Category: On Writing
The Keys I Take with Me: What I Learned Writing about the Bonhoeffer-Haus
By Laura M. Fabrycky On my last visit to the Bonhoeffer-Haus in Berlin, Germany, I also returned the key that I had been issued two years earlier to the memorialized home of Dietrich Bonhoeffer—a German pastor and theologian put to death on April 9, 1945, at the age of 39, for his conspiratorial activities against […]
Writing about the Resilience of Women by Juliet Greenwood
Juliet Greenwood The thing that really struck me most when researching the First World War for my first novel with Orion, The Ferryman’s Daughter, was the extraordinary reliance of women, both in war and in peace. So often women are seen as victims of war, just as they are of poverty and discrimination. Things are […]
Interview with Katherine Reay, author of OF LITERATURE AND LATTES
Katherine Reay is the national bestselling and award-winning author of Dear Mr. Knightley, Lizzy and Jane, The Brontë Plot, A Portrait of Emily Price, The Austen Escape, The Printed Letter Bookshop, and her latest novel, Of Literature and Lattes. We’re delighted to feature this interview with Katherine on our site! What was your biggest inspiration while writing Of Literature and […]
Interview with Louisa Treger, author of THE DRAGON LADY
Back in 2015, we featured Louisa Treger and her intriguing biographical novel about Dorothy Richardson, peer of Virginia Woolf. Louisa’s second novel, THE DRAGON LADY is a fictionalised account of the life of Virginia Courtauld. Opening with the shooting of Lady Virginia ‘Ginie’ Courtauld in her tranquil garden in 1950s Rhodesia, The Dragon Lady tells Ginie’s extraordinary story, […]
A Time Of Miracles
by Wendy Holden ‘AS long as I have music, then it is proof that beauty still exists in this world.’ So spoke sixteen-year-old piano prodigy Zuzana Růžičková in 1943 on the eve of being transported from the ghetto where most of her family had died to the even more unimaginable horrors of Auschwitz II-Birkenau and […]
Writing Unstoppable Female Characters During a Crisis — Two May Mystery Releases
Both C. Hope Clark and Carmen Amato have books releasing this month (May). What is it about strong women wanting to write about strong women? Are your lady protagonists shadows of yourselves? HOPE: Absolutely. Carolina Slade holds the same job I held with the US Department of Agriculture, Special Projects Representative, though maybe I embellished […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Alex Hart
When Harper Stein, a feisty photo-journalist discovers a young girl left alone in a New York shopping mall, the last thing she wants to do is mind the child until her mom turns up. However, when no one comes to claim her, Harper is left wondering who the hell she belongs to. Determined not to […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING THEIR CHARACTERS: CLAIRE S. LEWIS
A tense and moving psychological thriller with ideas of victim shaming, and false and recovered memories at its core… Celeste has been running from her past for seven years. But now her past has caught up with her. For seven years, Celeste has battled her guilt and shame over the tragic events that led to […]
Irene Wittig, On Writing
My writing journey has been a long one, probably starting with stories drifting over my cradle, overheard while holding on to my mother’s hand as we walked to the market with friends, and told to me once I began asking questions. I was born during the war—World War II—ten days after the liberation of Rome. […]
Always A Bridesmaid
I grew up in a small town and love the dynamic of that sense of community that comes along with everyone being in your business. Always a Bridesmaid is part of the Getting Hitched in Dixie series, about a group of friends who grew up in a tiny town called Uncertainty, in Alabama. When I […]
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