Category: On Writing
Readers Teach Me About My Novel Patterson House
Readers Teach Me About My Novel Patterson House I’ve dreamed of talking about my historical novel, Patterson House, with actual readers for years and now that it is in bookstores, I finally have the opportunity. I love the process of letting the work go into the world and seeing what it will become in the […]
Gifts from Fellow Writers Lift Author’s Spirit During the Holidays
Women Writers, Women’s Books post by Kim Cano: Last Christmas, my plans consisted of one thing: getting a mastectomy. I’d been diagnosed with the most aggressive form of breast cancer earlier in the year and had recently completed sixteen rounds of chemotherapy. The surgery had to be done four to six weeks after chemo ended, […]
Inspiration from the Past
Let me introduce myself. My name is Jody Herpin and I’m the author of my first published novel, Relative Consequences, released on March 12, 2022. I wrote another novel, Weather Permitting, but decided not to publish it at that time. I live in Metro Atlanta with my husband, Mike, and our Mini-Aussie, Bella. I enjoy […]
A Long Road to Publication for Jane Cawthorne’s Patterson House
A Long Road to Publication for Jane Cawthorne’s Patterson House The road to publication for Patterson House, my first novel, has been rocky. What is It about this story that drove me forward for the better part of two decades and through so many obstacles? I think it was the main characters. In Patterson House, […]
Amy Clipston: Writing Tips
Writing Tips By Amy Clipston People often ask me, “How do you work a full-time job and write books?” Since my mother raised me to have manners, I resist the urge to roll my eyes and instead sweetly reply with, “I just make it work.” Unlike many authors, I work full-time for a local government […]
On Writing Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty
I first became interested in the concept of work-family conflict as a college student. I knew I wanted to have a career and a family, and I was introduced to feminist scholarship analyzing the impact of the care burden on women. Feminist economists highlight the ways in which responsibility for care work at home disadvantages […]
On The Importance of Storytelling
By Melissa Payne Our stories are important and sharing who we are, where we come from, how we grew up is part of getting to know one another. Learning someone’s story helps us to understand, empathize and sometimes, do something to help others. When I wrote letters to raise money for children who had been […]
How the ‘Ripple of Awakening’ came to being by Ann-Marie Marchant
How the ‘Ripple of Awakening’ came to being by Ann-Marie Marchant The Ripple of Awakening was the book I craved when my life was being dismantled from all that I knew and perceived as ‘normal’. I was facing a divorce, which was excruciatingly painful, on the threshold of my spiritual awakening (SA) and to top […]
The Inspiration for Simply Be More
The Inspiration For Simply Be More Overnight in March 2020, all my work as a headline flautist was cancelled. For the first time in my entire career, my diary, normally packed full of wonderful concerts was completely clear. I knew this was a reset button. I could just sense that the world would never be […]
A Writer’s Journey By Susan Specht Oram
A Writer’s Journey: How I ended up being published By Susan Specht Oram In the fourth grade, when I wanted to be an author, my maternal grandmother, Gago, paid me one-dollar for every story I wrote. One day I handed in a tale about Caroline, who creeps into an attic and discovers a bloody rope […]
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