Tag: women writers
Imagination, Leashed and Unleashed
By Celia Jeffries My novel Blue Desert began as the story of an older woman looking back at a life she had kept secret, the life she had once lived in the Sahara. I had no trouble ‘tuning in’ to the voice of this character and following as the writing took me into a different […]
Defy Difficult Times by Setting Creative Goals
Our world has had a brutal year. We’ve all struggled to stay positive and productive while stuck inside our homes. We’ve sweated to Peloton workouts, snapped cute Instagram pics of our latest recipes, or binge-watched The Crown and Firefly Lane. Following the travails of Queen Elizabeth in her gilded palace or sympathizing with Tully Hart […]
Author Friendships
Back in November 2020, I received some unexpected and unwanted news about a project. While writers are accustomed to the ups and downs of our chosen profession, some knocks hit harder than others. This one knocked me flat. My first calls were to authors Lisa Barr and Camille Di Maio. After listening to their sage […]
Hit Hard: One Family’s Journey of Letting Go of What Was–and Learning to Live Well with What Is
by Tammy McLeod I wrote Hit Hard seven years after my sixteen-year-old son suffered a traumatic brain injury playing football and became severely disabled for life. After a year of trying dozens of interventions, it was clear that Zach wasn’t going to have a full recovery. I started reading grief books, but they didn’t connect […]
What’s So Special About Venice? By Rhys Bowen
Rhys Bowen returns with a sweeping historical novel that will leave a mark in the hearts of readers everywhere. THE VENICE SKETCHBOOK (Lake Union | on sale April 13th, 2021), opens in Venice, 1938: a country on the brink of war and a woman at the beginning of a quest that begins with locked-away memories from a family […]
Writing from Multiple Viewpoints
Writing from Multiple Viewpoints Natalie Lund My first novel, We Speak in Storms, rotates between four perspectives—three teenage outsiders who encounter an abandoned car in the wake of a tornado—and a fourth voice, the ghosts of a tornado that struck the town drive-in generations before. In my second novel, The Sky Above Us, I rotate […]
Much More Than A Group Blog!
I’ve been part of a group blog for nearly nine years. The six Wicked Authors were all starting our careers as mystery writers when we started the blog in 2013. Today we have eighty published books among us. But our blog is so much more than a five-days-a-week web presence. Each of us would tell […]
How The Piano Made Me A Better Writer
By Barbara Linn Probst The Sound Between the Notes is my second novel, but it’s also my first. I wrote it before I wrote Queen of the Owls, which was published a year ago, almost to the day … and rewrote it … and rewrote it … and rewrote it. The manuscript had even been […]
How Long Did It Take To Write?
By Maureen Boyle When my first book came out, at least one person would pose a simple question at promotional events: How long did it take to write? “Close to thirty years,” was my usual answer. I was only half joking. It took roughly a year to write “Shallow Graves: The Hunt for the New […]
From Novel to Screenplay: My Experience
Sheila Myers I had this idea that my Durant Family Saga trilogy would get optioned one day as a spin-off of the popular streaming series Hell on Wheels, and I’d make a million dollars. That hasn’t happened. Actually, I didn’t set out writing the Durant Family Saga with the idea it would be adapted to […]
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