Tag: women writers
Interracial Friendship in Fiction By Jill McCroskey Coupe
In my novel Beginning with Cannonballs, two infant girls, Hanna and Gail, share a crib in Gail’s parents’ house, where Hanna’s mother is the live-in maid. This is in the 1940s in segregated Knoxville, Tennessee, where I grew up. Despite having to attend different schools, the girls become close childhood friends. After that, it’s not […]
Interview with Barbara Linn Probst
Barbara Linn Probst Tell us about your new book! What is The Sound Between the Notes about? As Kirkus Reviews has described it, The Sound Between the Notes is “a sensitive, astute exploration of artistic passion, family, and perseverance.” It’s a story about what happens when a woman—a pianist—who’s always struggled with identity is given […]
Brittney Morris Interviews Alex Rufus
“Morris succeeds in blending moments of ‘Black boy joy,’ superhuman abilities, intergenerational trauma, mental health (including a description of self-harm), and loss into a resonant story of fraternal love that first compels, then devastates, and will be remembered for a long time.” —Publishers Weekly, starred About THE COST OF KNOWING Dear Martin meets They Both Die at […]
Thank You, Carolyn See: Learning To Make My Own Literary Life
How do we come by all of these writing books? Because most writers do not go out and buy a library of books all at once. Rather, they come into our lives one book at a time. We accrue the basics via instructors, classes, friends or resources listed in the back of other books. New […]
My Writing Process By Nina Restieri
From the outside, it looked like she had it all figured out, but she couldn’t shake the feeling that something was missing, which made her miserable – and being miserable made her feel guilty. Looking around, she realized that most of the other moms she knew were hiding their own overwhelm, sadness, and stress behind […]
How I Improved My Writing And Found My Writing Voice
Five years ago, I quit my job to write. Thinking I knew what the task required—a computer, ideas, and time, I devoted myself to the job I’d been waiting my whole life to embrace. And embrace it, I did, tapping at that keyboard ceaselessly until my first draft was complete. Proud of my completed work, […]
SHE IS A WRITER Leslie A. Rasmussen
Leslie A. Rasmussen Have you wondered what someone would say in their eulogy at your funeral? Would they describe what kind of person you were, or what you had accomplished? Would they have enough to say about you? When you are in the middle of your life and you look back at all the things […]
THE IMPORTANCE OF CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
Most fiction readers fall in love with a book because of the characters. I’m no exception. As a person who reads an average of seventy-five books per year, it’s my experience that characters are the most important element in a story. Without believable characters, nothing else holds together. Think of Gollum, for instance. There aren’t […]
How Being a “Regular Mom” Inspired Me to Write a Series for Parents
It is with a heavy heart that we share author Karen Bongiornio passed away suddenly and unexpectedly at the age of 61 in early February due to a spontaneous cerebellar hematoma. Karen was so proud and excited for her upcoming book, The ABCs of Being Mom: Advice and Support from the Mom Next Door, Birth Through Kindergarten, being published on April 6th. Being […]
Writing About Social Injustice, With Monsters
Blending fact with fiction is complicated enough. But when the fact is a well-known tale of social injustice that happened in a place that would later become home to a beloved baseball team, let’s just say I approached the project like a prickly pear cactus. I’m talking about Chavez Ravine, home of the Los Angeles […]
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