Category: On Writing
Art For the Ladylike: An Autobiography Through Other Lives
By Whitney Otto I always knew that I would never write a traditional memoir or autobiography. I felt my life wasn’t eventful enough in any sort of significant way, which can be good in the real world, but can be something of a liability in the memoir world. Also, my favorite memoirs/autobiographies run along less […]
When Your Book is on a Topic Nobody Wants to Think About
When your book is on a topic nobody wants to think about Kathleen Basi Bear with me a minute, because I’m going to start with a cliché: a book is like a baby. I know, I know. But it really is! You dream about it, you conceive it, you gestate it, you labor over it, […]
Finding The Words As A #WRITERMOM
Finding the words as a #writermom By Casey Dembowski #writermom It’s one of my favorite hashtags and something I’m always quick to point out—I’m a writer mom. I’ve been a writer nearly my whole life, but being a writer mom is something different. The two roles are often at odds with each other. If I’m […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Julie Ryan McGue
Authors Interviewing Characters: Julie Ryan McGue Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging is not just another tale of an adoptee’s desire for personal history. This is a real-life story of twin sisters–adopted at birth and raised together–who face the daunting task of locating and connecting with birth relatives because one of […]
Call Yourself A Writer by Anne Leigh Parrish
I recently took part in a virtual author event with two other women writers. Let me say how much I have come to appreciate the magic of Zoom video conferencing, aside from not having a paid account which meant getting dumped off the call after forty minutes. No problem, everyone, including the audience, was able […]
Ann Garvin interviews the characters of her novel I Thought You Said This Would Work
Three Frenemies risk their sanity on a cross country road trip with an enormous dog in a dilapidated camper all for the mutual love of a best friend in the hospital. “Ann Garvin navigates the twists and turns of female friendship like few writers working today. I THOUGHT YOU SAID THIS WOULD WORK is at once profound, […]
TEARS OF AMBER by Sofía Segovia
When Mexican literary star Sofía Segovia’s Spanish language novel, El murmullo de las Abejas, was translated and published in English in 2019, The Washington Post praised Segovia as “a writer whose absorbing yet accessible prose and gift for sprinkling the mystical into a deeply human narrative is sure to draw comparisons to Latin American greats, […]
Dear Black Woman Writer
Dear Black Woman With A Pen, You say you want to be a writer. Here is how. Write. That is it. Writers write. You want to be a writer. You write. You are not stealing time. It may feel like there are more important things. There are children to feed; partners to tend to; elder […]
How the Isle of Skye has Influenced my Writing
By Liz MacRae Shaw I was brought up in the south of England but my mother was born and bred on the Isle of Skye so every summer I spent a month on the island with my grandparents. The wild beauty of Skye made a huge impression on me as did the distinctive music, the […]
Interview with Mary O’Connor from The Ends of the Earth
Author Abbie Greaves interviews Mary O’Connor from her new novel The Ends of the Earth, known as Anywhere for You in the USA & Canada. It tells the story of why Mary has been stood outside Ealing Broadway train station every evening for the last seven years, carrying a sign that reads simply: COME HOME […]
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