Category: On Writing
Dorothy Richardson:The Forgotten Virginia Woolf
Louisa Treger’s biographical novel about Dorothy Richardson, peer of Virginia Woolf, intrigues. Who was Dorothy Richardson? These days, Dorothy Richardson is a name few are familiar with; her work is overshadowed by that of her more famous peer, Virginia Woolf. Yet in her time, Dorothy was something of a cult figure. She was hailed as […]
The Story Behind Secret Lives of Mothers & Daughters by Anita Kushwaha
If this article is published on January 28th it will coincide with the Canadian release of my novel Secret Lives of Mothers & Daughters. As I write, there is still an insulating week left between me and launch day, the day that the book child I’ve nurtured for years gets thrust into the wild. The […]
The Brontë Myth: Why This Literary Family Continues to Inspire Writers Today
The Brontë Myth: why this literary family continues to inspire writers today I first “met” the Brontës when my mother read my younger sister and me Jane Eyre. My sister hid under the covers at the “romantic bits.” I hung over the edge of the top bunk to beg for another chapter. The story confused […]
Ghost, Writing
I was a ghost when the ghost writing opportunity came along. My mother had taken her own life one week after I gave birth to my youngest child; a year and a half later, I was still a shadow of myself. I was milk and tears and lullaby; I was insomnia and stumble and mindless […]
BEST WOMEN’S EROTICA OF THE YEAR
In Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 5, award-winning editor Rachel Kramer Bussel takes readers on an outrageous journey into the world of female fantasy and desire. These sexy stories offer up wild, hot and steamy tales from today’s top authors. You’ll be swept away by the sexiest business deal ever, break the rules […]
What’s In A Name? The story behind HUSBAND MATERIAL
What’s In A Name? The story behind HUSBAND MATERIAL Arguably, with its sassy cover and catchy name, HUSBAND MATERIAL comes off like the chick-lit book of everyone’s dreams. In fact, when I first pitched the idea for HUSBAND MATERIAL, my editor acquired the book promptly for one main reason: she’d actually been looking for a […]
The Inspiration Behind A Witch in Time
By Constance Sayers My debut novel, A Witch in Time is a story about a young woman who has lived several lives—first as a young piano virtuoso, an actress in Hollywood during the 1930s, an aspiring rock star in 1970s Los Angeles—only she doesn’t know it. When a mysterious man tells her that she is […]
The Unplanned Writer by D.Z. Stone
by D.Z. Stone Growing up, becoming a writer was not something I ever dreamed about. Indeed, I wasn’t even aware I could write. My first inkling came in college when I’d get papers back with professors often scrawling something like ‘Well Written!’ on top. Still writing wasn’t something I considered as a career. Writing was […]
Why Winter Is A Great Time To Write
If you look at Mother Nature, autumn is when the leaves start to fall. Letting go is the mantra and underlying message of the season. By the time winter arrives, trees become bare. Winter is a time when nature’s energy withdraws back unto herself. We see fewer birds in the sky. Days become shorter. The air becomes […]
Getting Ideas And What To Do With Them
Getting Ideas (And what to do once you’ve got them) As writers, we often get asked: “Where do you get your ideas from?” It’s a question that always tickles me. Perhaps it seems as though we writers have admittance to a special “world of ideas” that ordinary people can’t access? Perhaps we seem so much cleverer […]
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