Tag: women writers
The Lost Words of Helen Lowe-Porter, Thomas Mann’s Translator
The Lost Words of Helen Lowe-Porter, Thomas Mann’s Translator By Jo Salas, author Mrs. Lowe-Porter, available now In 1942 the German novelist Thomas Mann wrote to his long-time translator, Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter: “Your story which I return to you with sincere thanks is a very lovable, heartwarming piece of work of a delicate cello sound […]
Authors Interviewing characters: JN Welsh
Authors Interviewing characters: JN Welsh About IN TUNE A tour manager determined to revitalize her career. The client she can’t stop thinking about. Workplace romance hits the road in this enemies-to-lovers romance from JN Welsh. Luke Anderson needs a manager—fast. His last one quit, leaving his tour and his future in jeopardy. Now instead of […]
JUST WRITE by Deborah Driggs
JUST WRITE Writing has changed my life. It is not an easy task: it requires me to be vulnerable, open, and honest and to share my journey in the hopes it might provide help for someone out there going through a similar challenge. Sometimes I write just to have a good laugh about something I […]
Except from Soul of the Mountain, by Leah Chyten
Except from Soul of the Mountain, by Leah Chyten Leah Chyten has been a philosopher since youth. Before attending college, she homesteaded in Maine, where she raised animals, vegetables, and children, and compiled a collection of songs, poetry, short stories and a novel. Her second novel was inspired by the painful complexities of the state […]
Moo of Writing: a Guide for Creative Writers
Moo of Writing: a Guide for Creative Writers By Nan Lundeen Today we need a lightness of being. We need Wordsworth’s daffodils and the wisdom of Mary Oliver’s dog Percy whose bottom line on how to live her life after she asks his advice is “trust.” When three a.m. thoughts rummage around in my mind […]
On Writing Elizabeth’s Mountain
Emotion-heavy women’s fiction is the genre that captures me the most. It is the one that stays with me long after I have finished a book, which is why I write in the genre I most like to read. Living all those experiences of longing, pain, or misfortune, the characters who overcome difficulties and hardships […]
Laila Ibrahim On Writing AFTER THE RAIN
AFTER THE RAIN Story behind the story Laila Ibrahim I was inspired to write this book after seeing protesters at a marriage equality rally in the late 1990s. I was struck by the group of teens and parents holding up signs declaring marriage should only be between a man and a woman. I imagined they […]
Anna and Jacqui Burns: A Unique Dynamic
Anna and Jacqui Burns: A Unique Dynamic We began writing together in lockdown as, living over two hundred miles apart, it was a good way of keeping in touch and sharing something we both enjoyed. Neither of us could have imagined that we would continue to write novels together. There are other writing duos, such […]
Writing Requirement: Have Fun
Writing Requirement: Have Fun by Saralyn Richard I have taught creative writing off and on for a long time—to high school students and to senior citizens, to aspiring authors who made writing their careers, and to leisure-time writers who were testing the waters of their talents. No matter who the learners were, the process was […]
How Sharing Stories Can Save Lives: The Importance of Oral Storytelling in a Crisis
How Sharing Stories Can Save Lives The importance of oral storytelling in a crisis “In a chaotic world acquiring books is a balancing act on the edge of the abyss.” Wrote Walter Benjamin in Unpacking My Library. The same could equally be said about reading books. At the onset of the first UK Covid Lockdown […]
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