Category: On Writing
FORGED by Danielle Teller: Excerpt
FORGED A thrilling and immersive tale of an impoverished woman turned con-artist by the critically acclaimed author of All the Ever Afters In the Gilded Age, a time of abject poverty and obscene wealth, a desperate and ambitious young woman strikes out for a new life in the rising industrial cities of America. Naive Fanny is […]
What My Grandma, My Bernese Mountain Dog, and the Law Taught Me About Wellness–Which Led Me to Write Wellness Reimagined
by Erin Clifford As I reflect on my journey—both personal and professional—I see how each chapter of my life led me not only to embrace wellness but to write about it. I always loved to write whether it was in journals as a teenager or research papers in high school. My passion for wellness didn’t […]
The Year of Transitioning from Empress to Emperor: from Intuition to Efficiency
2024 will be the year of the woman leader! May 2024 saw the publication of my second book in the Arcana Oracle Series, High Priestess and Empress. I thought in 2024 that the stars were aligned perfectly for women leaders to be celebrated. My book series is based on the real-life Victorian women leaders, celebrity […]
The Importance of Strong Female Friendships as Writers
By Linda Newbery I have several friends to thank for the publication of The One True Thing. Without them, the novel would still exist only as a cloud document and in my mind and those of its few readers, but three conversations in particular set it on its way and led to the formation of […]
Finding Inspiration to Write About Trauma
Finding Inspiration to Write About Trauma Someone once told me, “You don’t look like what you’ve been through.” Thank goodness for that, because if I did, this middle-aged woman might frighten small children. She meant it as a compliment, though, because today I’m a reasonably well-adjusted person. But let me tell you—getting here didn’t come […]
Writing for Readers
by Tracy Shawn When we writers create with readers in mind, we can craft our stories into more vivid, engaging, and, well…readable works. Why? Because writing for readers keeps us more engaged in the process, increases awareness of how our writing will resonate with others, and inspires us to work that much harder to create captivating […]
Researching Glasgow’s first Women Police
By Donna Moore During World War I, with so many male police officers away fighting, the Glasgow Vigilance Association, a branch of the Suffrage Movement, took the initiative and patrolled the streets. One such woman was nurse Emily Miller. On 6th September 1915, Miller was appointed to the police force in Glasgow, although her official […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Nicola Kraus
From Nicola Kraus, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nanny Diaries, with over 6 million copies in print in 32 languages, comes her first solo novel, a powerful heartbreaking story about righting the wrongs of a family’s past. In THE BEST WE COULD HOPE FOR: A Novel (Little A; on sale: May 1, 2025), Kraus delivers a fiercely imagined and moving […]
April: Reading With Rochelle Weinstein
Hello Readers & Friends, Is it just me or is time flying? I’m heading into May wondering where did April go? Did you have any rain for those promised May flowers? Here in Miami we’ve had unseasonably cooler temperatures (not much of a drizzle). The breezy days meant balcony reads spent flipping through pages. This […]
On Writing VATICAN DAUGHTER by Joni Marie Iraci
Vatican Daughter The Evolution By Joni Marie Iraci In the throes of teenage angst, I wrote poetry. Some of it was decent, but most not so much. But what novelist didn’t have his or her beginnings as a poet of sorts? As I ventured out into the world, I mastered letter writing. I was glib […]
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