Tag: women writers
How to Kick-Start Your Memoir and Find Your Voice by Jennifer Cramer-Miller
How to Kick-Start Your Memoir and Find Your Voice Jennifer Cramer-Miller When I started writing my memoir, Incurable Optimist: Living with Illness and Chronic Hope, my story felt like a mountain of clay. How would I carve it into a meaningful sculpture? A daunting task. I knew where the story began. Decades earlier, I had […]
Your Reader Needs You to Dive Deep By Melanie Dickerson
Your Reader Needs You to Dive Deep By Melanie Dickerson As a writer, don’t save anything, don’t pull any punches, and don’t protect yourself or hold back your emotions. If you want your reader to remember your book, to fall in love with your story and your characters, you must leave everything on the page. […]
Crafting Characters Who Make Your Readers Care By Shannon Hollinger
Crafting Characters Who Make Your Readers Care By Shannon Hollinger Think of a book that made you care, that had you so invested in the outcome that you wanted to cry or shout or throw things when events didn’t go the right way. When you think of that book, what is it that you remember? The […]
Conscious Writing: Confessions and Tips from a Supposed Accountability Expert
Conscious Writing: Confessions and Tips from a Supposed Accountability Expert Writing is hard. And if you believe the adage, what is most personal is most universal, then I imagine many of you also find writing can be hell. The truth is, writing my book, Conscious Accountability, was a hot mess. So, when I was invited […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Barbara Conrey
My Secret to Keep When Maggie Bryan works up the nerve to tell her parents she’s pregnant, they immediately disown her. Later that night, her boyfriend is killed. In desperation, she turns to her brother, Sam. Against his wife’s wishes, Sam brings Maggie to his home in rural Pennsylvania. While Maggie awaits the birth of […]
Would You Ask My Husband That? by Kathleen Whyman
Would You Ask My Husband That? She’s wearing the pants in the family. And washing everyone else’s as well. Kathleen Whyman describes the inspiration behind her new book and how she hopes it’ll ignite some interesting conversations at the dinner table ‘Will worked very hard. I wasn’t trying to belittle that. But he could, because […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Allison Ashley
THE ROOMMATE PACT ER nurse Claire and her roommate slash firefighter Graham Scott have come up with a not-so-traditional pact: if they are still single by the time they’re forty, they’ll take the plunge and become friends with benefits. To Claire, the agreement is a safe-enough deal, considering she hasn’t had much luck in love and Graham is […]
Q&A with Jessica Sinarski, LPCMH Author of Riley the Brave’s Big Feelings Activity Book
Q&A with Jessica Sinarski, LPCMH Author of Riley the Brave’s Big Feelings Activity Book Question: What are the benefits of presenting the information in Riley the Brave’s Big Feelings as an activity book rather than a regular children’s book? Jessica Sinarski: Over the past few years, my waiting list as a therapist was getting longer […]
Writing a Novel for Adults: One YA Author’s Experience
Writing a Novel for Adults: One YA Author’s Experience A well-meaning friend called me recently to tell me how much he’d enjoyed DEADLY SETUP, my latest young adult novel. “You know,” he said, “you’re such a good writer that I bet you could write a book for adults someday.” My friend meant this as a […]
Research for To Free the Stars By J’nell Ciesielski
Research for To Free the Stars By J’nell Ciesielski Anyone who knows me or has heard me talk about the writing process is fully aware that research is my favorite part of this job. It’s that magical time before any words are put on paper, when magic sparks in the air and the imagination stirs […]
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