Tag: women writers
Someone will read it, maybe: A recovering overachiever gives herself some grace
My novel Other People’s Kids came out in August of 2025 with Sibylline Press. I am the author of five other novels for teens and I’ve been teaching high school for almost three decades. Other People’s Kids is my first novel for adults. It follows the lives of three middle-aged educators in different phases of […]
Crafting an Effective Atmosphere
What is ‘Atmosphere’? According to The Novelry, ‘it’s through atmosphere that we become immersed in stories, enjoying a sensory experience that goes beyond language’. We all know our literary devices, from metaphors and similes to personification and pathetic fallacy, but there’s a fine line between using them effectively and slipping into purple prose. Everything needs […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Ellen Barker
NOTHING NORTH OF DELMAR For fans of Catherine Ryan Hyde and Laurie Frankel, a novel of one young woman’s post-college foray into the adult realities of landlords, economics, and urban politics, set against the Bicentennial summer of 1976. It’s 1976, the Bicentennial year and a watershed moment in America. The draft, the Vietnam war, Woodstock, […]
Writing Myself Back into the Story
By Dr. Kathryn Page, author of Good Work:Transform Your Work from the Inside Out I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember. Growing up on a farm, with two ex-police officers as parents, home life was unpredictable. Happiness wasn’t something any of us knew how to tend to. It wasn’t that we were […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Mallory Kass
SAVE THE DATE A romantic comedy of manners about a lavish wedding weekend gone very, very wrong with the slow-burn romance of Emily Henry and the fizzy humor of Sophie Kinsella. The Bride: Beautiful, seemingly carefree Marigold is tired of being treated like a shallow it-girl. That’s one of the many reasons she’s excited to […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Emily Franklin
Love & Other Monsters: A Novel During the stormy, scandalous summer of 1816, daring eighteen-year-old Claire Clairmont, stepsister to Mary Shelley and lover of Lord Byron, changed the course of literature forever. Those months of desire, betrayal, and creative passion gave the world the works of Frankenstein, the modern vampire, and the mythic image of […]
NEVER LEAVE ME ALONE, Crissa-Jean Chappell: Excerpt
NEVER LEAVE ME ALONE “…a mysterious roller coaster ride full of twists and turns…Chappell’s stunningly vivid, emotionally wrenching YA thriller, focused on a teen girl in peril, raises important questions about social media addiction and the true human impacts of economic disparity.” —Ginger Pinholster, author of THE SNAKES OF ST. AUGUSTINE Seventeen-year-old Birdie lives for […]
How Writing Healed My Mother Wound
By Dr. Suzanne Manser I’ve never been a person who journals. Even though I’m a therapist and I recommend journaling and absolutely believe in its power, I’ve always personally found it a little … irritating. And then my mom died and I found myself compelled to write. On the weekends, I journaled for 8-10 hours […]
On Writing The Obit Habit
The Obit Habit was my first attempt at novel-writing, although I published To the Stars Through Difficulties first. The Obit Habit took me a dozen years to get just right. My first try at fiction, it includes more tidbits from my own life, as I attempted to “write what you know.” It’s not autobiographical but […]
THE MODEL PATIENT by Lucy Ashe: Excerpt
We are delighted to feature an excerpt from THE MODEL PATIENT by Lucy Ashe! THE MODEL PATIENT A psychological tour-de-force about obsession, control, and the dangerous relationship between a therapist and patient in 1960s London. Evelyn Westbrook has given up her career as a model and wants to find fulfilment in married life. But when […]
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