Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Authors Interviewing Characters: Janice Deal
THE BLUE DOOR How much responsibility and guilt can a mother bear for a child who has done wrong? This is the question that haunts Flo when her daughter Teddy plans to visit after a long separation. The prospect of seeing Teddy brings back painful memories of Teddy’s troubled past–a young teen imprisoned for committing […]
Why was Agatha Christie almost expelled from the Detection Club?
By Kelly Oliver My new mystery series set in the late 1920’s and1930’s features the original London Detection Club, including founding members Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, and Gilbert Chesterton. The first in the series, The Case of the Christie Conspiracy just came out. The Detection Club is the stuff of literary legend—a gathering of the […]
One Step, One Story Leads to Another
By Julie Ryan McGue At age 48, I was sent for a breast biopsy. That singular event has been life-altering. First, it led to a five-year search for my birth parents, and then to a late-in-life writing career, one comprised of publishing nonfiction books, essays, blogs, and a regular column. Such is life. One step […]
The Perfect Rom-Com, by Melissa Ferguson, Excerpt
THE PERFECT ROM-COM, Melissa Ferguson “Melissa Ferguson delivers yet another sparkling, laugh-out-loud romance!” –RaeAnne Thayne, New York Times bestselling author She’s written dozens of smash-hit romance novels. Too bad no one knows it. Aspiring author Bryony Page attends her first writers conference bursting with optimism and ready to sell her manuscript with long-shot dreams of raising awareness for […]
Writing Female-Centric Thrillers: Helping Women Feel Seen in Commercial Crime Fiction
As a female author of commercial thrillers my main aim is for my stories to entertain. Yet it’s also important to me that they’re relatable and an honest reflection of society and the world seen through the eyes of women today. So how do you create a story that resonates emotionally with female readers, while […]
A writer’s Mindful Adventure Creating Children’s Books that Delight and Calm
By Annamarie Fernyak Today’s children have discriminating palates. I am not talking about their palates for sophisticated food (“Caviar or pate, anyone?”), because Cane’s chicken is overwhelmingly popular where I come from, and kids still love their chicken fingers. I am referring to children’s discriminating palates for entertainment media. Children are used to fast streaming, […]
In A Testy Exchange, Book Character Interviews Her Author
A TINY PIECE OF BLUE For fans of Kristin Hannah’s The Four Winds and Lisa Wingate’s Shelterwood comes a heartwarming historical novel following a homeless young girl as she struggles to survive during the Great Depression. Rural Michigan, 1934. During the throes of the Great Depression, thirteen-year-old Silstice Trayson finds herself homeless, abandoned by her parents after a devastating […]
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe by Marlene L. Daut : Excerpt
The essential biography of the controversial revolutionary and only king of Haiti. Henry Christophe (1767 – 1820) is one of the most richly complex figures in the history of the Americas, and was, in his time, popular and famous the world over. In The First and Last King of Haiti, a brilliant, award-winning Yale scholar unravels the still […]
Author Interviewing Characters: Author Maggie Anton Interviews Shifra
THE MIDWIVES’ ESCAPE After years of archaeological research and biblical studies, award-winning author Maggie Anton has created a historical novel filled with adventure, warfare, and romance, that is true to both Torah and to history. The Bible contains many extraordinary stories of a sometimes benevolent, sometimes vengeful deity, who guides the Israelites out of slavery, […]
Authors Interviewing Characters Gemma Tizzard, speaking to Grace O’Connell from Grace of the Empire State.
A daring young woman takes her brother’s place to risk her life in New York City. A breathtaking historical novel full of heart and hope, family and friendship, and the sacrifices we make for love… As the Great Depression bites, show dancer Grace’s Irish immigrant family can’t afford the rising rents, nor the medicine that her […]
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