Tag: women writers
How to get Publisher the Mindful Way
How to get published the mindful way Whether you are starting out as a writer, querying agents, or have a publishing contract, you will have experienced the highs and lows of this writing life. Social media is full of ecstasy and angst. ‘OMG I’ve had two full MS requests.’ ‘I’m so excited, an agent has […]
Savor the Serendipity
Savor the Serendipity My journey with writing, What Makes You Come Alive—A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman began with a coincidence. One sweltering July morning in Hot Springs, North Carolina my friend Harriet and I trudged onto a dusty and sometimes muddy campground for the annual spiritual gathering known as the Wild Goose Festival. Bec, […]
Inspiration For Sycamore Circle
I often get asked about how I get ideas for a new book. That’s something that’s never easy to pinpoint, mainly because most of my book’s subjects and themes come from a variety of places. Sometimes an article in a magazine or a newspaper sparks my interest, or someone I’m talking to might mention something […]
The Inspiration Behind A Dangerous Education, by Megan Chance
The Inspiration Behind A Dangerous Education, by Megan Chance Ideas have always come easily to me. I get them from everywhere: movies, the news, television, music, other books, research … really, they fly at me endlessly. What isn’t so easy is finding an idea that sticks, or that is big enough to hold its own […]
How Being a Wedding Planner Impacts My Stories as a Romance Writer
How Being a Wedding Planner Impacts My Stories as a Romance Writer The reaction when people find out about my day job is pretty universal: a long drawn out awwwwwww quickly followed by the question “Do you write your books about weddings?” The simple answer is no, or maybe more accurately, not yet, since I […]
BOOKS FOR CHILDREN? THAT’S NOT PROPER WRITING, IS IT?
BOOKS FOR CHILDREN? THAT’S NOT PROPER WRITING, IS IT? By Sally Costelloe When I began writing fiction a few years ago, after leaving a 20-year career in magazine journalism, I didn’t tell anyone; I wrote purely for myself. It was my private hobby, a way of escaping reality for a short while into the secret […]
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu interviews Bridget Pitt
Tune into this conversation between two Catalyst Press authors: Bridget Pitt, whose North American debut novel Eye Brother Horn released this January, and Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, who was recently awarded the Windham Campbell Prize for her City of Kings trilogy, the third book of which (The History of Man) will be released by Catalyst Press […]
On Writing: Terri L. Doutrich
Let me introduce myself to you. My name is Terri L. Doutrich and I am the author of a YA fantasy novel called Lilly and Thomas, Throne of Pidl. It has taken quite some time to write this novel as life got in the way many times. What inspired me was the fact that I […]
Galician Women Writers: Language, Politics, Identity
Galician Women Writers: Language, Politics, Identity Literature has played a key role in visibilising the distinct national identity of Galicia, the bilingual Atlantic territory located in northwestern Spain which has close cultural and linguistic ties to Portugal. Galician-Portuguese is the language of the cantigas, the lyric form that was a characteristic feature of Iberian culture […]
My Writing Journey Katy Brent
My Writing Journey Katy Brent How To Kill Men and Get Away With it began as an embryonic idea with an elevator line of ‘a stabby Sex and the City’, when I started a Faber Academy writing course in 2018. At the time I was, along with half the planet, a bit obsessed with Jodie […]
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