Category: Contemporary Women Writers
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 […]
My Path to Publication: A Long and Winding Road
I was probably eight when I discovered I could lose myself in words, and from there it wasn’t long till I hunkered down in my bedroom and devoured every novel my mother owned because I’d already torn through every age-appropriate book available to me. She eventually opened a Book-of-the-Month Club account just so she could […]
Drawing Inspiration from Life
When I started writing my first novel almost twenty years ago I had no idea what direction my writing would take. Initially Slur had a chic lit feel to it but as I headed towards the halfway stage I felt that the novel wasn’t really going anywhere. I put it to one side for a […]
The Write Cocktail for Your Book
There’s doubt that Ernest Hemingway actually said, “Write drunk and edit sober.” He denies that he ever mixed his pleasure with his work. He was a professional, and writing was his work. Writing drunk, Hemingway alluded, was something only William Faulkner did. Twentieth century author shade aside, the accuracy of the quote is just a […]
How To Handle Feedback On Your Writing
Let’s be honest here and say the only feedback a writer really enjoys getting is along these lines: I’m in awe of how clever you are and I wouldn’t change a word. But… We all know that feedback is vitally important. Every writer needs it. Even the Stephen Kings and Ann Tylers of this world. […]
The Writing of Hunting the Devil
When I decided to celebrate my sixtieth birthday in Africa, I didn’t realize the culmination of my life-long love affair with Tarzan would result in my book Hunting the Devil. As I made plans, I asked my son if he’d accompany me, and he replied with the ultimate teenage endorsement: “I guess so.” With this […]
A Letter To My Unpublished Self
Dear Andie, Wow, who knew writing a letter to your unpublished self would be so hard? I’m feeling many things as I sit at my computer and think back on your life as an unpublished writer. Immediately I’m tearing up, and there’s a lump in my throat. Why? Because little one, the next ten years […]
Acting And Writing
Tina Sloan is best known for her twenty-six-year role on CBS’s soap The Guiding Light and as the author of Changing Shoes: Getting Older – Not Old – with Style, Humor and Grace based on her autobiographical one-woman show. The Changing Shoes book release coincided with the launch of the show in New York, which went on to grace stages across […]
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