Tag: women writers
Writing The More The Merrier – Celebrating Seventy
I love a project. When I turned seventy I thought I’d take a deeper look at my life and at what aging might look like. I’ve kept journals for thirty-five years, mostly because I believe in keeping track of both family history and history in the wider sense. I like to think that my words […]
The Power Of The Tiara
With two previous posts in WWWB in 2020 about Kathy L. Murphy’s International Pulpwood Queens Girlfriends Weekend, I’m not here to repeat all of the somewhat unbelievable details of this annual book extravaganza … all of which are in fact true, by the way! Rather, I am here to attest that no pandemic was going […]
Sylvia True Talks About the Heritage of Madness
Where Madness Lies by Sylvia True will be published by John Hunt Publishing on January 31st 2021 and is based on her own Grandmothers experiences in Nazi Germany with strong mental health, human survival and spiritual experiences. When families pretend all is right, nothing ever is. The inside didn’t match the outside. My childhood home […]
How Writing Fiction about Love and Healing Embraced Me in The Warmest Hug and Forever Changed me as a Writer
When I was ten years old, I first thought in a serious way that I wanted to be a writer. I tried writing a novel at the time—an epic love story between wounded people who help each other heal. Because I was ten, it didn’t pan out. Eventually, I became a full-time writer, but other […]
The Research That Brought The Good Doctor Of Warsaw To Life
Dr Janusz Korczak was a children’s doctor and educator who lived and worked in Poland between the wars, beloved for his children’s books and his advice to parents on the Polish radio. I first came across him some 15 years ago when I heard some of his quotes at a teacher’s conference. The wisdom of […]
Why I Turned Away From Realism and Began to Write Surreal Fiction
My writing has taken an unexpected turn in the last few years. I’ve begun to incorporate elements of the surreal—what some might term fantastical or magical realist—into what would otherwise be realistic novels. My 2018 novel, Weather Woman, for example, tells the story of a woman who discovers she has the power to change the weather; she […]
A Fascinating New World By Allie Reynolds
By Allie Reynolds Robert McKee, in his iconic book Story writes: “We go to the movies to enter a new, fascinating world, to inhabit vicariously another human being who at first seems so unlike us and yet at heart is like us, to live in a fictional reality that illuminates our daily reality.” It’s one […]
How Romance Almost Hijacked My Heroine’s Journey And My Novel’s USP
When I worked as a therapist, I met many people with an upside-down notion of love. They were looking for someone to rescue them from a sense of being unlovable. What they needed was to learn to love themselves. In publishing my debut novel, I almost made the same mistake for my character. Invited to […]
Don’t Wait For Inspiration; Make It Happen!
In the fall of 2017, I was feeling both exhilarated and burnt out. I’d recently quit my job in a public defender’s office where I’d spent most of my legal career representing indigent people appealing their convictions of the worst crimes imaginable: murder, rape, burglary, robbery, drug dealing. Striking out in a new direction, my […]
SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO LIE: EXCERPT
We are delighted to partake in the blogtour for SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO LIE: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet The Spy (Seal Press Hardcover; December 1, 2020; $30) by LESLIE BRODY— an acclaimed biographer known for revealing the stories of delightfully complicated feminists in modern history. Harriet the Spy, […]
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