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Reading With Rochelle Weinstein: February
Hello Readers & Friends, February went by in a blink, but there was plenty of time for reading. This month’s round-up includes something for everyone: Dads and sons, rock and roll, complicated families, another hit by my new favorite author, a beautifully written debut, and many more to add to your TBR. I hope you […]
Celebrating Women By Telling Their Stories through Historical Fiction
Celebrating Women By Telling Their Stories through Historical Fiction Thanks to the grassroots efforts of a local Sonoma County (CA) education task force in 1978, learning about women’s achievements in history became nationally recognized in 1987 when Congress designated March as National Women’s History Month. Since then, students and readers alike have benefitted from curriculum […]
Cheers to Women’s History Month with MADAME POMMERY, Creator of Brut Champagne
Cheers to Women’s History Month with MADAME POMMERY, Creator of Brut Champagne By Rebecca Rosenberg, novelist Since March is Women’s History Month, I invite you to join me in celebrating all the female characters in literature who represent real women overcoming real challenges. Women who have helped us grow and progress in ways we can […]
Coming Out of the Spy Family Closet
Coming Out of the Spy Family Closet Publishing my memoir Spy Daughter, Queer Girl entailed 17 years of facing my fears. Being the daughter of a spy means keeping secrets. It’s built into spy family culture. It wasn’t until I attended a writing workshop taught by novelist Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina, […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Ciera Horton McElroy
Authors Interviewing Characters: Ciera Horton McElroy About Atomic Family: It’s November 1, 1961, in a small town in South Carolina, and nuclear war is coming. Ten-year-old Wilson Porter believes this with every fiber of his being. He prowls his neighborhood for Communists and studies fallout pamphlets and the habits of his father, a scientist at […]
Writing From the Heart
Writing From the Heart Donna Norman-Carbone When my close friends read an early copy of my debut novel, All That is Sacred, which releases in spring 2023, they asked, “Which character are you?” I chuckled. While fiction writers draw from their own experiences all the time (some more consciously than others or, for some books, […]
Finding Marvelous
In early 2020, I found Pedro Gonzales, the Wild Man of Tenerife. I was working with a friend in a café, and there he was, waiting—a snippet below one result from my Google search. The deadline for my second book’s edits loomed, and I’d been verifying a stray fact; what I found by chance instead […]
Character Interview: Diane Marie Brown interviews Willow Montrose of Black Candle Women
Character Interview: Diane Marie Brown interviews Willow Montrose of Black Candle Women About BLACK CANDLE WOMEN “Propulsive and poignant, Black Candle Women concocts an intoxicating potion of warmth, wisdom, and wonder.” —Ava DuVernay A warm and wry family drama with a magical twist about four generations of Black women, a family curse, and one very complicated year of […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Kimberly Brock
Kimberly Brock interviews Pennilyn Young from THE LOST BOOK OF ELEANOR DARE about THE LOST BOOK OF ELEANOR DARE Now available in trade paper—just in time for women’s history month—SIBA bestseller The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare explores the meaning of women’s history and the sacrifices every mother makes for her daughter. What happened to the Lost […]
Writing Action-Adventure for Women By Kerry Chaput
Writing Action-Adventure for Women By Kerry Chaput Unexpected female main characters have always held a particular fascination for me. I recently watched Enola Holmes with my daughters, and it fed my soul to see a young woman as a smart, resourceful fighter. and not a helpless creature incapable of saving others. Women can be fierce, […]
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