Tag: women writers
Goodreads, A Hot Desert or Book-Loving Oasis?
Is Goodreads a vast, barren desert with no end or glass of water in sight? Or can we find a lush garden oasis of positive things on the all-book platform? Years ago, before I had a book published, I dove into Goodreads as a reader. Marking everything I’d ever read, rating books with golden stars, […]
AN INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE SAND By Nancy Burkhalter
We are delighted to feature this imagined interview with George Sand, a character in Nancy Burkhalter’s historical novel, The Education of Delhomme: Chopin, Sand, & La France. It is about Chopin’s impoverished piano tuner, who is lured into spying on both Chopin and Sand to earn money and attention. AN INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE SAND As […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Robin Farmer
Inspired by Farmer’s own confrontation with a nun over a racist comment as a young girl, Malcolm and Me is a coming-of-age story about the adolescent trauma of a black Catholic schoolgirl in Philadelphia confronting racism and the hypocrisy that surrounds her, within her school, her family, her community, and the Oval Office as Watergate unfolds. Winner […]
Writing Inspirations – Clare Marchant
To be asked what inspires my writing is probably the best question in the world – It means I can wax lyrical about everything that I love (and I can certainly chatter on about things that fire up my creative Juices!). As a historical fiction author, a lot of my ideas and inspiration come from […]
Behind the Book: A FRENZY OF SPARKS
Kristin Fields A FRENZY OF SPARKS was inspired by a true family event: I have an uncle who overdosed before his eighteenth birthday. Even though he died years before I was born, it was too painful for my family to talk about. I didn’t know much about him, though I worried, growing up, that whatever […]
Life and Other Shortcomings: Excerpt
LIFE AND OTHER SHORTCOMINGS: EXCERPT Life and Other Shortcomings is a collection of linked short stories that takes the reader from New Orleans to New York City to Madrid, and from 1970 to the present day. The women in these twelve stories make a number of different choices: some work, others don’t; some stay married, some […]
Interview with Amy Jean
Amy Jean is a dreamer, a poet, mother, and writer sharing compelling stories. As a poet and writer, she has written numerous books. The Kingdom has Arrived: Foundations Volume 1, her debut memoir, is a compilation of poetry and prose that details her mystical and otherworldly encounters, including physical manifestations, visions, locutions, prophetic dreams, and […]
Unforgettable Endings: Finishing Your Novel
What part of writing your novel challenges you most? For some it is deciding where to begin or how to establish the characters and setting. And who hasn’t struggled with getting rig of slog in the center? But a challenge all writers have in common is bringing it all to a conclusion. After spending countless […]
Inspiration Behind Heir To Malla
I was the girl who had her nose in a book throughout childhood. It all started with my grandmother’s stories. I spent a few weeks every summer at my grandparents, and she would regale me with stories during mealtimes. She was a remarkable storyteller and would weave a beautiful tapestry of mythological tales and mighty […]
Art And Science: Two Sides Of The Same Coin
Annette Libeskind Berkovits It was the poetic randomness of the cosmos that threw me into a terrifying whirl on November 12, 2014. My perfectly healthy adult son suffered a devastating hemorrhagic stroke. I had to do everything in my power to keep myself from falling apart. Sitting for hours in waiting rooms and hospital corridors […]
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