Tag: women writers
Authors Interviewing Characters: Dana Hawkins
NOT IN THE PLAN Free-spirited coffee shop owner meets uptight coffee addict. Is an opposites-attract match brewing… or burning? Crushed under the weight of writer’s block and a looming deadline, Mack escapes from New York to Seattle. She meets Charlie, a beautiful, generous, nearly bankrupt coffee shop owner recovering from heartbreak. For the first time, […]
Books and Brews — Where Beer and Literature Meet!
Books and Brews — where beer and literature meet! A beer hater doing a podcast about beer…well, life is full of interesting twists! That’s what makes it fun! I hate beer—well, most beer. My first taste of beer was at a frat party during my freshman year at college. I couldn’t understand how anyone could […]
BOTH HANDS
BOTH HANDS For a long time, I walked around saying, I can’t find my way back. At first, it was a voice in my head, but then it became my response to anyone who asked, how is your writing going? The more I answered, I can’t find my way back, the more I clung to […]
A Tale of Two Dorothys and How They Influenced Me by Barbara Lien-Cooper
A Tale of Two Dorothys and How They Influenced Me by Barbara Lien-Cooper As a writer of urban/dark fantasy stories (Gun Street Girl, Hungry Ghosts (a graphic novel and also a related-but-not-the-same prose novel by the same name, The Talking Cure, and Song to the Siren), I had originally planned to write this essay about obscure female fantasy/horror […]
The Importance of Having a Written Family History
The Importance of Having a Written Family History Deborah Driggs Keeping a record of my family history has become an obsession for me after finding my grandfather’s manuscript for a novel based on his life. Discovering nuances about him that I previously knew nothing about made me realize that writing down our experiences is in […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Liz Webb
THE SAVED by Liz Webb She thought his death would destroy her … but his return was far worse. Nancy and Calder have moved from London to an isolated slate island, off the west coast of Scotland. Nancy is focussed on their new beginning, but is increasingly unsettled by the stark island, the mysterious inhabitants […]
Tricky Territory: on Writing an Autobiographical Novel and Mother-Daughter Relations
Tricky territory: on writing an autobiographical novel and mother-daughter relations One afternoon in the northern Chinese city of Dalian, I walked out of the school gates and saw my mother’s face on a bus. It was an advertisement for an English language product–textbooks or teachers, I cannot recall–and there she was, plastered in pixels over […]
CATS: True Tails and Life Lessons From A Purring Companion by Pamela Wallin: Excerpt
“Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods and they have never forgotten this,” the old saying goes. Updated and modernized, this 20th anniversary edition of CATS: True Tails And Life Lessons From A Purring Companion by Pamela Wallin is the purr-fect read for cat-enthusiasts, those intrigued by the fascinating history and biology of cats, […]
Street Corner Dreams by Florence Reiss Kraut, Excerpt
We are delighted to feature this excerpt from STREET CORNER DREAMS by Florence Reiss Kraut! She Writes Press In 1914, eighteen-year-old Golda accompanies her pregnant sister Esther on the ship from Poland to New York where Esther’s young husband Ben will meet them. But Esther dies in childbirth on the ship and Golda embarks into […]
Worthy: From Cornfields to Corner Office of Microsoft: Excerpt
In her honest and engaging debut memoir, Worthy: From Cornfields to Corner Office of Microsoft (January 23, 2024; paperback), former Microsoft executive, Jane Boulware, shares her story of growing up poor in the corn fields of rural Iowa where her future was predictable and expectations were low, stay on the good side of the church and the […]
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