Category: Contemporary Women Writers
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 […]
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 […]
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