Category: On Writing
The Realism in Romance by Karen King
Romance novels are often dismissed as sheer escapism, derided as emotional pipe dreams, unrealistic fantasy with weak heroines, impossibly handsome heroes in formulaic plots that always end in an unrealistic happy ever after. As an author of eight romantic novels, and a reader of many more, I strongly disagree with this assumption, often made by […]
THE LIFE AND LOVES OF E. NESBIT
Edith Nesbit is considered the inventor of the children’s adventure story and her brilliant children’s books influenced bestselling authors including C.S. Lewis, P. L. Travers, J.K. Rowling, and Jacqueline Wilson, to name but a few. But who was the person behind the best loved classics The Railway Children and Five Children and It? Eleanor Fitzsimons, acclaimed biographer and […]
Irrational Yelling: The Inspiration for Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes
By Kathleen West When I began writing MINOR DRAMAS & OTHER CATASTROPHES, I was in my fifteenth year of classroom teaching, a job I love. In fact, I never deviated in my desire to become a teacher since first having an inkling at age eleven. I idolized my teachers and coaches, desperately wanted to please […]
Introducing Art In Fiction
INTRODUCING ART IN FICTION A New Literary Website Developed by Carol M. Cram Author of a trilogy of historical novels about women in the arts I’m thrilled to announce the launch of Art In Fiction (www.artinfiction.com), a new website for lovers of novels inspired by the arts. I’ve created Art In Fiction as a literary […]
This Parisian Life
Every morning in Paris I walk my dog across the Seine and look up river. On the horizon stands the Notre Dame Cathedral, until recently the spire pointing to the sky. In my mind’s eye she looms larger in the vista than she does in real life but that is surely due to her outsized […]
The Woman In The Dark
I grew up in a small Gloucestershire village – back then, there were only four channels on the telly and as a teenager there was nothing to do and nowhere to go. My nearest library was ten miles away, my nearest bookshop twenty. I was never one of the hanging-round-on street-corner kids, I preferred to […]
The Catharsis of Memoir Writing by Beth Ruggiero York
by Beth Ruggiero York Author of Flying Alone: A Memoir It takes courage to write a memoir. Sort of like going to confession if you are Catholic. If you want absolution, you must admit to all the stupid things you’ve done. Similarly, if you want to sell your story, you must bare your moments of […]
Butchering Eels By Julie E. Justicz
I dreaded the moment for years—through the early drafts and the revisions, through the long slog to complete the novel, through its acceptance by a small press, through several rounds of copy-editing, right up to the printing of advance review copies (ARCs). I worried and I wondered: What will my mother think when she reads […]
What Do We Really Want?
I hate writing. That isn’t true. Not exactly. There are loads things I love about writing fiction, like exploring characters, dreaming up of the next plot point (even if plot and I are never best friends), discovering in a story (and myself) something I didn’t know I would. I especially love rewriting, when the hard […]
Interview with Lydia Grey, one of The Silver Ladies of London
My name is Lesley Eames and I write 1920s-set historical romances. The first of these, The Silver Ladies of London was shortlisted in the 2019 UK Romantic Novel Awards run by the Romantic Novelists’ Association together with Goldsboro Books. I’m delighted to be introducing Women Writers to one of those Silver Ladies, Lydia Grey, who […]
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