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Inspiration for Secrets of Flowers by Sally Page
By Sally Page Hello Women Writers, My discovery that the Titanic was ‘a ship full of flowers’ led to a novel that was five years in the writing. The Secrets of Flowers is a contemporary tale of Emma, a young widow, interwoven with the true story of Violet, a stewardess who worked on the Titanic. A stewardess who survived the sinking […]
Pondering My Aviation Memoir After Three Fatal Plane Crashes
By Shirley M. Phillips One of the hardest tasks for me in finishing my memoir How Not to Fly an Airplane was choosing a title and cover. Although I suspect this is a challenge for many authors, for me it was compounded by the fact that my debut memoir is about my forty years of flying airplanes and teaching others how to fly. Although I […]
Mining My Own Experiences to Create a Cult
By Alexandria Faulkenbury As an author about to publish my debut novel, I’m often asked about the inspiration for the story. And at this point in the roller coaster that is publishing a book, I have a standard answer: I’ve always been interested in cults, so I wanted to write about one. But that’s only […]
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome to Manifest Abundance as an Author
By Betsey Kulakowski Imposter syndrome is something many authors — even those of us with almost a dozen books on the shelf — suffer from. No number of accolades, awards or best-seller badges can drive out the demons when you lack the feeling of being worthy. The key to building lasting confidence in your writing […]
From Classroom Stories to International Success: My Writing Journey
By Renee Ryan Who knew that making entertaining classroom content would launch a career in writing fiction? As a high school teacher juggling Economics, American Government, and Latin, I faced a daily challenge: keeping teenagers awake through subjects that weren’t exactly on their “most thrilling” list. My secret weapon? Stories. Instead of droning on about […]
Jill Amy Sager: On Writing
According to my cousin Deena, I’ve lived my life unencumbered by traditional expectations. When she mentioned this about thirty years ago, I didn’t relate to her observation, although looking back, this lack of self-awareness is hard to believe. I know that being born with a physical disability has had something to do with my ability […]
Finding My Way Through the Dark: On Substack
By Beth Kephart The Substack experts have advice for those seeking to carve out a place on this online platform that offers authors a chance to build both a newsletter and an audience. How to convert non-paying subscribers to paying ones via the strategic use of paywalls. How to write less and earn more. How […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Patsy C. Robertson
A CONCOCTION OF LIES Yvonne Hollister is a wealthy, older woman who has led a privileged life in the US and Belize. But she’s suffering from chronic depression after the unexpected deaths of her immediate family members. She’s failed in-patient and outpatient therapies and is now a functional addict hooked on both prescription drugs and […]
Interview with Casey Mulligan Walsh, author of The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared
Interview by Morgan Baker If you read “The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared,” and you should, it may seem like the memoir is about Casey Mulligan Walsh’s son Eric’s untimely death in a single-person car accident when he was 20 and Casey’s grief. While that is most definitely part of it, […]
Writing The Woven Memoir by Rebe Huntman
How to let go and allow the threads of your story find one another by Rebe Huntman When I attended graduate school for creative nonfiction in the early 2000s, writing that diverged from linear narrative was often looked at with suspicion, as if the writer was intentionally trying to be circuitous because they were incapable […]
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