Tag: women writers
On Writing HARVEST YOUR HAPPY A Farm Girl’s Guide to Leading, Succeeding and Living Your Best Life
Camilla Gray-Nelson, an award-winning leadership trainer and author whose Bay Area-based company, Dairydell, is consistently listed in the Top 15 Women-Owned Businesses in Northern California. Gray-Nelson has spent her life living with and studying the behavior of animals, in an effort to better understand their secrets to living together in harmony. With her uncommon perspective, she has used her […]
Writing Midlife Emergence: Free Your Inner Fire
Midlife Emergence: Free Your Inner Fire By: Jen Berlingo, MA, LPC, ATR After two decades of guiding my psychotherapy and coaching clients through life’s major transitions, I experienced my own profoundly transformative passage in my early forties. At the time, I heard an inner call I could not deny, asking me to live more fully […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Emily Franklin interviews Isabella Stewart Gardner
Isabella Stewart Gardner, was a daring visionary who created an inimitable legacy in American art and transformed the city of Boston itself. In the new novel, THE LIONESS OF BOSTON (April 11, 2023, Godine), Emily Franklin paints a portrait of a courageous soul who shattered society’s expectations, living life on her own terms. By the time Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her home as […]
On Writing Leaving: How I Set Myself Free from an Abusive Marriage
About writing my memoir: Growing up in New Delhi, India, I had always been an avid reader of fiction and non-fiction, whether it be Irving Wallace, Ayn Rand, Alex Hayley, or Pearl Buck. Books were readily available at home as my dad was a voracious reader. I was fascinated by the courage and wit of […]
Why We Wrote Our Book: The Importance of Building an Owner’s Mindset in Family Enterprises
Why We Wrote Our Book: The Importance of Building an Owner’s Mindset in Family Enterprises By Wendy Sage-Hayward, Gaia Marchisio and Barb Dartt Our book,“OWN IT! Building an Owner’s Mindset at Every Age,” aims to shed light on the importance of intentionally developing an owner’s mindset within family enterprises. Through our own experiences and work […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Marcia Bradley, The Home for Wayward Girls
About THE HOME FOR WAYWARD GIRLS Growing up in the 1990s, Loretta escapes her abusive parents–and the “ranch” they run for “bad” girls—eventually becoming an advocate for teen runaways and a foe of today’s Troubled Teen Industry where teens are sent to programs in isolated locales and wilderness camps. This heartfelt novel offers hope despite […]
MUSCLE MEMORY: Essay by Claudia Hinz
My mother hobbles into the kitchen. Her gait is a wide, see-sawing lurch, reminiscent of my children as toddlers who barreled headlong into everything. I watch helplessly, certain this is the moment she crashes into a table or snags the edge of a rug and hits the ground. This morning, her flannel nightgown is crusted […]
On Writing MY LOVE NIKOLA TESLA
By Ana Atanaskovic One of the happy endings of my writing journey is publishing my novel MY LOVE NIKOLA TESLA in America, the country where the story takes place. And it happened in November last year. But I would like to start from the beginning. As a young girl, I was greatly inspired by my father. […]
On Publishing My Mother’s Memoir
Two years ago, I broke. Crumbled. Oh, I struggled for a few months using whatever energy bursts I could muster to stay in the game, but by early 2022, no amount of priming could restart the flow and I prepared to step away from it all. After seven plus years of writing, publishing, promoting, volunteering […]
Book Promotion Tips From a Publicist Turned Writer
I’m a writer but I also walk through life with a publicist’s eye. I’ve worked in PR and social media for more than twenty five years and with my debut thriller out in May 2023, I’m taking an even keener look at how authors promote their work. There’s a lot to learn and book publishing […]
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