Tag: women writers
My Long and Winding Road to Publication
It’s been a long and winding road from the time I first started journaling about the sudden death of my best friend’s twelve-year-old son, Brendan, until the day my novel, Winter of the Wolf, was published. “Long” equating to eighteen years, and “winding” because nothing about it was straight forward. At the time of Brendan’s […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Joy Jordan-Lake
“Crawdads meets the Crawleys…Threaded through with a meticulously researched, well-crafted mystery, this is historical fiction at its best.” —Fiona Davis, nationally bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue From the bestselling author of A Tangled Mercy comes an enthralling novel of secrets, a tumultuous war of ideas, and murder as classes collide in the shadow of Biltmore House. […]
Writing for Children is more than Just Child’s Play
Writing for Children is more than Just Child’s Play by Lorraine Mace, author of Vlad the Inhaler – Hero in the Making With the rising market awareness of children’s books, it is not surprising that many would-be authors are deciding to try their luck with this genre, believing it to be an easy route to […]
How Writing Has Changed Over the Years
I have been an author a little over seven years now, but I’ve been a writer all my life. With three college degrees and working as a lawyer and college professor, I have had my share of writing—everything from term papers to legal briefs. And I find writing in an academic or professional setting is […]
Writing Pandemonium
The process of writing Pandemonium: a picture book for children 2–7 years By Gail Aldwin A few years ago, I began thinking about writing a children’s picture book. At the time I was delivering a module on writing for children to undergraduates at the University of South Wales. We were studying aspects of anthropomorphism […]
Excerpt of EDGE OF THE MAP by Johanna Garton
Voted a “must-read of 2020” by REI’s Uncommon Path Magazine, Johanna Garton’s Edge of the Map is the story of Christine Boskoff, one of the world’s top alpinists and a trailblazing record holder who overcame challenge after challenge… until she and her partner, renowned climber Charlie Fowler, disappeared. The story is equal parts climbing history, […]
Writing What You Know…With a Twist
By Rebecca Tucker When I tell friends what my upcoming novel, Secrets My Mothers Kept, is about, they inevitably respond with “So, it’s about your life!”, to which I respond, “Not exactly.” I don’t blame them for thinking so, however. After all, writers are often told to ‘write what you know’ and it’s true that, […]
Receiving Is Just As Important As Giving
Receiving Is Just As Important As Giving By Ginny Sassaman, author of Preaching Happiness: Creating a Just and Joyful World Sometimes I am asked, which sermon do I like best in my book, Preaching Happiness: Creating a Just and Joyful World. That’s like asking a mother to choose her favorite child. Not possible! But I […]
Wanting Radiance, by Karen Salyer McElmurray
Wanting Radiance is at once a murder mystery, and a love. It is a road trip novel focusing on a late-thirties something woman who reads cards in bars and restaurants to earn as she travels from town to town. It’s a novel about an imaginary Knoxville, Tennessee Museum of Freaks and Oddities called Willy’s Wonderama. […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Julie Valerie
Julie Valerie, author of The Peculiar Fate of Holly Banks, interviews her character Holly! “Picking up where Valerie’s first novel, Holly Banks Full of Angst, left off, this will fit right in with loyal Kinsella readers, fans of Tom Perotta’s Mrs. Fletcher, and those who enjoyed the suburban intrigue of the Netflix show Dead to Me.” —Booklist “Valerie combines […]
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