Tag: women writers
WRITING WHAT’S TOUGH – from Trauma to Health
Move at the Speed of Trust, a friend painted in gold one Xmas – she said it was inspired by a Black Lives Matter credo – and that card has been on my inspirational shelf ever since. Beside it stands my homegrown motto: I choose health. Three years ago when agents and publishers started to […]
My Writing Life: Sunday Taylor
When the idea came to me for my novel, I remember racing to my computer and writing in a sort of frenzy. I wrote a few pages in this exhilarating state of mind, then closed my computer and went on with what I had been doing, probably cooking dinner. Reading what I had written the […]
How Arnold Schwarzenegger Helped Me Become A Bestselling Author
When I say that Total Recall – the *chef’s kiss* perfectly named memoir of Arnold Schwarzenegger – changed my life, people think I’m being ironic. I’m not. I’m being deadly serious. I’m pretty sure Total Recall was the first book I ever pre-ordered. Back in 2012, it was a whopping £9.99 on Kindle and there […]
The Process Of Writing Sweet Water
Thanks for having me! Today I’m discussing the process of writing Sweet Water, my domestic thriller released January 1st from Thomas & Mercer. The idea for Sweet Water started as a short story that I published in the Mindful Writers, Into the Woods anthology (2018), a compilation of short stories, poems and essays. The short […]
Writing Taint: A Novel, a necessary fiction
My book, Taint: A Novel, was published by Atmosphere Press in December, 2021. My first handwritten drafts were produced for a novel writing class with Ben Brooks at Emerson College in Boston. In the year 2006. You do the calculus. A wedding, a move from Indiana to Boston, a few houses, a move to Budapest, […]
An Interview with Pamela N. Harris
Pamela N. Harris was born and somewhat raised in Newport News, Virginia, also affectionately known as “Bad News.” A former school counselor by day, she received her bachelor’s in English and a master’s in school counseling at Old Dominion University, her M.F.A in creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and a Ph.D. in counselor education […]
Monsters Among Us: To Be Believed
To Be Believed I keep trying to remember the color of his eyes that night. I lean toward blue but that’s probably wrong. I remember I was wearing jeans. I think my shirt was pink. It’s been a while; my freshman year of college was nearly eleven years ago. I remember I’d had about a […]
The Winding Path to My Writing Career By Stacy Wise
Back when I was in third grade, my mom returned from a parent-teacher conference with the news that my teacher had said I was a good writer. I’m not sure what else she said—she could’ve come home with a litter of fluffy puppies for all I knew—but I was off dancing in the clouds. It […]
The Adventure Continues
The adventure continues…novels, flash fiction, no agent no cry, to belong, or longing just to crosspollinate, to write, write, write… Eleven years ago this site was kind enough to publish my contribution How My Day Job Saved My Writing Life. I was just leaving one day job and starting another. Several links in that article […]
Staying True to Yourself after Publication
Erin Bartels There is no denying that for most writers, publication of that first book is the main goal, the thing that keeps you going when discouragement threatens to bury you. You want readers for that book you’ve worked on so hard for so long. All of your energy is channeled into making your work […]
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