Tag: women writers
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 […]
Writing SUMMONS TO BERLIN by JOANNE INTRATOR
Writing helps me manage my life but it always wasn’t so. I was born in NYC in 1946, to parents whose lives were wrecked by the Nazis. My father became morbidly ill when I was seven and two of my close relatives died around the same time. Money was very tight. I stepped into grownup […]
Reissuing Your Books: Helpful Tips
To quote the Jackson Five’s song “I Want You Back” circa 1970, (yes, I’m dating myself) that’s how I felt about my first two books. When you sign with a publisher, your contract will contain a term for the publication rights, meaning they hold the rights listed in the contract until that date. Depending […]
Feminist Author Duo Merges the Personal and Political in a Gripping Domestic Violence Novel
Feminist Author Duo Merges the Personal and Political in a Gripping Domestic Violence Novel Evelyn Anderton and Pearl Wolfe, co-authors of Walk Out the Door While working together in the 1990s at Womenspace, an agency working to end domestic violence, we learned why our women didn’t walk out the door from violent relationships sooner or […]
The Journey Not the Arrival Matters
The Journey Not the Arrival Matters I first encountered this quotation by TS Eliot as the title of Leonard Woolf’s autobiography. Naturally, I had to read Leonard Woolf. It was one way of connecting with his wife, whom I count as one of my favorite writers. It was only gradually that I came to understand […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Brieanna Wilkoff
Authors Interviewing Characters: Brieanna Wilkoff I’ll Be There for You Rae Ballester loves movie musicals and—thanks to her dad—’80s rock. Since he died a year ago, his favorite music helps keep his memory alive. Struggling to move on, Rae keeps her head down and earbuds in, but shunning the world has cost her even her […]
Alchemically Fusing Roots & Magick in My Chicana Girl on the Train RIVER WOMAN, RIVER DEMON
Alchemically Fusing Roots & Magick in My Chicana Girl on the Train RIVER WOMAN, RIVER DEMON Eva Santiago Moon is a budding Chicana bruja—whose bruja mother died in childbirth, so Eva was raised by her conservative and well-meaning sister Alba, who isn’t interested in their cultural roots of witchcraft but instead nurtures her family in […]
On Writing Peak Beyond Peak: Transcribing Isobel Wylie Hutchison’s Lost Essays
A collection of lost essays by one of Scotland’s most incredible yet forgotten women, Isobel Wylie Hutchison, has now been published in book form with a wonderful introduction and afterword by Hazel Buchan Cameron, the woman who spent eight years collecting and transcribing the work. This is a landmark moment in Scottish culture, history and women’s […]
Raising Awareness of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery through Fiction
Girl Out of Sight by psychological suspense author, Helen Matthews, is published this week by Darkstroke Books. Helen is an ambassador for the British anti-slavery charity, Unseen UK and has written about modern slavery and human trafficking in her fiction. She explains why she’s passionate about raising awareness of slavery-related crimes and why fiction has […]
Write What You Know? No, Write What You Love
Penny Haw Life is too short to peel an apple before biting into it. It’s too short to worry about whether your eyebrows are perfectly arched or your dance moves are weird. Life is also too short to write books you don’t love. Sure, it’s tempting to pursue other people’s ideas of what you should […]
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