Tag: women writers
Writing A Travel Book During A Worldwide Travel Ban
Writing A Travel Book During A Worldwide Travel Ban It took a worldwide travel ban and a virtual lockdown for me to finally write my travel book, Jalan-Jalan: A Journey of Wanderlust and Motherhood. I had wanted to write a travel book for as long as I had been traveling, but I never found the […]
Reading With Rochelle Weinstein: May!
Hello Readers and Friends, It’s May! Spring showers bloomed some beautiful flowers and books. Here’s my latest round-up from fabulous authors and friends to add to your list. For what it’s worth, I READ every single one of these stories that I share. They’re either recommended on-line, a go-to author, or shared by a friend. […]
From Journalism to Writing Fiction: Liz Trenow
Is it easy for a journalist to switch to writing fiction? by Liz Trenow New York Times and USA Today bestselling historical fiction author Liz Trenow spent fifteen years as a journalist for newspapers, magazines, TV and radio before turning her hand to fiction. Here, she explodes the myth that the transition was easy. It […]
Why Marion Davies?
This May, go behind the scenes into the opulent private life of Marion Davies and how the movie Citizen Kane stole her legacy and turned everyone against her. The much-anticipated historical fiction release, THE BLUE BUTTERFLY 🦋 by award-winning author Leslie Johansen Nack (May 3, She Writes Press) explores the true-life story of Marion Davies’ […]
COVER REVEAL: LIGHT ON BONE: A GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MYSTERY By Kathryn Lasky
Publication Date: September 6, 2022 from Woodhall Press Light on Bone: A Georgia O’Keeffe Mystery By Kathryn Lasky Kathryn Lasky has written an exciting new adult amateur sleuth mystery set in New Mexico in the 1930s. The sleuth is Georgia O’Keefe, who actually did suffer a nervous breakdown in 1933 when her husband Alfred Stieglitz […]
Inspiration for Waterbury Winter
Inspiration for Waterbury Winter Ordinary events can sometimes trigger unusual results. In the case of fiction writing, serendipity can spark imagination. Waterbury Winter began that way, after an excursion to a drugstore one wintry day. My husband and I were visiting family in a cold part of the country for Christmas. On December 26th we […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Jacinda Townsend
MOTHER COUNTRY Saddled with student loans, medical debt, and the sudden news of her infertility after a major car accident, Shannon, an African American woman, follows her boyfriend to Morocco in search of relief. There, in the cobblestoned medina of Marrakech, she finds a toddler in a pink jacket whose face mirrors her own. With […]
Writing Ready, Set, Oh By Diane Josefowicz
Brooklyn, 2004: I am standing in the biting wind on the corner of 4th Avenue and Union Street, and the sun has emerged for just long enough to slap my un-sunblocked face. Spring’s about to arrive, but I’m still waiting for the plot of a novel that I’ve felt stirring within me for the past […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Liz Michalski
ABOUT DARLING GIRL In this beautiful, grounded, and darkly magical modern-day reimagining of J. M. Barrie’s classic, to save her daughter’s life one woman must take on the infamous Peter Pan—who is not the innocent adventurer the fairy tales make him out to be…. Life is looking up for Holly Darling, granddaughter of Wendy—yes, that Wendy. She’s running a successful […]
My Writing Toolbox
Words, words, words. Writers string them together in a specific order to create stories and draw readers to their work. And if we’re fortunate, we keep them there, turning page after page. But sometimes, readers stop short. They get in a page or two, maybe even more, and then close the book. Decide to quit. Why […]
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