Tag: women writers
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 […]
A Yearning To Connect
A Yearning To Connect There are many ways that writers fight the isolation inherent in what we do. One is forging alliances with other writers, building a community that understands the creative process and comes together to celebrate the triumphs and soothe the sting of the rejections. Over the past six years and a newbie […]
The Blurry Line Between Fiction and Reality
In a recent interview with my local radio station, I was asked if I write about real people. My answer was a very adamant no. This was not a fabricated response. But. It is not an entirely truthful one either. When Her Guilty Secret, my most recent book came out, my older daughter came into […]
RUTHLESS WOMEN: Excerpt
“A juicy tale of bitterness, jealousy and revenge. The perfect summer page turner – don’t miss it” —Heat “Melanie Blake is Jackie Collins for a new generation – The Thunder Girls is the perfect summer read” —Bella Magazine RUTHLESS WOMEN Ruthless Women takes readers on a wild ride behind the scenes of beloved TV drama Falcon Bay, beamed […]
On Writing Emotional Repatterning
A number of years ago, I went to see a psychic who was supposed to be very good. It wasn’t my first experience seeing a psychic, nor do I suppose will it be my last. It was a very interesting reading, for numerous reasons, but one thing in particular didn’t seem accurate: she told me […]
Writing about The First World War and Time Travel
By Catherine Taylor The First World War and time travel are not topics that, on the face of it, would seem to make good bedfellows. Agents told me as much. Though they liked my writing, they wondered how on earth such a book could be marketed. Still, that was the story in my heart – […]
Michelle Major’s Character Interview with Meredith Ventner
In Magnolia, North Carolina, love might be waiting right next door… Meredith Ventner knows a wounded creature when she sees one. Though her temporary new neighbor may be—on the surface at least—a successful, drop-dead gorgeous doctor, she recognizes the deep hurt Ryan Sorensen is carrying, and it’s catnip to her soul. But even though Meredith is […]
How Not To Make A Book Launch Video
by Kathleen Whyman For as long as I’ve dreamed of being an author, I’ve also dreamed about the moment I first get to hold a copy of my book. The thrill of seeing my name on the cover of an actual book, filled with words that I wrote. The knowledge that a publisher thought those […]
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