Tag: women writers
A Story in Search of a Shape
Say you’re sitting on a hot story. Let’s make it a murder. Now raise the stakes and make it a murder you were involved in. What’s the best way to tell it? Far-fetched as it may seem, this premise is the story of the past fifty years of my life. Here’s one way to tell […]
Writing From The Underworld
Cassandra L. Thompson When I finally maneuvered my way into the writing world with my debut gothic fantasy novel, The Ancient Ones, I was graced with several opportunities to sit down and interview with different people. While I received many of the same questions – why vampires? Why ancient mythology? Perhaps the most frequently asked […]
The Author Who Predicted A Pandemic, Years Before Covid
When Susie Kearley from England started writing a book about a pandemic, she never imagined she’d live through one! I was just 16 when I penned the first draft of ‘Pestilence’. It was 1990, and I wanted to be a novelist. Inspired by the success of James Herbert’s Rats and similar stories around at that […]
Awesome
…You sure about that? My friend and fellow writer, Liz Flaherty did an article about words once. Her consideration of the word “ordinary” made me go right into Editor Nan mode and start thinking about words, how we use them, and how we misuse them. I confess I am a word nerd. It’s all my […]
Interview with Clara Falkenberg of The German Heiress by Anika Scott
About THE GERMAN HEIRESS Essen, 1946. Clara Falkenberg, once an iconic heiress, is on the run. With the city in ruins and her dear friend Elisa missing, Clara enlists the help of Jakob, a charming young racketeer with his own reasons for wanting to find Elisa. As the two join forces, it’s not long before […]
Finding Your Voice After 50
4 things you can (and should) start doing today With the completion of my manuscript, I closed my laptop, celebrated with a glass of Chardonnay, and sat back, prepared for the inevitable challenge of the Next Step on the road to publication—finding the elusive literary agent. For those of you not living in my bookish world, […]
Can Stories Change the World? By Sheila Athens
My favorite quote about writing is from playwright Tom Stoppard: “Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.” I’ve always understood this quote to mean that the stories we write can change the world. In some cases, those changes are […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Rebecca Yarros
THE THINGS WE LEAVE UNFINISHED by Rebecca Yarros A new heart-wrenching novel from USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Yarros that examines the risks we take for love, the scars too deep to heal, and the endings we can’t bring ourselves to see coming. Publishers Weekly gives it a STARRED REVIEW, saying that “readers will be […]
Advice on Writing Advice
I remember as a child my mother listing a whole bunch of first lines from bestselling books. “The primroses were over,” she announced theatrically, referring to the opening to Watership Down. “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” she said, quoting from Anna Karenina. I thought she’d come […]
My Road To Writing
I’m always fascinated by people who live their lives in a very intentional way. I always aim to live that way, and yet somehow, find myself often stumbling into things that change the course of my life. I rarely seem to take an intentional first step. Rather, an event nudges (sometimes shoves) me onto a […]
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