Category: On Writing
Lost and Found in a Hearing World: Finding My Voice in My Writing
Lost and Found in a Hearing World: Finding My Voice in My Writing By Claudia Marseille When I was ten I bombed my oral report on Abraham Lincoln in front of the school auditorium packed with expectant parents, teachers and invited guests. I stood frozen in front of the room. Even though I understood what […]
Women Learning to Love Themselves
Juliet Greenwood When I first had the idea for The Secret Daughter of Venice I knew it was not going to be a conventional love story, but rather that of a young woman learning to love herself, as she uncovers the secrets of her origins, and pursues her own ambition to be make her living […]
INTRODUCING THE BEST OF BOOK MARKETING PODCAST!
INTRODUCING THE BEST OF BOOK MARKETING PODCAST A book marketing podcast hosted by Lainey Cameron and Paulette Stout, showcasing what’s worth your time, what’s just hype, and what fellow authors learned along the way! Live on video in the Women Writers Women’s Books Group on Facebook on the second Friday of the month at 1pm […]
On Writing Five Days in Bogotá
I was in New York City visiting galleries and studios in the early 1990s. A gallerist friend invited me to a dinner party in his apartment in The Old Police Building. Among the guests were Colombian dignitaries who had spoken at the United Nations that day. The cumbia music swept me away as my friend […]
EXCERPT: All for You: A World War II Family Memoir of Love, Separation, and Loss
All for You: A World War II Family Memoir of Love, Separation, and Loss Emil, a Jewish man in 1930s Germany, loves Deta, a Lutheran, but Nazi racial purity laws forbid their marriage. Desperate to find a place where their love can survive, they must separate to get away. Deta leaves for England, but Emil […]
Writing the Other: My Protagonist is Disabled, I am Not
Writing the Other: My protagonist is disabled, I am not My second novel, Unswerving, published by the University of Wisconsin Press, is about a young woman trying to rebuild her life after she’s paralyzed in a car accident. Estranged from her family, Tave gradually uncovers her inner strength and finds a new home within the […]
On Writing The Fortune Teller’s Prophecy: A Memoir of an Unlikely Doctor
The Fortune Teller’s Prophecy: A Memoir of an Unlikely Doctor: The process. I’m an action junkie. I love suspense, plot twists, and cliffhangers. As a child, I consumed scores of tales of fantasy, magic, romance, and adventure. As a teenager, I could devour three books in one afternoon and I dreamed about becoming a writer. […]
THE ALONE TIME by Elle Marr, Excerpt
We are delighted to feature this excerpt from THE ALONE TIME by Elle Marr! THE ALONE TIME For two sisters, confronting the past could come at a terrible price in a riveting novel about a family tragedy—and family secrets—by the #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author Elle Marr. Fiona and Violet Seng were just children when […]
Norah Woodsey: On Writing THE STATES
In the spring of 2020, the first draft of my second novel The Control Problem was coming together. A hard science fiction story, it blends a woman’s experiences of young adulthood and the creation of a super-intelligent artificial intelligence. I had spent years on research, reading weighty tomes considered the bedrock of AI thinking, women’s […]
ON LOSING MY CURRENCY
ON LOSING MY CURRENCY By the time I finally made my way through the Chatbot to the Specialist (i.e. human) I was already immersed in that boiling stew of frustration and fury in which I’ve found myself increasingly often in recent years. As I attempted, with little success, to both explain myself to and understand […]
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