Tag: women writers
Writing Historical Fiction with Debut Novelist Samantha Specks
Inspired by the true story of the thirty-eight Dakota-Sioux men hanged in Minnesota in 1862―the largest mass execution in US history―Dovetails in Tall Grass is a tale of two young women connected by the fate of one man. Writing Historical Fiction with debut novelist Samantha Specks Though my novel is about events in 1862, for me the […]
Seeing Inside The Unseen
Many years ago, before I became a writer, I worked for a boutique investment firm in Silicon Valley writing business plans for start-ups. I would sit in plush Palo Alto living rooms with two or three men, always older, always white, who’d already made their fortunes but were looking to make another, bigger one. They […]
On Getting the History Right (or Trying to…)
The foundation for All Things That Deserve To Perish, the story of a gifted German-Jewess who finds herself in a fragile mixed marriage, was laid in my early days as a graduate student in history. On reading a biography of Bismarck’s banker, Gerson Bleichroeder, I landed one day on a story that really moved me. […]
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 […]
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