Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Unsung Heroes and Heroines of the Home Front: Working in Air Raid Precautions by Susanna Bavin
Unsung Heroes and Heroines of the Home Front: Working in Air Raid Precautions by Susanna Bavin ‘Put that light out!’ Most of us instantly associate those words with life on the home front during the Second World War. Many of us probably picture Warden Hodges from Dad’s Army. Yes, the ARP wardens did patrol the […]
Laughing About it One Day By Courtney Deane
Laughing About it One Day By Courtney Deane Ask most of today’s top comedians – Ricky Gervais, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock – and they’ll tell you no topic is off limits. That’s there’s no such thing as “you can’t say that” or “that’s not funny.” In fact, one could argue they’ve made entire careers (or […]
Today is Global Holistic Wealth Day! On Starting A Global Movement By Keisha Blair, Mother of Holistic Wealth
Today is Global Holistic Wealth Day! On Starting A Global Movement By Keisha Blair, Mother of Holistic Wealth By Keisha Blair There have been some poignant moments on my journey to building a global movement for holistic wealth – a journey that has already impacted the lives of over 50 million people. The journey started […]
Interview with Nancy Burke
Apprentice House Press will release Nancy Burke’s first collection of short stories, Death Cleaning and Other Units of Measure, on May 1, 2024. This is Burke’s fourth book and first short fiction collection. Interview with author, Nancy Burke What inspired this collection? In August 2021, I read Hilma Wolitzer’s collection, Today a Woman Went Mad […]
Writing DAUGHTER OF A PROMISE
Some people assume writing a third novel must be easier than writing the first, which is true to some degree only because one knows what to expect: that they are in for a long, winding, doubt-ridden journey. When I began drafting DAUGHTER OF A PROMISE I wasn’t sure what the challenges would be, only confident […]
Writing a Series, by Judith Keim
Writing a series… I’ve found that writing a series is both easier and harder than writing a stand-alone book. My longest series is ten books, my shortest, three books. With all series, the setting is very important, becoming like a character itself, an important piece of the glue that holds the books together. The reader […]
Writing Requirement: Have Fun
Writing Requirement: Have Fun by Saralyn Richard I have taught creative writing off and on for a long time—to high school students and to senior citizens, to aspiring authors who made writing their careers, and to leisure-time writers who were testing the waters of their talents. No matter who the learners were, the process was […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: María Alejandra Barrios Vélez
The Waves Take You Home In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges, the death of her grandmother brings a young woman home, where she must face the past in order to become the heir of not just the family restaurant, but her own destiny. […]
Beware the Tall Grass: A Mother’s Love, A Soldier’s Courage, A Writer’s Journey
Beware the Tall Grass: A Mother’s Love, A Soldier’s Courage, A Writer’s Journey I’ll never forget where I was when I got the idea for my debut novel Beware the Tall Grass. I was in the car with my husband on the kind of long road trip that takes you away from all your distractions […]
Excerpt: The Wedding Party by L. R. Jones
For a bride-to-be and her fiancé, secrets and lies make this a killer celebration in this psychological suspense. Carrie and Oliver. A couple completely in love and the hosts of a wedding to remember at Colorado’s legendary Stanley Hotel. This is Carrie’s fairy tale come true. Her fiancé, Oliver, is Mr. Tall, Dark, and Handsome; […]
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