Category: On Writing
Authors Interviewing Characters: Connie Berry
A GRAVE DECEPTION Antiques expert Kate Hamilton dives into the past to solve a fourteenth-century mystery with disturbing similarities to a modern-day murder in the sixth installment of the Kate Hamilton mystery series. Kate Hamilton and her husband, Detective Inspector Tom Mallory, have settled into married life in Long Barston. When archaeologists excavating the ruins […]
Midwifing The Writer
By Sarah Branson The contractions wake her just after midnight. At first, she just feels niggly little cramps waking her every few minutes, keeping her from deep sleep. Eager to have the process underway, she crawls from under her covers and putters about her home excitedly envisioning her coming child and nervously anticipating the work […]
Finding My Voice: Why I Wrote Unbreakable: Rising Above an Abusive Marriage
By Joni Parker Thomas I wrote Unbreakable: Rising Above an Abusive Marriage to help other women who have suffered domestic violence find the strength to protect themselves and their children. Too often, abusers hide behind a “Mr. Nice Guy” façade to lure women into relationships, only to reveal their cruelty later. I never imagined I […]
The Inspiration Behind A Tiny White Light: A Memoir of a Mind in Crisis
By Linda Bass A Tiny White Light: A Memoir of a Mind in Crisis is not an academic analysis of psychosis, but instead, one woman’s story. It gradually immerses the reader in the interior of a psychotic episode that I experienced over forty-three years ago and then kept secret for most of my life. But […]
On Writing Grieving 2 Grievance by Dr. Sheila S. Johnson
Losing my child was the most devastating experience I have ever faced. One moment, I was moving through life as usual; the next, I was thrown into a reality I never asked for and could not prepare for. My son’s passing divided my life into a before and an after. In the before, I thought […]
The Book of Reservations by Laura Buchwald, Excerpt
The Book of Reservations Between the living and the lost, one woman delivers the truth. Josie Gray has always believed Miss Sylvie’s Bistrot could be a sanctuary for the living… and the dead, with whom she can communicate. As the restaurant struggles to survive in Greenwich Village, the challenges of running a kitchen collide with […]
How Writing a Coming-of-Age Thriller about College Graduates as a Mother of Young Adults Healed This Writer’s Heart
By Christina Kovac When I began writing my second novel, Watch Us Fall, I thought I wanted to write a coming-of-age thriller about college-aged women. I was dreaming of characters cocooned in a world of dorms and class schedules and dining halls, paid for by parents or put off with student loans, the first taste […]
On Writing My Memoir A Little Piece Of Cuba: A Journey to Become Cubana-Americana
My memoir A Little Piece of Cuba: A Journey to Become Cubana-Americana centers around a five-day trip to Havana that I took with my husband in 2017 and how that trip led me to connect with my Cuban heritage. It was my first full-length book project and first work of creative nonfiction, so I sought […]
Mythology and Romantasy: Why Women Devour it—Leading into a Billion-Dollar Industry
By Rachel Van Dyken Romance has always been a booming industry, add in some mythology and you have another genre that’s completely taking the world by storm—romantasy. What is romantasy? If you’ve been living under a rock over the last two years, stayed away from social media, and for whatever reason haven’t been to a […]
My Writing Journey, by Robyn Dabney
by Robyn Dabney When people learn I’m a writer, they often ask, “Why do you write?” or “What started all of this?” The answers to those questions trace the story of my writing life along a path that stretches from struggling to read in second grade, to finding my footing in a high school journalism […]
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