Tag: women writers
Authors Interviewing Characters: Rania Hanna
THE JINN DAUGHTER A stunning debut novel and an impressive feat of storytelling that pulls together mythology, magic, and ancient legend in the gripping story of a mother’s struggle to save her only daughter Nadine is a jinn tasked with one job: telling the stories of the dead. She rises every morning to gather pomegranate […]
EXCERPT: All You’ll See Is Sky: Resetting a Marriage on an Adventure Through Africa
All You’ll See Is Sky: Resetting a Marriage on an Adventure Through Africa Despite having everything she could ask for, Janet Wilson couldn’t shake a sense of emptiness in her life—or her desire to return to the continent of her birth. After much back-and-forth, she and her husband reached an agreement: they would embark on […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Maryann Lesert
Land Marks, A Novel by Maryann Lesert Book Summary: Tired of watching Michigan’s forests devastated by fracking as leaders refuse to act on climate change, four eco-minded students, a few seasoned activists, and some wildly creative locals stand together to say, “No more!” In the river-crossed north woods of Michigan, Kate, Brett, Sonya, and Mark, […]
How Family and Regional History Shaped the Narrative for Warrior on the Mound
How Family and Regional History Shaped the Narrative for Warrior on the Mound By Sandra W. Headen The inspiration for my historical middle grade novel, Warrior on the Mound, started with adoration for my maternal grandfather, Arthur Moore. He was a sharecropper, a jack of all trades, superintendent of Sunday School at the church his […]
The Path to Publishing Can Be Anything but Dull! By Diane Bator
The Path to Publishing Can Be Anything but Dull! By Diane Bator I found my previous publisher through an agent I was introduced to by one of the agent’s readers. We happened to be in a critique group together and I asked her to read my book and give me some feedback. I had no […]
Crones and Queens: Inspiration for When the Ocean Flies
Crones and Queens: Inspiration for When the Ocean Flies I’ve written in other places about the ways in which finding my biological parents inspired and influenced the writing of When the Ocean Flies. I’m an adoptee from what’s known as the Baby Scoop Era—post World War II to the early 1970s—during which time millions of […]
On Writing UNNIE by Yun-Yun
UNNIE by Yun-Yun Throughout my childhood, school assignments frequently probed into our aspirations for future professions. Almost mechanically, I would list two options: teacher and writer. However, these choices were made without much fervor. At the time, my understanding of the professional world was limited, and my career aspirations were merely reflections of my childhood […]
Creating Characters in Springtime
Creating Characters in Springtime by Rachel Dacus It’s the end of the rainy season here in northern California, and walking through hills newly covered in green, the air tasting of abundance, lends me creative energy. I call it my springtime writing effect. It’s a good time to start a new book and conjure new characters. […]
The Scandalous Origins of a Faux, Fascinating Life
THE SCANDALOUS ORIGINS OF A FAUX, FASCINATING LIFE by M J Robotham In hindsight, it does seem odd that I’ve chosen to frame my writing of a feisty, tenacious and independent woman entirely within chapters devoted to men. The life of Ruby M Devereaux is laid out in twelve episodes, weaved through the relationship of […]
SAD SACKED: Excerpt
Coming out in June The last person Liz Alterman expects to hear from during her Thanksgiving prep is her husband, Rich. He never calls from his job at a busy Manhattan newsroom. And he never will again, because he’s just been laid off. Two months later, Liz is downsized, too. At first, Rich is enchanted […]
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