Tag: women writers
My Writing Journey by Hope Gibbs
My Writing Journey… By Hope Gibbs As a debut novelist at the age of fifty-one who had absolutely no experience before I produced a 95,000-word manuscript, I’m often asked a question. “Was it a dream of yours to become a writer?” and I reply, “Yes, since I was a little girl.” But it wasn’t books […]
On Writing The Twenty: One Woman’s Trek Across Corsica
We were about to turn sixty, ready to retire. While friends celebrated professional achievements and milestone birthdays with a dinner or cruise, the prospect of leaving our careers and our fifties made my husband, Joe, and me restless for adventure. The backpacking-around-Europe days of our youth, remained our standard for travel, and so we opted […]
You Can’t Know It All: Why I Wrote the Book By Wanda Wallace
You Can’t Know It All: Why I Wrote the Book By Wanda Wallace I have coached many women who were seen as great, amazing contributors in the workplace – highly valued by clients, managers, peers – but who were not seen as the next leader of the group. On the one hand, these women were […]
Pandemics Make Strange Bedfellows By Jean Copeland
Pandemics Make Strange Bedfellows By Jean Copeland “There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe, “The Masque of the Red Death” Among all the insanity happening in the world during […]
Out of Ireland : Turning Family Lore into Fiction
Out of Ireland : Turning Family Lore into Fiction When my mother died at the age of ninety-nine, her memory gone, I had already begun a novel inspired by the life of her grandmother, an Irish Immigrant, named Ellen Hickey Sullivan Jewett. In the year before my mother’s death, I read to her the first […]
Writing Romance with a Broken Heart
Writing Romance with a Broken Heart by Nan Reinhardt Okay, so maybe that title is slightly misleading. My heart isn’t actually broken in the lost-love sense of the word, and it’s not actually what medical professionals would refer to as broken either. The real word for my heart is failing. Let me explain. Six months […]
How My Lifelong Affair with Stamps influenced my Writing
The Philatelist Many readers have asked me if and how events, interests, and people in my life have influenced my writing. Since my stories all take place in the Los Angeles garment center, my career as a sales exec in the ladies’ apparel industry has certainly had a significant influence on my writing. Customers, colleagues, […]
Tamarillas Press: Keeping it in the Family
I’m CJ Morrow and I’m the co-founder of Tamarillas Press. Who/what are we? A small family of authors who write under the imprint Tamarillas Press. We’re two sets of sisters, that’s me, my sister who writes as Marina Johnson/Joanne Ryan and my daughters Belle Henderson and Amelia Watchman. In 2013 I released my first book, […]
FOREWORD REVIEWS 25th Anniversary: Interview with Founder and Publisher Victoria Sutherland
Foreword Reviews is celebrating its 25th-year anniversary of exclusively reviewing independently published books this year. Foreword was one of the first publications to recognize that indie publishing was about to boom, and they launched in 1998 in order to provide high quality reviews of indie books and promote more diversity in publishing–and they have been […]
The inspiration behind Underwater Daughter, A Memoir of Survival and Healing, by Antonia Deignan
The inspiration behind Underwater Daughter, A Memoir of Survival and Healing, by Antonia Deignan: *** “Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.” — bell hooks Imagine. Love inspires everything. Like many, I looked for love in the wrong places. I lacked […]
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