Tag: women writers
On Writing and Teaching: Barbara Bleiman
I was ten when I wrote my first novel. OK, so it was on lined paper, in a blue exercise book, written in pencil with lots of crossings out, and its subject was a fairy, but it was the start of thinking ambitiously about writing fiction. For many decades after that, life got in the […]
EXCERPT: Fly Safe: Letters from the Gulf War and Reflections From Back Home
From the award-winning author of Army Wife: A Story of Love and Family in the Heart of the Army AND Your Soldier, Your Army: A Family Guide comes an intimate story of love across oceans by Vicki Cody, an established senior Army spouse mentor. Fly Safe: Letters from the Gulf War and Reflections From Back Home NON-FICTION: Operation Desert Storm, military families, marriage It […]
Happy Ever After: Tracy Corbett
Happy Ever After by Tracy Corbett …and they all lived Happily Ever after. It’s a phrase we’re all familiar with. The handsome prince wins the hand of the beautiful princess and they sail off into the sunset amid shooting stars, fireworks, and showered in hearts and moonbeams. Like everyone else, I believed that’s all it […]
Writing My Husband’s Memoir
I imagine all writers know it’s a big decision to write a book. There’s the time involved, the commitment to follow through, and wanting to get all the details right. It’s a daunting process. After my husband Michael died in a tragic plane crash outside Denver in 2001, ending a remarkable and colorful life that […]
My Path to Publication During Lockdown
My Path to Publication with One More Chapter, HarperCollins – Julie Shackman I have been infatuated by books and creative writing from an early age. I would buy so many exercise jotters and note books and fill them with my stories and when it was time to write creative essays at school, I was in […]
Witnessing Witchcraft: The Inspiration for Cunning Women
Witnessing Witchcraft: The Inspiration for Cunning Women Sitting at my laptop and scrabbling for inspiration a few years ago, I did not plan to write historical fiction. My previous (unpublished) novels were not in this genre – one was a futuristic love story, the other a coming of age tale set in the eighties. This, […]
Dew on the Morning Grass and Other Precious Things
When I was a little girl we weren’t to go barefoot until the summer sun had dried the morning dew on the grass. In those days lawns were “yards” and could’ve just as easily been called “fields” or “meadows”. Lush, long, green and growing, topped by wildflowers we collected to make chains or “tea” served […]
Finding the right fit: How I found my agent By Elissa Grossell Dickey
Finding the right fit: How I found my agent By Elissa Grossell Dickey Almost five years ago, I was fresh off the thrill of participating in Pitch Wars, waiting to hear back from agent-round requests, and overall excited for the possibilities. They say that publishing is incredibly slow until it’s suddenly not—and that was so […]
Motherhood: a Time of Crisis Equal to Adolescence
Everyone recognises that adolescence is a time of development and upheaval; a period of identity crisis. In my view, there are real parallels with motherhood. A woman who becomes a mother experiences huge change, emotionally as well as physically. Suddenly, the world is tipped on its axis, and finding balance again means forging a new path; […]
Writing to Heal: A Personal Journey by Linda C. Wisniewski
Writing to Heal: A Personal Journey by Linda C. Wisniewski Take a walk through any bookstore, and you’ll see that memoirs are among the most popular books sold today. People from all walks of life are putting their stories together for their families, friends and for publication. They write for self-expression, to share their struggles […]
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