Tag: women writers
The Enduring Lessons to be Found in a Jane Austen Novel
The Enduring Lessons to be Found in a Jane Austen Novel By Melodie Edwards Why has Jane Austen endured? The question is asked so often, as the film industry magics up more adaptations, and the publishing industry burnishes our shelves with more spinoffs and retellings (have you read Death Comes to Pemberly, or seen the […]
Changing Sudden Crisis into Sudden Stories by C.O. Moed
Changing Sudden Crisis into Sudden Stories by C.O. Moed Decades ago I was an office assistant at this very prestigious art organization that gave very prestigious awards. My big assignment was to call 250 very prestigious artists and ask them if they had something exciting to report. Most of them were men. Not unusual in […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Brittney Morris, author of The Jump
Authors Interviewing Characters: Brittney Morris, author of The Jump THE JUMP From the acclaimed author of SLAY and The Cost of Knowing comes an action-driven, high-octane “thrill ride” (Kirkus Reviews) about a group of working-class teens in Seattle who join a dangerous scavenger hunt with a prize that can save their families and community. Influence is power. Power creates […]
The Resilience of Writers, and Other Lessons I Took from Jane Austen to Write My Debut Novel
The Resilience of Writers, and Other Lessons I Took from Jane Austen to Write My Debut Novel Jane Austen has been an enormous influence on my imagination ever since the BBC broadcast the first episode of its adaptation of Pride and Prejudice in 1995. The next day, I asked my English teacher about Austen, he […]
How to Create Adult Characters in Young Adult Fiction
How to Create Adult Characters in Young Adult Fiction Young Adult (YA) literature isn’t only for young adults. A 2023 study by WordsRated indicates that 51% of book purchases in the YA category are by those who are between 30 and 44 years old, and 78% of those buyers plan to read the book(s) themselves. […]
CAROL J. CHUMNEY: ON WRITING
CAROL J. CHUMNEY: ON WRITING Author of The Arena: One Woman’s Story Over the years, my dreams were of public service. Serving as a Tennessee state legislator and Memphis City Councilwoman, I achieved that dream in some respects. I never dreamed of writing a book. Yet, during an election for higher office in 2012, a […]
HOW TO WRITE UNLIKEABLE CHARACTERS YOUR READERS WILL LOVE
HOW TO WRITE UNLIKEABLE CHARACTERS YOUR READERS WILL LOVE When I wrote my first novel at the age of twenty-three, I really thought I had the whole writing thing nailed. Oh the naivety! You can imagine the shock I felt then, when an editorial company told me in no uncertain terms that my book was […]
EXCERPT: Sonata For A Damaged Heart: A Young Mother’s Journey of Survival After a Near Fatal Heart Attack
This excerpt is from Wakisha (Kisha) Stewart’s, Sonata For A Damaged Heart: A Young Mother’s Journey of Survival After a Near Fatal Heart Attack. Reprinted with permission from the publisher. “Doctor?” I ask. He nods. “Push four milligrams of IV morphine sulfate, stat,” he orders the nurse. “Plus five micrograms nitro continuous.” “Am I having […]
The Neighbor Wager Inspiration by Crystal Kaswell
The Neighbor Wager Inspiration by Crystal Kaswell I’ve never been one of those authors who lacked ideas. Most of the time, I have far too many, not too few. Everything I watch, everywhere I go, every conversation I have is a possible source of inspiration. So I don’t take any one source too seriously. I […]
Rue Matthiessen: On Writing Castles and Ruins
Castles & Ruins was inspired by a summer I spent in Galway, Ireland, with my husband and son. I had lived in Galway forty-one years before, when I was seven years old, in the summer of 1965. My mother, poet Deborah Love and father, writer Peter Matthiessen, had chosen Ireland as a long term getaway […]
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