Tag: women writers
Authors Interviewing Characters: Alexandria Rizik
For today’s interview, I will be interviewing Brock and Kendra from my novel 21 Questions. The story is told from alternating perspectives between the two of them and although they have two strongly different voices, they prove opposites attract. Their storytelling is proof of that as it flows between them like poetry. The story follows […]
Differing Points of View
When I started writing I wanted to be a novelist, and wrote a first draft of one when I was in my early 20s. I wrote what I knew…that was the advice for writers. I sent it off for a crit. I was told (I’m paraphrasing here), that if I wrote about uninteresting people from […]
Q and A with Shanora Williams
Shanora Williams is a New York Times and the USA Today bestselling author of over thirty romance and diverse suspense novels. She currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina and is the mother of three amazing boys, has a fiercely devoted and supportive husband, and is a sister to eleven. When she isn’t writing, she’s spending […]
Tessa Lunney: My Writing Process
My writing process In 2018, this site was generous enough to host me talking about my writing practice – you can find that piece here. Rather than repeat myself, I thought I would talk to it, to see what has changed and what has remained fundamentally the same. My daily routine In 2018 I wrote: […]
The Shape of Storytelling by Meghan Holloway
I fell in love with writing during a scriptwriting course in college. I had recently switched my major from math to creative writing, and the scriptwriting class taught by a theatre professor was my first workshop. Storytelling in its written form was the passion that nourished me, challenged me, and drove me. It was always […]
Author Interviewing Characters Series: Cheryl Grey Bostrom
Authors Interviewing Characters Series Author Cheryl Grey Bostrom interviews protagonist Celia Burke from Sugar Birds *** “Bostrom’s prose is propulsive and detailed . . . a true page-turner all the way to the end. An engrossing tale of survival and redemption in the Pacific Northwest .” ―KIRKUS REVIEWS “Suspenseful. Lyrical. Redemptive. Bostrom’s voice reminds me […]
Being Heard
Gretchen Cherington On August 5 my memoir, Poetic License, turns one year in the world. My publication date, last summer, is a day I’ll never forget. Flowers arrived from all over, including ones I’d sent myself; FedEx delivered a large print of the book’s cover framed under glass from a friend in New Mexico; hundreds […]
Writing About Palliative Care Within A Romantic Comedy: Is It Possible To Laugh In The Face Of Death?
Writing about palliative care within a romantic comedy. Is it possible to laugh in the face of death? When I started writing Love Life as a romantic comedy, I knew immediately that I wanted to set it in a hospice – a cathedral of powerful human emotions and the perfect place to observe a whole […]
How I Got My Agent: A Lesson in Resilience and Hope
After spending roughly seventeen months from Labor-of-love first draft to polished, agent-ready manuscript, I was ready to send out my first compelling query letter. I wanted to send it to agents who were looking for women’s fiction. In the days before the magical interwebs, you’d have to purchase the massive Publisher’s Marketplace book, a tome […]
From a Haunted Graveyard to a Historical Novel
Nancy Hayes Kilgore My daughter looks puzzled. “I thought we came to see a prison,” she says. The soft yellow stone and harmonious planes of the Greyfriars Kirk, surrounded by a shady park and weathered gravestones, with no prison in sight, feels like a serene oasis in the middle of Edinburgh. But we have come […]
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