Tag: women writers
Objective Estrangement
Tools: The Power in Writing Where You Aren’t As an American author living in Geneva, I am often asked whether I am working on a novel set in Switzerland. White-peaked mountains, banking intrigue, anything chocolate. The potential is massive. Usually I say no. My latest novel manuscript contains one brief passage relating to the country […]
On Writing PERFECT ALL THE TIME
It’s ironic that as I am sitting here, writing this, that my book, about an unwanted teenage pregnancy, coincides with the ruling overturning Roe vs. Wade. Perfect All the Time was not written to debate anything – I wrote it to work out my feelings about women’s relationships. In my life, I’ve had several best […]
So You Want To Be A Writer…
As an author, I hear so many people say they want to be a writer. My first question is always: what are you writing at the moment? You’d be surprised how often I receive a blank look, or the answer “I haven’t written anything yet”. But every now and again, someone will tell me what […]
Peak Beyond Peak: The Unpublished Scottish Journeys of Isobel Wylie Hutchison
Box of lost essays by forgotten Scottish solo Arctic explorer, poet and botanist Isobel Wylie Hutchison published in new book A collection of lost essays by one of Scotland’s most remarkable women has been published as a book by Edinburgh publisher Taproot Press. Peak Beyond Peak: The Unpublished Scottish Journeys of Isobel Wylie Hutchison is […]
My Writing Process: Jeannée Sacken
Early on in my career as a photojournalist, I ventured into the Honduran mountains to document the life and work of a young Mayan mother. After a fruitless couple of hours, I called a break. Turning from the mother, I caught sight of her ten-year-old daughter, Suyapa, in the shadowy corner of their two-room, mud-brick […]
Interview with Catherine Raphael, Author of Journey to the Heart Stone
Follow Cora as she works to restore the matriarchal society her uncle destroyed in this epic feminist fantasy by debut author and womens’ rights activist, Catherine Raphael. Tired of reading male-dominated fantasy stories, Raphael set out to create Journey to the Heart Stone (Sparkpress, Sept 27, 2022), where a young woman vows to bring together […]
Writing as a Husband and Wife Team
Describing authorship of Moral Code takes a moment. Beautiful green letters across the book’s cover states Lois and Ross Melbourne. Like our marriage, entrepreneurial partnership, and parenting, we each maintained very unique roles with this sci-fi creation. For eighteen of our thirty years of marriage, we ran a global software company. I was CEO, Ross […]
No Man’s Land
No Man’s Land When I was fourteen years old, the country where I grew up, the German Democratic Republic (GDR), ceased to exist – her anthem and her flag, together with her borders, vanished. She was merged into another country, a country which paradoxically was her sibling, sharing a language, a culture, and a mutual […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: Jamie Beck
About TAKE IT FROM ME Wendy Moore hides her collection of pilfered bric-a-brac from everyone, including her husband. He thinks she licked her kleptomania in therapy more than a decade ago. Therapy did help, as did focusing her attention on motherhood. But now Wendy’s gardening and furniture-refinishing hobbies fill up only so much of the […]
Fatal Locations By Daniella Bernett
Are you a kindred spirit and passionate about discovering new places? Or merely content to be an armchair traveler? Either way, I invite you on a spine-tingling journey into the dark heart of intrigue with A Mind To Murder, the eighth book in my mystery series featuring journalist Emmeline Kirby and her jewel thief/insurance investigator […]
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