Category: Contemporary Women Writers
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; […]
Truth + Tall Tale = Falling Through the Night
Truth + Tall Tale = Falling Through the Night Featured first on https://lgbtqreads.com/ I’m pretty ordinary in most ways: middle class, awkward, bookish. I’m a mom and I live in a small city and I’m an omnivore. But some of my experiences have been a bit out of the ordinary: Giving up a child for […]
The Berlin Letters by Katherine Reay, Excerpt
THE BERLIN LETTERS Bestselling author Katherine Reay returns with an unforgettable tale of the Cold War and a CIA code breaker who risks everything to free her father from an East German prison. From the time she was a young girl, Luisa Voekler has loved solving puzzles and cracking codes. Brilliant and logical, she’s expected […]
CAROL J. CHUMNEY: ON WRITING
CAROL J. CHUMNEY: ON WRITING Author of The Arena: One Woman’s Story Over the years, my dreams were of public service. Serving as a Tennessee state legislator and Memphis City Councilwoman, I achieved that dream in some respects. I never dreamed of writing a book. Yet, during an election for higher office in 2012, a […]
The Secret Life of A Publishing Company Part II
The Secret Life of A Publishing Company Part II In my first post, I outlined why Jurcell Virginia and I set up Inkspot Publishing www.inkspotpublishing.com, and I promised a blueprint for setting up a publishing company. The steps are not sequential, and if you decide to go ahead, you will find yourself engaged in all […]
From Clichés to Complexity: Neda Aria’s Journey as Lilith Wilde in Reinventing Romance
From Clichés to Complexity: Neda Aria’s Journey as Lilith Wilde in Reinventing Romance I began my literary journey wrapped in the anonymity of a pen name back in Iran between ages 19 to 21, crafting what I now view as ‘cheesy, mass-pleasing, marketable YA fiction’. Those days, although successful, are like distant shadows to the […]
How to Write Outside Your Cultural Experience Without Harm
How to Write Outside Your Cultural Experience Without Harm By Paulette Stout As writers, we have great latitude when choosing what we create. And with diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging at the forefront for many in the creative community, our instinct should rightly be to answer the call in our work. But writing outside our […]
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