Tag: women writers
My Writing Journey by Nancy Thayer
By Nancy Thayer My first novel, Stepping, was published by Doubleday in 1980. What a long time ago! We were living in a fourth-floor walk-up apartment in Kulosaari, a suburb of Helsinki, Finland. I wrote the first six chapters by hand in a small notebook while my two children, two and four, were “taking naps […]
Author to Author: Faye Rapoport DesPres interviews Joan Schweighardt
Faye Rapoport DesPres interviews Joan Schweighardt about her new novel, Under the Blue Moon UNDER THE BLUE MOON An automobile accident in front of a homeless shelter causes Lola, a dog trainer in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to renew her battle with grief. Ben, formerly an architect in the same city, has been abandoned by his family […]
On Writing my Memoir Wise Little One
Writing my memoir was an incredibly emotional and cathartic process. It required delving deep into my past and examining both the positive and the negative experiences that have shaped my life. The process of writing brought up a range of emotions, from joy and gratitude to sadness and grief. In this article, I’ll explore the […]
Motherhood: The Identity Thief (and How to Reclaim It)
Motherhood: The Identity Thief (and How to Reclaim It) Becoming a parent changes everything. It’s not a news flash. We all know this. But after having my son, I barely recognized myself. It wasn’t just that my clothes didn’t fit or the alarming hair loss no one had warned me about; my entire life felt […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Kristin Nilsen
Kristin Nilsen ABOUT WORLDWIDE CRUSH Worldwide Crush is a middle grade novel about the heartbreak and hilarity of what is often a very one-sided love affair: that first celebrity crush. Rory Calhoun is the perfectly perfect teen superstar who’s inspiring first crushes all over the globe. Millie Jackson is just one of the millions of […]
My Journey in Publishing: Leslie Rasmussen
MY JOURNEY IN PUBLISHING Writing a novel is not an easy task, especially when you have no clue what you’re doing, but it’s nothing compared to actually getting the work published. My first novel took a lot of trial and error. I did everything to prepare before I actually started writing. I went to writing […]
Characters Lead the Way
As a long-form memoirist writer and teacher, I was taking on a big challenge when I embarked on the journey of writing historical fiction. I was familiar with the basics of writing, but to write fiction, I would get to, have to, make things up! How could I decide what fictional stories to create. Before […]
LOVE STORIES CAN SAVE THE WORLD Katherine Center
LOVE STORIES CAN SAVE THE WORLD Katherine Center One year, for my birthday, I got a historical romance novel as a gift. After ages of studying creative writing and Serious Fiction in school, I had never really read romance before. But I pushed past the decidedly non-literary cover and opened it up to the first […]
Bones of our Belonging By Annahid Dashtgard
Bones of our Belonging By Annahid Dashtgard I started writing Bones of Belonging just after Covid-19 hit us and finished as we began transitioning into a new “post-pandemic” normal. This timing was coincidental but also significant, as the pandemic became a mirror reflecting and accentuating massive gaps in access to health care, mental health support, […]
I Found My Muse in a Video: Here Are Four Things She Taught Me About Inspiration
One night during the early days of research for my novel, That You Remember, I stumbled upon a documentary video on YouTube. It was a raw, emotional chronicle of the aftermath of the Buffalo Creek disaster of 1972 in which three coal waste impoundments failed. Four thousand people lost their homes and 125 people lost their lives. […]
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