Tag: women writers
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: Annette Chavez Macias
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: Annette Chavez Macias About Big Chicas Don’t Cry Four cousins navigate love, loss, and the meaning of family over the course of one memorable year in this heartfelt family drama. Cousins Mari, Erica, Selena, and Gracie are inseparable. They aren’t just family but best friends―sharing secrets, traditions, and a fierce love for […]
Barbarians at the Gate: Creative anxiety and the Fear of Sharing your Work
Barbarians at the Gate Creative anxiety and the fear of sharing your work Sharing what you create is important. It doesn’t matter if it is a short story, a sculpture, a kick-ass PowerPoint presentation design, a sketch, or a poem. But sharing something so personal can be terrifying. Sharing exposes you, makes you vulnerable. It […]
Research and Inspiration: Writing Tomorrow in Shanghai & Other Stories
By May-lee Chai While I wrote the stories in Tomorrow in Shanghai over the course of ten-plus years, the majority were written during the last six years, so either under the Trump administration or during the pandemic. While none of the stories is set in the present day, I feel that every one of them […]
PART II: Expanding Your Author Life – Becoming a Sought After and Great Media Guest
by Grace Sammon In Part 1 of this series (INSERT LINK TO THAT ARTICLE), I laid out a case study showing how two authors, who did not know of each other, set out on a two-year journey of creativity and collaboration. The two authors, one we call “M,” the other, “G,” together and separately, created […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Imogen Matthews
Books for Women: Authors Interviewing Characters: Imogen Matthews THE BOY IN THE ATTIC Anna opened the letter with trembling hands. ‘My darling, if you’re reading this, I haven’t managed to unravel my parents’ secret. But you can. Will you finish the search for me, find out who they were, and who you really are?’ Nazi-occupied […]
Angels in YA: How the Classic Tropes stay new and Exciting
by Jen Braaksma I truly believe stories are a collaboration of the imagination. I write and readers read, but there wouldn’t be a story without one or the other. We all come up with our own interpretation of a story based on our own identities and experiences, and it’s those differences that I love. It’s […]
UpLit – Stories to Save Us!
By Faith Hogan For as long as I can remember, we’ve been told – you are what you eat. Really? Because, as a voracious reader, like most of us here, probably, I have a feeling it’s far more likely that we are what we read! Who hasn’t devoured books like The Secret and read about the […]
Setting as inspiration: Instructions for the Working Day
Setting as inspiration: Instructions for the Working Day While pursuing my interest in the Cold War, I stumbled across an article in the Berliner Zeitung about Alwine, a tiny village crumbling all by itself in a forest in the former communist state of East Germany. I was fascinated by this lonely, forgotten place and wondered […]
My Long, Winding, and Very Crooked Writing Journey
By Sharon M. Peterson I’ve secretly always wanted to be a writer. But life has a way of detouring dreams like that. I got married. I taught middle school. I had four kids, two with special needs. I quit teaching to stay home and became a professional at a variety of things, including: arguing with […]
Expanding Your Author Life – A Case Study: PART ONE
PART I: Expanding Your Author Life – A Case Study by Grace Sammon Two authors, who do not know of each other, launch their new books at the height of the pandemic. Both are women, one is mid-40s, one is mid-60s. The elder woman (gosh that’s tough to write), we will call her “G,” has […]
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