Tag: women writers
Authors Interviewing Characters: Lisa F. Rosenberg
Fine, I’m a Terrible Person Fine, I’m a Terrible Person is a funny, heart wrenching adult mother daughter story. It begins when 73-year-old, worn out, former beauty, Aurora Hmans Feldenburg, a hapless, perpetually broke, eccentric, divorcee living in the wealthy enclave of Marin County in Northern California, is wakened by a phone call informing her […]
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 […]
Does Grief Transform What you Write?
By Sweta Vikram We were at a dinner gathering the other night when a few people asked, “When are you writing your next novel?” I didn’t have an answer. These people knew that I started work on a new novel in summer of 2020. They had shown interest in the storyline. They wanted to know […]
A Writer’s Life is a Roller Coaster. How Best to Avoid Whiplash
By Lorraine Devon Wilke When I was in grade school, my class participated in a special pullout session to watch an interesting documentary about noted anthropologist Louis Leakey. I was mesmerized throughout, so when we were assigned to write an essay immediately afterwards, I jumped in, flush with enthusiasm. Imagine, then, the blow of getting […]
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 […]
From Proscenium to Paper: One writer’s journey by Jayne Chard
by Jayne Chard I started writing at about eight; I wrote all the junior school plays. When I was fourteen, I wrote my first “novel.” One of my friend’s Dad was a writer, and I always remember him saying, “If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day,” I guess I’ve […]
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 […]
Why It Is Critical to Support Young People in Opening Up About Their Pain, Loss, Shame; and How to Channel It Into Writing, Art, and Other Forms of Creativity
Amy Friedman, Executive Editor, Out of the Woods Press Leticia Longoria-Navarro, Executive Director, The Pathfinder Network Victor Trillo, The PATHfinder Club and POPS the Club Program Manager PATHfinder and POPS Clubs support youth who are the daughters, sons, siblings and other loved ones of those who have been or are incarcerated, detained or deported; some […]
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