Tag: women writers
If You Don’t Write It, Who Will?
There is terror in the proverb, “If you don’t tell the story, who will?” and it haunted me. I had done something very few people had done. In 1980 I left a full college ride to join the circus and become a trapeze artist. The stories had become a staple at dinner parties and chamber […]
“Denuding” Myself: A Path to Authenticity as a Woman
“Denuding” Myself A Path to Authenticity as a Woman You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. —William Faulkner I have been involved in writing/editing/publishing all my life. Also, I love a wide scope, being a dual national, US/Belgian. To write my memoir about my New York City days, I got the strong […]
On Writing I’ll Stop The World by Lauren Thoman
I get asked a lot what inspired me to write my debut novel, I’ll Stop the World. In the book, a modern teenager named Justin finds himself suddenly and inexplicably transported back to the year 1985, one week before the tragic deaths of his grandparents in a mysterious fire. The first person he meets in […]
REVIEW: INDIGO FIELD by Marjorie Hudson
Marjorie Hudson knows the “Land Between Two Rivers” intimately, as a writer, farmer, activist, teacher, and member of a small Southern community for three decades. This deep knowledge of people and place suffuses every page of her stunning debut novel, Indigo Field. In central North Carolina, where broad fields stretch out under the shadow of […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Jennifer Banash
Jennifer Banash’s new novel THE RISE AND FALL OF AVA ARCANA (Lake Union Publishing; on sale April 1, 2023) is inspired by a twisted Lady Gaga conspiracy theory (talk about going down internet rabbit holes!) and transports us to the gritty exhilarating streets of New York City where two young talented women hope to be noticed, loved, and transformed into […]
The Real Inspiration for my Fictitious Setting by Kristin Harper
One of my favorite compliments I’ve received about setting came from a reader who told me she’d added Dune Island—the location for my women’s fiction series—to the top of her list of must-see vacation destinations. Although I regretted having to tell her the island doesn’t actually exist, I was delighted and flattered that she was […]
My Creative Process: Julianna Baggott
My creative process doesn’t have edges. I am writing all the time. I experience the world as me but simultaneously as an artist looking for moments when the story world and the actual world bounce light off of each other. I am constantly running a story in my head, sometimes a few of them. I […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Harper Kincaid
About the book: A Midsummer Night’s Scheme All the world’s a stage, but it may be curtains for bookbinder Quinn Caine’s brother if she can’t bring the lights down on an actor’s killer, in this mystery perfect for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Kate Carlisle. Just when everything is returning to the calm that Quinn […]
Exclusive Excerpt from SO CLOSE by SYLVIA DAY
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Crossfire saga comes the beginning of a twisty tale of obsession and rage, as a trinity of women protect what they covet at any cost. You can’t believe all of them, but can you trust any of them? Widower Kane Black is still ruinously married […]
A BRIEF CHRONICLE OF A WRITER’S NOT-SO-BRIEF JOURNEY by RANDALL PLATT
A BRIEF CHRONICLE OF A WRITER’S NOT-SO-BRIEF JOURNEY by RANDALL PLATT PROLOGUE FROM THEN TO NOW CHAPTER ONE Picture this: A little girl sits in the back of the classroom, scared to death she’ll be called upon to read out loud. She’s a slow reader with a speedy imagination but remains quiet most of the […]
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