Category: Contemporary Women Writers
April: Reading With Rochelle Weinstein
Hello Readers & Friends, Is it just me or is time flying? I’m heading into May wondering where did April go? Did you have any rain for those promised May flowers? Here in Miami we’ve had unseasonably cooler temperatures (not much of a drizzle). The breezy days meant balcony reads spent flipping through pages. This […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Rachel Paris
“Rachel Paris comes blazing onto the scene with this pulse-pounding whodunit crime thriller. This is a claustrophobic, unpredictable, must-read psychological thriller with a banger of an ending.” — Best Thriller Books “See How They Fall is an artfully plotted thriller that masterfully delivers unexpected twists to keep readers hooked until its satisfying conclusion.” — Books […]
My Life’s a Beach
By Deb Richardson-Moore I have lived my best life on beaches. Oh, there were long stretches in between, but I endured them by looking ahead or behind to times on those wide stretches of sand and the sometimes gentle, sometimes turbulent waves of the mighty Atlantic. I have always resided in upstate South Carolina, so […]
CHASING SHADOWS: How a Real-Life Mystery Inspired a Co-Written Novel
By A.C. Adams My wife and creative partner, Christina Adams, and I met in San Diego in our early twenties. She had just returned from a tour in India and Europe as the lead singer of Vrindavan, a world music ensemble. I was the composer and book writer for an original rock opera, An Eye […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Diane Papalia Zappa Interviews the Love of her Life
When Bob and Diane met, it was love at first sight. For both of them. In her memoirs, The Married Widow: My Journey with Bob Zappa and its companion piece, Dear Bobby: My Grief Journey, Diane describes the evolution of their relationship from their meeting in 1986 to their marriage in 2015 and his passing […]
Six Things I Learned Watching Outlander
By Valerie Taylor, author of the Venus Bixby Mystery Series Raise your hand. Have you ever said, “The book was better than the movie”? When it comes to Outlander (book by Diana Gabaldon), I’m in no position to compare one format to the other. I am not one of the more than 50 million people […]
The Book Club For Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick, EXCERPT
The Book Club For Troublesome Women “This is a novel about ambitious women and the mentors that inspired them to excellence . . . Bostwick carves an unforgettable path for her characters.”–Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Good Left Undone Margaret Ryan never really meant to start a book club . . . or a feminist revolution in […]
There Is No Spoon
By Barbara Bos June 27, 2024 I’m not sure if I’m ready for this. I’ve just sat down in my window seat, glancing outside at the plane’s wing. Beyond that, Santiago de Compostela’s airport is covered in fog. I should have chosen a better seat. Wings should give you a better perspective, but sometimes they […]
Good Thing I was a Lawyer First
By Lori B. Duff I don’t believe in fate. To believe in fate requires me to believe that free will is an illusion, that our choices only serve something predetermined. Actions have consequences. Now that I’m in my mid-fifties, I’ve had a lot of time to make a lot of choices and suffer (or celebrate) […]
No matter what you say, I am By Pamela Fagan Hutchins
By Pamela Fagan Hutchins Many of you, like me, wrestle with the question of whether you “deserve” to be something. A parent. A computer scientist. An athlete. Or in my case, a writer. Whether I am a good enough writer. Whether I am really even a writer at all or just some Karin Slaughter wannabe. […]
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