Category: On Writing
Raquel V. Reyes, author of the Caribbean Kitchen Mystery series, interviews Alma Diaz, Miriam Quiñones’ BFF
Raquel V. Reyes, author of the Caribbean Kitchen Mystery series, interviews Alma Diaz, Miriam Quiñones’ BFF. About the book: CALYPSO, CORPSES, AND COOKING It’s time for a savory soirée—but something sinister is stewing—in Raquel V. Reyes’s second delightful Caribbean Kitchen mystery, perfectly delicious for fans of Mia P. Manansala. Fall festivities are underway in Coral […]
The Enduring Appeal of the Victorian Sensation Novel
The Enduring Appeal of the Victorian Sensation Novel By Mimi Matthews My new historical romance The Belle of Belgrave Square is my homage to Victorian sensation novels with a dash of fairytale sweetness. Filled with sinister secrets, locked rooms, and an ever-present sense of danger, it contains all the deliciously suspenseful romantic elements that kept […]
Why Women Readers Love Detective Parrott
Why Women Readers Love Detective Parrott by Saralyn Richard The past several decades have seen a big trend in detective fiction toward strong female protagonists, and, as a person who devours such books, I have to give a resounding hurrah. V.I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum and even going back to Miss Marple and Nancy Drew—I’ve […]
Feminist Author Duo Merges the Personal and Political in a Gripping Domestic Violence Novel
Feminist Author Duo Merges the Personal and Political in a Gripping Domestic Violence Novel Evelyn Anderton and Pearl Wolfe, co-authors of Walk Out the Door While working together in the 1990s at Womenspace, an agency working to end domestic violence, we learned why our women didn’t walk out the door from violent relationships sooner or […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Brieanna Wilkoff
Authors Interviewing Characters: Brieanna Wilkoff I’ll Be There for You Rae Ballester loves movie musicals and—thanks to her dad—’80s rock. Since he died a year ago, his favorite music helps keep his memory alive. Struggling to move on, Rae keeps her head down and earbuds in, but shunning the world has cost her even her […]
On Writing Peak Beyond Peak: Transcribing Isobel Wylie Hutchison’s Lost Essays
A collection of lost essays by one of Scotland’s most incredible yet forgotten women, Isobel Wylie Hutchison, has now been published in book form with a wonderful introduction and afterword by Hazel Buchan Cameron, the woman who spent eight years collecting and transcribing the work. This is a landmark moment in Scottish culture, history and women’s […]
Raising Awareness of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery through Fiction
Girl Out of Sight by psychological suspense author, Helen Matthews, is published this week by Darkstroke Books. Helen is an ambassador for the British anti-slavery charity, Unseen UK and has written about modern slavery and human trafficking in her fiction. She explains why she’s passionate about raising awareness of slavery-related crimes and why fiction has […]
My Writing Process By Barbara Rubin, author
My Writing Process By Barbara Rubin, author More Than You Can See “Write a book,” my friend told me. Impossible! I wasn’t a writer, or was I? But the seed was planted, and my mind began compiling ideas and ways to tell the story. Why was I thinking about doing it? I never wanted to […]
A forgotten dream realized: My path to writing The Antidotes: Pollution Solution
I am a dreamer by nature. As the daughter of Egyptian immigrant parents who happened to be good at math and science and as someone who wanted to help people, I decided in high school that I wanted to be a medical doctor in Africa. While an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins I discovered the field […]
Two Extraordinary Women Who Inspired One Woman’s War
Two Extraordinary Women Who Inspired One Woman’s War by Christine Wells I saw my first James Bond film at the age of seven. We were having a family holiday in Sydney, Australia, and Mum left my brother and me with Dad while she enjoyed a well-earned day to herself. Instead of taking us to the […]
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