Tag: women writers
On Being a Writer and an Accountant
On being a writer and an accountant by Gill Darling You may not be surprised to learn that accountancy is not a subject covered much in fiction. The novel that springs first to mind is Christie Malry’s Own Double Entry by the avant-garde novelist BS Johnson, published in 1973. Christie, young and disaffected, hits on […]
Authors Interviewing Characters Series: Jaye Viner
Character Interview with Jane Dalton, wife of the Vanguard terrorist known as Bones, from JANE OF BATTERY PARK by Jaye Viner About JANE OF BATTERY PARK Jane is a Los Angeles nurse who grew up in a Christian cult that puts celebrities on trial for their sins. Daniel is a has-been actor whose career ended […]
Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason: House of Music
Seven brothers and sisters. All of them classically trained musicians. One was Young Musician of the Year and performed for the royal family at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. The eldest has released her first album, showcasing the works of Clara Schumann. These siblings don’t come from the rarefied environment of elite music schools, but from a state comprehensive in Nottingham. How did they do […]
Women’s History In The Past and Today: Writing The Accidental Suffragist
Women’s History In The Past and Today When I decided to tackle the huge yet impassioned task of writing a novel, I immediately gravitated to historical fiction. It’s my reading genre of choice as it allows us to be inspired by what really happened and get the back story in an engaging mode. The historical […]
Leadership Flow: Excerpt
In Leadership Flow: The Unstoppable Power of Connection, author Peri Chickering offers a refreshing approach to leadership development—a philosophy that is bold and current and yet, in many respects, as old as humanity. Peri proposes there is a flow—an underlying rhythm to life—that fuels and evokes effective leadership. We can all lead more productively and […]
An Ode to Sticky Notes
Occasionally someone in one of the various on-line writing groups in which I hang out will ask how people organize their research. It usually generates a discussion of digital versus paper filing systems. And I occasionally weigh in with my own multi-layered, always evolving system of computer files, notebooks, 3 x 5 cards, and the […]
Inspiration for THE RECEPTIONIST
Seasoned Los Angeles TV producer Kate Myles makes her fiction debut with THE RECEPTIONIST (Thomas & Mercer; 8/1), a blazing love triangle situated in the world that churns after “Cut!” A top reality talent agent can only look past her TED-Talking business guru husband’s infidelity for so long before she has to take matters into […]
Interview with Jeanne Baker Guy
Cedar Park, Texas – In 1977, Jeanne’s German ex-husband, Klaus, tells her he has a new job and wants to take their three-year-old daughter and six-year-old son away for a long weekend to celebrate. Jeanne relents. But Klaus never returns and instead sends Jeanne a letter, delivered by a priest, in which he declares that […]
Why I Write Romance: Lilac Mills
Happy Ever After… It’s such an evocative phrase, isn’t it? We are brought up on a diet of it from an early age, usually with the words “once upon a time” at the beginning, and it’s woven into the very fabric of our society. But is it really possible to have a happy ever after? […]
From Poet to Picture Book Author — The Pitfalls and Pleasures of Changing Genre
Deborah Fannie Miller I never had any intention of writing a picture book. I had no knowledge, experience, or discernable skills in that area, either. At the time I ended up writing one, I thought of picture books as just one more tool for getting our young night owl daughter to go to sleep. Writing […]
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