Tag: women writers
Avoiding Claustrophobia on the Page: Letting Some air into a First-Person Narrative
I’d like to say that I deliberately chose first-person narration for my new novel In the Lonely Backwater, that this was a craft decision made with writerly forethought. After all, the book is both a psychological exploration and a mystery, in which clues are unfolded and the reader moves toward knowledge step by step alongside […]
Writing my “pandemic novel” By Kim Hooper
By Kim Hooper In those early months of the pandemic, it made no sense to write. There were more limitations on my time than ever before. It was ridiculous to even consider. And, yet, I felt I had to write, a screaming ache within, a primal need to escape into a world of my own […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Connie Berry
What happens when you mix a suspenseful & elegant mystery set in Victorian England with plenty of antiques, a loveable amateur sleuth, a touch of romance, and an incredibly dark secret? You get the latest book by Connie Berry titled The Shadow of Memory The Shadow of Memory follows Kate Hamilton as she makes a shocking connection between a sixty-year-old murder and the […]
On Writing You’ll Forget This Ever Happened: Secrets, Shame, and Adoption in the 1960s
Laura L. Engel – You’ll Forget This Ever Happened: Secrets, Shame, and Adoption in the 1960s. If you had told me years ago that at the age of seventy-three years old, I would be publishing a memoir about the worst year of my life I probably wouldn’t have believed you. For my entire adult life, […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: Maggie Anton Interviews Hannah Covey Eisin
Award-winning author Maggie Anton (Rashi’s Daughters) has a new novel out this May. THE CHOICE: A Novel of Love, Faith and The Talmud, (Banot Press Trade Paperback Original; May 17, 2022; $16.99) is a wonderful combination of historical fiction, romance and the most intimate subjects in Jewish law and learning. When Hannah Eisen, a successful journalist, […]
From Bookstagrammer to Author: Amy Lea
A lifetime love of reading I’ve written fiction since I was old enough to write full sentences in crayon. As a pre-teen, I’d sit for hours on my family desktop secretly writing angsty teen love triangle romances (which may or may not have been loosely inspired by true events). Then, I’d walk the vast distance […]
Eat the Damn Fruit
There’s a joke in my family that when you want caution, you’ll call one of my other siblings. But when you want permission, you’ll call me. My mother calls routinely with questions about a bag of lettuce that has yesterday’s date on it, a dented box of crackers, and recently, a jar of maraschino cherries […]
Excerpt from Pillar of Salt: A Daughter’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust
As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Anna Salton Eisen’s memoir, Pillar of Salt: A Daughter’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust, breaks down the barrier of silence that was intended as a protective shield for her parents and their children. From early childhood, Anna, as a second-hand witness to the Holocaust, felt overwhelmed by […]
WHAT’S YOUR GENRE? By Deborah K. Shepherd
“I like it,” said the (very) young literary agent. “But, sorry. I don’t represent authors of historical fiction.” After submitting the first pages of my novel, So Happy Together, to dozens of agents online, I was making an in-person pitch at an all-day pre-pandemic event. Two agents had already turned me down. “Historical? It’s my […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Connie Hertzberg Mayo
The Sharp Edge of Mercy by Connie Hertzberg Mayo (Heliotrope Books, pub. date May 6, 2022), is about a nursing assistant in 1890 at the New York Cancer Hospital. It’s a beautifully written, gripping novel about social inequities, medical ethics, and the enduring challenges for women in healthcare and the workplace. Told by an indomitable and likable young heroine, […]
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