Tag: women writers
How a Box Became a Novel
By Melora Fern I didn’t plan to write a novel. My immediate goal was to help my dad get the collections of stuff my mom had hauled from Hawaii cleaned out from under their bed. We had just moved her to assisted living now that her Alzheimer’s had advanced. In the six years since they […]
What I Learned About Grief and Grieving by Writing The Married Widow and Dear Bobby
Diane Papalia Zappa Prior to my 75 year old husband Bob Zappa’s passing away in 2018, I hadn’t thought much about grieving. And then suddenly his unexpected traumatic death from hereditary Amyloidosis plunged me deeply into it. In writing my two memoirs, The Married Widow: My Journey with Bob Zappa and Dear Bobby: My Grief […]
Author A. M. Jaxon’s Writing Journey: Tips, Slips and Hits
Hello, wonderful women writers! I’m A.M. Jaxon, a newcomer to romantic suspense books. By newcomer, I frame that by saying it’s been eleven years of toiling away. I’ve been asked to write a little about my journey. I’m not sure I qualify to give anyone ‘sage’ advice about writing, but with my seventh book being […]
Amal Hdhili Interviews The Red Heels
Amal Hdhili interviews The Red Heels from the short story “Heaven and Heel” in *Whispers from the Wardrobe* *Whispers from the Wardrobe* is a collection of fictional stories whispered through fabric, where each garment or accessory carries the echoes of the woman who wore it. The wardrobe becomes a narrator—silent, patient, and always watching—observing the […]
The Inspiration for My Debut Novel and Its Connection to My Life Perspective
The Inspiration for My Debut Novel and Its Connection to My Life Perspective The inspiration for my debut novel, Out of the Crash, emerged from my sideline view of what happened in my hometown after a pair of tragic bicycle accidents. The facts surrounding each incident shared some similarities but essentially differed. The nuts and […]
The Factory of Maladies: Seven Days on a San Francisco Psych Ward
In my recently published memoir, The Factory of Maladies: Seven Days on a San Francisco Psych Ward, I explore the stigma around mental illness, complicated family dynamics, and the danger of cults. The memoir is an intense and visceral journey of my week-long institutionalization; it illustrates my confusion and disorientation when I first awake, the […]
Why I Wrote the Novel I Needed to Read
By Jessica Guerrieri I didn’t set out to write Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea as much as it demanded to be written. It was the book I had searched for but never found—the story that might have planted a seed when I needed it most. It wouldn’t have saved me. I want to be […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Marina Cramer
By Marina Cramer WINNERS AND LOSERS Lily knows what she wants. She wants to know the meaning of the postcards her absent father sends her – cryptic words and images that reveal nothing of his life or feelings. Once she makes up her fourteen-year-old mind, she doesn’t hesitate to leave her grandmother and travel cross-country […]
DisElderly Conduct: The Flawed Business of Assisted Living and Hospice: Excerpt
Adapted from DisElderly Conduct: The Flawed Business of Assisted Living and Hospice by Judy Karofsky On my mother’s first evening in her third assisted living facility, the main dining room was filled with music, visitors, and a western-themed buffet celebrating the facility’s third anniversary. I was certain we’d hit the motherload of abundant care. Besides […]
I Won’t Tell, Promise
A Magician’s Daughter Exposes her Father’s Stage Secrets. And Why not? By Katy Grabel In fourth grade, I asked my father to teach me his best card trick for Show and Tell. When the day came, I performed it for my class. That night when my father asked how it went, I told him the […]
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