Category: Women’s Books and Writings
Q and A with BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD
Barbara Taylor Bradford, OBE is one of the world’s best loved storytellers. Her 1979 debut novel, A Woman of Substance, ranks as one of the top-ten bestselling books of all-time, with more than 30 million copies in print. To date, she has written 35 novels — all bestsellers on both sides of the Atlantic. Master Of His […]
In Conversation With Ellen Langer, Mother Of Mindfulness
I came across Ellen Langer’s research online, in a NY Times article What if Age Was Nothing But A Mind Set? My first reaction to the headline was skeptisicm. But, as I often do when something makes me feel uncomfortable, I decided to read. The article described her landmark 1979 “counterclockwise” study in which elderly men lived for a […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Patricia Harman
Patricia Harman spent over thirty years caring for women as a midwife, first as a lay-midwife, delivering babies in cabins and on communal farms in West Virginia, and later as a nurse-midwife in teaching hospitals and in a community hospital birthing center. Though she loved caring for women and infants, she recently retired to write […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING THEIR CHARACTERS: Eliza Graham author of The Lines We Leave Behind
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING THEIR CHARACTERS: Eliza Graham author of The Lines We Leave Behind Interview with Maud Knight on board a Halifax bomber heading for Yugoslavia, March 1944. Why are you shivering, Maud? I’m flying out to carry out an operation with the Partisans. It’s cold in this Halifax — it’s a military aircraft with […]
Deborah Batterman Interview
Deborah Batterman is the author of Just Like February (a novel), Shoes Hair Nails (short stories), and Because my name is mother (essays). She is a Pushcart nominee, and her award-winning stories and essays have appeared in anthologies as well as print and online literary journals. A native New Yorker, she has worked over the years as a writer, editor, and teaching artist. […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING THEIR CHARACTERS; Amy Blumenfeld
Interview with Becca Scardino from THE CAST, by Amy Blumenfeld Becca, thank you for taking the time to chat with us. My pleasure! Thanks for having me. So, how does it feel to have a book written about your group of friends? Surreal. Honestly, I laughed the first time Amy approached us with the idea. […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Jacqueline Sheehan
In the novel, The Tiger in the House, Hayley, a six year-old girl, is the survivor of a triple homicide. Due to her age, but more importantly the trauma, she is unable to give Delia, a child protection worker, any information that would find Hayley’s parents or information about the violent crime. The author, Jacqueline […]
Interview with Louise Miller, author of The Late Bloomers’ Club
Interview with Louise Miller, author of The Late Bloomers’ Club By Jennifer S. Brown If your mouth watered as you read of the amazing pies made by Livvy in The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living, then you won’t be surprised to hear that the book’s author, Louise Miller, is a pastry chef in real […]
Interview with Ann Hazzard
Ann Hazzard, Ph.D. is a retired clinical psychologist who worked mostly with children and families. Along with two colleagues, Marietta Collins, Ph.D. and Marianne Celano, Ph.D., she recently published her first book, Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice (Magination Press, 2018). The book follows two families – one White, one […]
BEING AGENTED IRL – Part Three
A Twenty-Five-Question Interview Published as a Five Part Series Part One Part Two | Hosted by MM Finck | | Anonymously Answered By Agented Authors* with Varying Publishing Career Durations and Successes from Debut to Bestselling and Represented by Multiple Literary Agencies of Varying Sizes | QUESTION ELEVEN Historically, how many story ideas do you […]
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