Category: On Writing
The Power Of The Tiara
With two previous posts in WWWB in 2020 about Kathy L. Murphy’s International Pulpwood Queens Girlfriends Weekend, I’m not here to repeat all of the somewhat unbelievable details of this annual book extravaganza … all of which are in fact true, by the way! Rather, I am here to attest that no pandemic was going […]
Sylvia True Talks About the Heritage of Madness
Where Madness Lies by Sylvia True will be published by John Hunt Publishing on January 31st 2021 and is based on her own Grandmothers experiences in Nazi Germany with strong mental health, human survival and spiritual experiences. When families pretend all is right, nothing ever is. The inside didn’t match the outside. My childhood home […]
Why I Turned Away From Realism and Began to Write Surreal Fiction
My writing has taken an unexpected turn in the last few years. I’ve begun to incorporate elements of the surreal—what some might term fantastical or magical realist—into what would otherwise be realistic novels. My 2018 novel, Weather Woman, for example, tells the story of a woman who discovers she has the power to change the weather; she […]
SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO LIE: EXCERPT
We are delighted to partake in the blogtour for SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO LIE: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet The Spy (Seal Press Hardcover; December 1, 2020; $30) by LESLIE BRODY— an acclaimed biographer known for revealing the stories of delightfully complicated feminists in modern history. Harriet the Spy, […]
Imperfect Alchemist: Writing Women’s Voices
By Naomi Miller Many popular novels about Renaissance women picture them in relation to powerful men. One need look no further than the steady stream of novels about the wives of Henry VIII, perpetuating a phenomenon that I have named the “Noah’s ark approach,” which positions women in dependent relation to famous men. Contemporary readers […]
YOUR STORY, MY STORY : Excerpt
We are delighted to partake in Connie Palmen’s Blog tour for her book YOUR STORY, MY STORY From the award-winning author of The Friendship comes a shattering, brilliantly inventive novel based on the volatile true love story of literary icons Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. In 1963 Sylvia Plath took her own life in her London flat. […]
WRITING WHAT’S TOUGH – from Trauma to Health
Move at the Speed of Trust, a friend painted in gold one Xmas – she said it was inspired by a Black Lives Matter credo – and that card has been on my inspirational shelf ever since. Beside it stands my homegrown motto: I choose health. Three years ago when agents and publishers started to […]
An Interview with Pamela N. Harris
Pamela N. Harris was born and somewhat raised in Newport News, Virginia, also affectionately known as “Bad News.” A former school counselor by day, she received her bachelor’s in English and a master’s in school counseling at Old Dominion University, her M.F.A in creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and a Ph.D. in counselor education […]
Monsters Among Us: To Be Believed
To Be Believed I keep trying to remember the color of his eyes that night. I lean toward blue but that’s probably wrong. I remember I was wearing jeans. I think my shirt was pink. It’s been a while; my freshman year of college was nearly eleven years ago. I remember I’d had about a […]
The Winding Path to My Writing Career By Stacy Wise
Back when I was in third grade, my mom returned from a parent-teacher conference with the news that my teacher had said I was a good writer. I’m not sure what else she said—she could’ve come home with a litter of fluffy puppies for all I knew—but I was off dancing in the clouds. It […]
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