Tag: women writers
DON’T LET BACKSTORY SLOG THE PLOT By Christina Hamlett
Chapter One: I am Born. Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) […]
I Never Set Out to Write a Book About Leadership By Kerry-Lyn Stanton-Downes
I set out to understand something much more personal than that. How humans heal, change and grow in relationship with each other. That one question has been with me as long as I can remember. Long before I had the language for it. Long before I knew it would eventually become a book – or […]
Anne Shaw Heinrich: Authors Interviewing Characters
With House of Teeth, Book Three in the captivating world of The Women of Paradise County Series, Anne Shaw Heinrich draws readers back into the complex confines of Poulson, a small town that simmers with unspoken rules, quiet surprises and truths that are hard to contain. Just like any young man, Jules Marks is happy […]
What Burnout Taught Me By Hayley Hughes
“I was a people-pleasing, high-achieving perfectionist” – what burnout taught me It’s possible the message in the wind, sky or the trees isn’t about fighting for a fairy tale. Maybe it’s about being receptive to finding the fairy tale in the most unexpected places. These days, I believe this. So much so that it’s the […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Linda Hartley
ANGEL WING It’s 1955. Ellen is driving to Belfast to search for the mother she has never known, and had thought long dead, when she has an accident. As her life hangs in the balance, flashbacks of her loveless childhood and memories of her experience as a teenage evacuee during WW2 unfold. ANGEL WING is […]
I Had to Write the Story, By Jean Trounstine
By Jean Trounstine I have always thought of myself as a non-fiction writer. After all, I worked in prison, directing plays for almost ten years, and wrote my first book, Shakespeare Behind Bars: The Power of Drama in a Women’s Prison about that work. I’ve published articles about prison and parole, and almost all of […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Melinda Leigh
YOU CAN TELL ME Crime writer Olivia Cruz is drawn into the dark secrets of a missing friend in a terrifying novel of suspense by #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh. On the three-year anniversary of true crime writer Olivia Cruz’s horrific kidnapping, she’s scheduled to walk her podcaster friend Zoe March through the crime […]
So You Want to Write a Memoir? By Carol Teal – Writer, Teacher, Book Coach
We’ve all had experiences in our lives that we may want to document. Other people might find resonance in your journey, relief that they were not the only ones to suffer, perhaps sidestep some of life’s calamities, or celebrate some of the joys through reading your story. A successful memoir takes your personal history and […]
The Real Toffee Factory Which Inspired my Books by Glenda Young
Many years ago, I wrote my debut novel Belle of the Back Streets which was published by Headline. It’s about a young woman who takes on her dad’s rag and bone round after he returns from WW1. She becomes responsible for looking after her family and faces hardship along the way, before I give her […]
How Emotional Posture Came to Be By Dr. Colette D. Sinclair, PhD
The Events that Propelled me to Examine Energetic States to Create Inner Alignment By outward measure, I had done everything right. By the time I was twenty-seven, I was established, at the top of a career I had worked toward without pause. I had followed every prescribed rule, checked every box society handed me, and […]
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