Tag: women writers
Memoir: Quenching The Thirst By Isidra Mencos
My introduction to writing memoir was random. I had read some memoirs and I liked them, but I’d always focused on writing fiction or academic essays. “Always” is an exaggeration. My commitment to writing was flimsy. I’d write in spurts, get a project done, and then spend years without scribbling even a note in a […]
Inspiration for Attribution by Linda Moore
Where do ideas come from? Original ideas, rare and precious, don’t happen often. Indeed, most ideas evolve from a collage of experiences, our own and those we hear or read about. Fiction writing or, if you prefer, storytelling offers a unique opportunity to mold a world of existing ideas into something new. Attribution began over a […]
On Writing Characters
Writing, like all art, is an act of creation and creation begins in the mind of the creator. My characters begin “life” as thoughts which I then expand upon bit by bit, layering personality and history onto them until I feel they are whole enough to have their own thoughts. It’s like a seed growing […]
How Hating My First Job Led to My Latest Book
Sara Bennett Wealer How Hating My First Job Led to My Latest Book My new young adult novel, GRAVE THINGS LIKE LOVE, takes place in a funeral home. Elaine, the main character, has grown up there, living on the top floors with her family, who run the business below. It’s a unique setting, and one […]
The Writing of Making the Rounds: Defying Norms in Love and Medicine By Patricia Grayhall
The Writing of Making the Rounds: Defying Norms in Love and Medicine By Patricia Grayhall February 2019 I take out the letters and journals in the file labeled Boston with shaky hands from the locked file cabinet in my closet. For forty years the letters from Dani lay unread because I couldn’t bear to look […]
The Inspiration behind One Last Gift
The Inspiration behind One Last Gift Like my debut novel, Always, in December, ONE LAST GIFT is a story that starts and ends at Christmas, though it spans the whole year. It’s also a story about grief, and about finding yourself in the wake of that grief. I sometimes get asked why I choose to […]
Lucy Banks: On Writing
Writing for me was always a hiding place. I grew up in a strange house with a turbulent family life, and writing was the one thing I could reliably turn to when I wanted to escape from the world. From an early age, I was fascinated with turning those troubling experiences into words. Somehow, by […]
Raquel V. Reyes, author of the Caribbean Kitchen Mystery series, interviews Alma Diaz, Miriam Quiñones’ BFF
Raquel V. Reyes, author of the Caribbean Kitchen Mystery series, interviews Alma Diaz, Miriam Quiñones’ BFF. About the book: CALYPSO, CORPSES, AND COOKING It’s time for a savory soirée—but something sinister is stewing—in Raquel V. Reyes’s second delightful Caribbean Kitchen mystery, perfectly delicious for fans of Mia P. Manansala. Fall festivities are underway in Coral […]
The Enduring Appeal of the Victorian Sensation Novel
The Enduring Appeal of the Victorian Sensation Novel By Mimi Matthews My new historical romance The Belle of Belgrave Square is my homage to Victorian sensation novels with a dash of fairytale sweetness. Filled with sinister secrets, locked rooms, and an ever-present sense of danger, it contains all the deliciously suspenseful romantic elements that kept […]
Why Women Readers Love Detective Parrott
Why Women Readers Love Detective Parrott by Saralyn Richard The past several decades have seen a big trend in detective fiction toward strong female protagonists, and, as a person who devours such books, I have to give a resounding hurrah. V.I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum and even going back to Miss Marple and Nancy Drew—I’ve […]
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