Category: Contemporary Women Writers
My Publishing Journey, Heather Chavez
When I was a child, my first book was about a family of rabbits celebrating Christmas. Told in rhyme of course. On the back, I scribbled one word: Hallmark. Even back then, I wanted a publisher. My first paycheck came from a poem I wrote for a local newspaper in Kansas. It was about socks. […]
The Path Stays Rocky: Looking Back From Book Five
Any other job would get easier over time, but not writing books. With the February release of The Lucky One, my fifth novel, I’m coming clean on a question I get often. The question goes: Isn’t it easier now that you’ve done it a couple of times? It is. And it’s not. For the first […]
The Story Behind Secret Lives of Mothers & Daughters by Anita Kushwaha
If this article is published on January 28th it will coincide with the Canadian release of my novel Secret Lives of Mothers & Daughters. As I write, there is still an insulating week left between me and launch day, the day that the book child I’ve nurtured for years gets thrust into the wild. The […]
My Mother’s Last Words: Finish Your Writing
Jane Gilmartin On the day I turned 50, I found myself sitting at my first ever novel writing workshop at Grub Street in Boston. I had secured the last remaining spot in the class only the afternoon before, a gift from my husband. I remember surveying the other eleven faces around that table and feeling […]
The Brontë Myth: Why This Literary Family Continues to Inspire Writers Today
The Brontë Myth: why this literary family continues to inspire writers today I first “met” the Brontës when my mother read my younger sister and me Jane Eyre. My sister hid under the covers at the “romantic bits.” I hung over the edge of the top bunk to beg for another chapter. The story confused […]
Writing Romance, Facts and Myths
Before I get down to telling you why I write romance, I’m going to start by answering the question, why write at all? In my case, it was largely down to Mrs Thatcher. No, I wasn’t inspired by her, but her policies were definitely a catalyst. You see, only a couple of years before my […]
BEST WOMEN’S EROTICA OF THE YEAR
In Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 5, award-winning editor Rachel Kramer Bussel takes readers on an outrageous journey into the world of female fantasy and desire. These sexy stories offer up wild, hot and steamy tales from today’s top authors. You’ll be swept away by the sexiest business deal ever, break the rules […]
What’s In A Name? The story behind HUSBAND MATERIAL
What’s In A Name? The story behind HUSBAND MATERIAL Arguably, with its sassy cover and catchy name, HUSBAND MATERIAL comes off like the chick-lit book of everyone’s dreams. In fact, when I first pitched the idea for HUSBAND MATERIAL, my editor acquired the book promptly for one main reason: she’d actually been looking for a […]
On Being A Writer
When I dreamed of becoming a writer many, many years ago, I swung between it being an unachievable goal and imagining myself walking into bookshops and seeing my books on the shelves. However, all of that all got put aside as life took over. When I revisited my dream some forty years later, with the […]
How Important is Self-Care for Writers?
At a recent networking event I was asked by a new writer how I managed my mental and physical health when I was locked in my writing cave for hours on end. It was a great question and one I could thankfully answer with ease. If we rewind a couple of years I would have […]
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