Category: On Writing
On writing Problem Solvers: 15 Innovative Women Engineers and Coders
Though I’ve written over thirty fiction titles, Problem Solvers: 15 Innovative Women Engineers and Coders (Chicago Review Press, September 2022) is my first non-fiction book. What a crazy and fun journey writing this book has been! From being a female engineer myself (as a chip designer at Motorola and Intel) to now authoring a book […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Suzanne Moyers
About ‘Til All These Things Be Done An…intensely gratifying page turner…Love, longing, and the hard persistence of hope shine in this debut novel. –Elizabeth Crook, author of Monday, Monday and The Which Way Tree Set within the unique but troubled history of ‘blacklands,’ Texas, during an earlier era of pandemic and social upheaval, ‘Til All […]
A Private Library
At the heart of my new novel, Must Read Well, are some 300 journals kept by the once-famous author Anne Taussig Weil. Weil’s single blockbuster, The Vengeance of Catherine Clark, was published in 1965, and in the forty-five years since (the book takes place in 2011), she has given up on writing novels, vanished from […]
Most Anticipated Indie Books of Fall
While the temperatures are getting cooler as fall approaches, these upcoming books are coming in hot! From epic historical fiction to sweeping romantic novels, don’t be surprised if these 12 most-anticipated indie reads wind up in your cart this fall! East of Troost by Ellen Barker In her touching and powerful debut novel, Ellen […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Amber Daulton
RYAN’S TEMPTATION Wrong place, wrong time. Now she’s running for her life. Beautician Chanel Leroc can wield a pair of scissors like nobody’s business. After she witnesses a murder and lands on a serial killer’s hit list, she has to figure out how to protect herself—and fast. The killer tracks her down, but her sexy […]
Roar Like A Goddess: Excerpt
“The result is an enlightening and empathetic guide to finding one’s inner strength.” ―Publishers Weekly The first female head of her 2,000-year-old Indian spiritual lineage, Shunya reinterprets and recontextualizes ancient teachings for modern times, empowering people everywhere to lead fearless, fulfilled and enlightened lives. A revolutionary revisioning of ancient India’s primary goddess archetypes, Roar Like a Goddess is a rallying cry for […]
Buck’s Pantry: Excerpt
Written with the pacing and thriller-esque buildup of Truly, Madly, Guilty by Liane Moriarty and the compassion and humor found in Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, BUCK’S PANTRY: A Novel by debut novelist Khristin Wierman (September 6, SparkPress) is a surprising and affecting story of polar opposite women overcoming their differences and finding hope in the power of their […]
Time Travelling: On Timelines in Memoir
Time Travelling Amy Turner “I’m dizzy,” the woman sitting across from me in my first writing workshop exclaimed after I finished reading the opening 15 pages of my memoir aloud to the class. I flushed with embarrassment and prayed that it had been the vividness of my description of the inciting incident—I was mowed down […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Ellen Barker
Ellen Barker’s provocative debut novel, East of Troost (September 6, She Writes Press), addresses the ever-present effects of racism in both the past and present. With an unnamed narrator as our eyes and ears into moments of Barker’s own life, East of Troost is an enlightening and thought-provoking read that encourages reflection on privilege and the environment created in its wake. Josie Fawcett […]
ON THE POWER OF FIRST PLACES
I was born in a circumscribed community in rural North Carolina where people worked the land or they left the land to work the mills. The whole of it was imbued with and made extramundane by the singsong cadence of Appalachian folk speech, a Scottish-flavored Elizabethan English ferried through the generations and across the American […]
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