Tag: women writers
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 […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Paulette Kennedy
THE DEVIL AND MRS. DAVENPORT The bestselling author of The Witch of Tin Mountain and Parting the Veil mines the subtle horrors of 1950s America in a gripping novel about a woman under pressure―from the living and the dead. The first day of autumn brought the fever, and with the fever came the voices. Missouri, 1955. Loretta Davenport has […]
On Writing In Your Mind – The Infinite Universe of Yoko Ono
I have been a passionate fan of music, since seeing the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, when I was six years old. After a brief career as a writer for publications, I immersed myself in writing about the music that I love. I started writing a blog in 2002 (madelinex.com). It’s […]
The Secret Life of A Publishing Company Part II
The Secret Life of A Publishing Company Part II In my first post, I outlined why Jurcell Virginia and I set up Inkspot Publishing www.inkspotpublishing.com, and I promised a blueprint for setting up a publishing company. The steps are not sequential, and if you decide to go ahead, you will find yourself engaged in all […]
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