Tag: women writers
Telling the Story That Haunts You
Telling the Story That Haunts You I told my first ghost story in the fall of 2015 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the annual Women’s Fiction Writers Association Retreat. I was embarrassed at first, because the truth was, I believed it. I really did. I heard them. I saw them. At a writing workshop run […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: Ellen Alpsten Interviews Tsarina
Lover, murder, mother, Tsarina. Memoirs of a Geisha meets Game of Thrones in this page-turning epic charting the untold story – the extraordinary rags-to-riches tale of Catherine I Spring 1699: Illegitimate, destitute and strikingly beautiful, Marta has survived the brutal Russian winter in her remote Baltic village. Sold by her family into household labour at […]
Making It to the Finish Line
Making It to the Finish Line Laura Moe Shortly after my first novel was released, I served on a panel at a writing conference and was asked, “What is the key to your success?” “I finished it,” I replied. I’ve never suffered from writer’s block. Every day I’ll write 250-1000 words as naturally as I […]
Finding Writing Inspiration When You’re Stuck at Home
By Krysten Lindsay Hager Writers are always looking for things to be inspired by whether it’s a beautiful piece of artwork, music, or even overhearing a conversation that triggers a story idea. Okay, so that last one is basically eavesdropping, but I’ve gotten some of my best bits of dialogue by strangers talking loudly near […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Carol Van Den Hende
If you like heart-wrenching romances and magnanimous heroes, then you’ll love this emotionally-charged story. For fans of Me Before You and Fault in Our Stars, Goodbye, Orchid (a winner of Pinnacle Book Award for multicultural fiction) asks… “What choice does a wounded hero have when loving his woman means breaking his own heart?” Thirty-two year-old Phoenix Walker is an […]
Excerpt from THE STILLNESS OF WINTER by Barbara Mahany
From the front pages of The Chicago Tribune and her revered page-two columns to her sought-after blog, Pull Up a Chair, Barbara Mahany has shared stories of her family’s life that have drawn in thousands of readers for decades. In her new elegantly illustrated gift book, THE STILLNESS OF WINTER: Sacred Blessings of the Season (Abingdon Press Hardcover; October 6, 2020; $19.99), Barbara […]
Finding A Small Press for My Debut Novel
Finding A Small Press for My Debut Novel After my debut novel was passed on by mainstream publishers and it became clear my agent could do no more for me, we amicably parted ways. But I wasn’t about to put this baby, which represented years of my writing life, into my desk drawer. I was […]
MAKING THE DEAD LIVE AGAIN
MAKING THE DEAD LIVE AGAIN By J.P. Reedman When I was a little girl growing up in Canada, Ancient Egypt meant more to me than dolls. Cleopatra was my hero and at age six, I wrote my first historical fiction story about her. At that young age, I also loved to wander through graveyards, looking […]
My Travel Writing Dream
My Travel Writing Dream By Susie Kearley In 2011, my 15 year career in marketing came to an unexpected end. After a few false starts, I decided to launch a new career as a freelance writer. I pitched a wide range of ideas to magazine editors, and eventually found work in niche subjects, writing about […]
Making Sense of Family History
“Robinson bases her formidable novel on the lives of her great-grandparents, exposing the fragile and horrific state of affairs in the American South two decades after the end of the Civil War…. Robinson’s descriptive and imaginative prose sings; this book is a startling reminder of the immoral and lasting brutality visited on the South by […]
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