Category: On Writing
Why Women Read Fiction
Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives By Helen Taylor Copyright Over several decades, I’ve been fascinated by the importance women attach to reading fiction, and how eager they are to discuss it. In the 1980s, I began to research a scholarly book about that classic bestseller Gone With the Wind, and was astonished how many […]
Inspiration For The Silence
The Silence began as a story about my experience of living and working in Sydney in the late nineties. More specifically, my experience of failing to love Australia, while my ex-pat friends were excited and amazed, desperate to stay, to see more. It wasn’t Australia, it was me. I knew this as I followed the […]
The Myth of Closure After Loss
by Sharon Prentice, Author of Becoming Starlight: Surviving Grief and Mending the Wounds of Loss “This wasn’t supposed to happen! Tell me why this has happened!” These are the spoken words of countless bereaved parents throughout countless years in countless languages. A never ending and always present wound in the Souls of those who have […]
From Rejection To Publication
I’m 54 years old and very proud of my age. It’s the time in my life where I feel most comfortable with me and who I am. It’s taken me a long time to get to this place where I think life is just what it is…it’s just life…just live it. I’ve been writing for […]
How My Children Inspire My Writing – Samantha King
When I start writing a new book, I begin not with a plot idea, but a feeling – a vivid, compelling emotion that I have either experienced myself, or can imagine my characters experiencing. For me, two of the strongest are fear and yearning: yearning to become or to find something; and, set alongside that, […]
The Forgotten Home Child
For the past ten years or so, I have made it my mission to learn as much as I can about Canadian history. Back then, I was as surprised about my own enthusiasm for the subject as my high school history teacher would have been. After all, I had slept through most of those classes, […]
Best Friends In Books
There are many books filled with stories about diabolical women and how vicious they can be to each other. I read these books, and I find them fascinating. However, I started thinking about other books I’ve read through the years where women’s friendships were the central theme. The two that immediately came to mind were […]
Search Heartache: Carla Malden
Raised in Los Angeles, Carla Malden began her career working in motion picture production and development before becoming a screenwriter. Along with her father, Academy Award–winning actor Karl Malden, she coauthored his critically acclaimed memoir, When Do I Start?. More recently, Malden published AfterImage: A Brokenhearted Memoir of A Charmed Life, a fiercely personal account of battling […]
How My Grandmother Inspired My Writing
Growing up, I was very close to my grandmother. Some of my earliest memories are of the Friday nights we spent at my grandparents’ home for Shabbat dinner, the Jewish sabbath. This was a weekly tradition. We lit the candles and said the prayers over the wine and challah. Our dinners consisted of a four-course […]
Writing And Researching: On Wilder Seas
Nikki Marmery is the author of On Wilder Seas, a historical novel inspired by the true story of Maria, the woman who sailed on the Golden Hind during Francis Drake’s circumnavigation voyage in 1579. I first read about Maria in a popular history book, seven years ago. Though details about her life are scarce, she […]
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