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Three Genre-Crossing Blunders To Avoid
Three mistakes I made—and you don’t have to—when writing a first mystery or suspense novel By Andromeda Romano-Lax Recently, my first suspense novel, The Deepest Lake, was published by Soho Crime. It’s my sixth novel and a departure from my previous genres of historical fiction and literary fiction. Many people ask me why I made […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Mary Pascual
WALK THE WEB LIGHTLY Fourteen-year-old Naya’s family is all about heritage: their art, their traditions, their secret ability to see time. Naya loves to walk the timelines, seeing people’s past and all of their potential futures, watching the world around her. There is one person she has noticed who always seems to be on the […]
DEAR BOBBY: MY GRIEF JOURNEY, Diane Papalia: Excerpt
DEAR BOBBY: MY GRIEF JOURNEY, Diane Papalia In Dear Bobby, Diane Papalia Zappa describes the loss of her beloved husband after three short years of marriage. She talks about her own grieving process and outlines ways that can help others cope. The centerpiece of this book is a collection of several “Dear Bobby” letters that helped Diane […]
Women Learning to Love Themselves
Juliet Greenwood When I first had the idea for The Secret Daughter of Venice I knew it was not going to be a conventional love story, but rather that of a young woman learning to love herself, as she uncovers the secrets of her origins, and pursues her own ambition to be make her living […]
Barbie and the Great American Identity Crisis: The Unfortunate Reality of a Nation Plagued by Racism, Patriarchy, and Stark Hypocrisy
By Dr. Karyne Messina It’s Barbie’s world, and I wanted to write about it. Consider that, as of March 2024, Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster comedy Barbie earned more than 636 million at the North American box office, with a total of 1.45 billion earned worldwide. It now enjoys bragging rights as Warner Bros’s top-earning movie ever, […]
Character Development: Why I Wrote a Novel about Four Sisters
Why I wrote a novel about four sisters (and how I approached their character development) Writing a novel had never occurred to me, let alone a story about four sisters. Until a few years ago, I had written what I knew, in my voice and from my point of view, reflections like mirrors to my […]
Curiosity + Technique = Analyzing the Prescotts by Dawn Reno Langley
Curiosity + Technique = Analyzing the Prescottsby Dawn Reno Langley Curiosity is a writer’s best friend. We write to find answers to mysterious questions or to discover why people function as they do. Every novel has a backstory, the “why” tale of the writer’s need to follow the characters they created, as well as the […]
THE BEST OF BOOK MARKETING PODCAST
INTRODUCING THE BEST OF BOOK MARKETING PODCAST A book marketing podcast hosted by Lainey Cameron and Paulette Stout, showcasing what’s worth your time, what’s just hype, and what fellow authors learned along the way! Live on video in the Women Writers Women’s Books Group on Facebook on the second Friday of the month at 1pm […]
INTRODUCING THE BEST OF BOOK MARKETING PODCAST!
INTRODUCING THE BEST OF BOOK MARKETING PODCAST A book marketing podcast hosted by Lainey Cameron and Paulette Stout, showcasing what’s worth your time, what’s just hype, and what fellow authors learned along the way! Live on video in the Women Writers Women’s Books Group on Facebook on the second Friday of the month at 1pm […]
Norah Woodsey: On Writing THE STATES
In the spring of 2020, the first draft of my second novel The Control Problem was coming together. A hard science fiction story, it blends a woman’s experiences of young adulthood and the creation of a super-intelligent artificial intelligence. I had spent years on research, reading weighty tomes considered the bedrock of AI thinking, women’s […]
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