Category: On Writing
Favorite Bookstore Series: LIZ KELLER WHITEHURST
LIZ KELLER WHITEHURST: My Favorite Bookstore: Fountain Bookstore in Richmond, VA All bookstores are magical but visiting my favorite, Fountain Bookstore, is like stepping back in time. Restored warehouses and quaint storefronts greet you as you wind along cobblestone- streets in 18th century Shockoe Slip, then walk through the door to a book-lover’s paradise. Kelly […]
Writing Setting: Bringing Magical Locations to Life by Sandy Barker
As a travel romance author, I often get asked what inspires me to write about the locations I feature in my books. The answer is both simple and complex―simple, because I only write about places I’ve travelled to and complex because I choose to write about the places that have impacted me emotionally, places that […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Grace Sammon
Authors Interviewing Characters: Grace Sammon The Eves is a multi-generational novel about lives lived well and lives in transition. Told through the eyes of the psychologically-complex Jessica Barnet, we travel to Washington, DC, Southern Maryland, Tanzania, and Norway. Jessica is a liar with some big secrets. She has given up on her looks and her […]
Bookstore Love: Liza Nash Taylor
Authors and their favorite bookstores LIZA NASH TAYLOR Once I had a firm release date for my hardcover, I had some postcards printed up with my contact info and the book cover on one side. I dropped by my local indie bookstore, New Dominion Bookshop, on the downtown mall. I re-introduced myself to the owner […]
Bookstores and Authors Series: Lisa Barr
Authors share their favorite bookstores! LISA BARR There’s something so special and intimate between authors and their favorite Indie bookstores, especially the locals – those shops we “grew up” in. When I penned my debut novel, I dreamed of one day being displayed in their iconic glass windows filled with bestselling books. If only … […]
Reading the Dead: Women Writers buried in Virginia Cemeteries
During the summer of 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic suspended cemetery tours and gatherings, I looked for another way to feel connected with history. As an English professor, I naturally found myself reading the works of the authors buried in my local cemeteries including Ellen Glasgow, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1942, and popular […]
Why I Wrote a Novel about Neurogenetics, Parenting, and the end of the Byzantine empire
Why I wrote a novel about neurogenetics, parenting, and the end of the Byzantine empire In the summer of 2015, while seeing patients in the Neurological Institute of New York, I found myself with an unexpected break. As I walked down the hall outside my office, I ran into Michael Daras, a Greek-American neurologist whom […]
Rochelle Weinstein’s Fall Favorites!
Readers & Friends, How nice to be here with the wonderful Barbara Bos and Women Writers, Women’s Books! Not only do I write women’s fiction novels, but I’m also a huge reader. My mother passed down her love of the written word; I’d sneak Sidney Sheldon and Danielle Steele off her shelf, slipping inside the […]
Favorite Bookstores: Kaira Rouda
By Kaira Rouda Since I started in the book writing business, publishing my first book, Real You Incorporated, in 2008, I’ve known the way to find your readers is through your local bookstore. When I began this author journey, I lived in Columbus, Ohio, and there we were fortunate to have an exemplary local bookstore […]
Interview with J.L. Doucette
UNKNOWN ASSAILANT (November 23, She Writes Press) is J.L. Doucette’s third installment in the Dr. Pepper Hunt book series that features a small-town mystery, intergenerational trauma, questionable suspects, and unforeseen twists. You covered her last book, so I am hopeful you will want to continue the journey. When a murder/suicide takes place in a prominent family’s ranch […]
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