interviewing my younger self… As a young child, born unto Iranian parents and growing up in the United States, what is your greatest fear? The sound of my voice. Why? My Persian father believes speech should be avoided at […]
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