Tag: women writers
Authors Interviewing Characters: Barbara Bottner
I AN HERE NOW Barbara Bottner has written (and sometimes illustrated) 45 titles for children, from wordless picture books to young adult novels. Her work has been translated, animated and adopted into musicals. The New York Times bestseller, Miss Brooks Loves Books, as well as Bootsie Barker Bites, Wallace’s Lists (with Gerald Kruglik) and Pricilla Gorilla are some of her favorites. At 77 years-old, […]
To Raise a Novel By Barbara Josselsohn
“Congratulations!” a writer friend of mine exclaims when I tell her my third novel will debut this week. “You must be so excited. Another book baby!” I smile and thank her, nodding at this familiar comparison of books to newborns. Many, many writers I know liken the process of launching a novel to giving birth, […]
Three Tips On Writing Your Story by Annette Valentine
1. Enlighten The Path Ahead of You Seat yourself in darkness and you’ll not be able to do much of anything, let alone begin writing your story. To enlighten the path toward writing your story (personal or otherwise), ask yourself what flows naturally when you sit down to write. Beginning your story in your own […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Lisa Braxton
The fiery issue of urban gentrification is the steady beat thrumming beneath the surface of the novel, The Talking Drum. In 1972 the fictional city of Bellport, Massachusetts, is in decline with an urban redevelopment project on the horizon that promises to transform the dying factory town. Sydney Stallworth steps away from her law studies […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Alexa Recio de Fitch
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Alexa Recio de Fitch About Alexa’s Mystery Novel, Triggers: Phillip Weatherly’s biggest secret is that he’s a killer with a sealed juvenile record who grew up to become a bestselling crime fiction author. Then, striking similarities between a homicide and his detective fiction novel get this adrenaline junkie—who trespasses into ruins—arrested. […]
The Inspiration And Process Of Writing The Returnees
The Returnees was the answer to a question I had asked a documentary photographer for the interview series, YAMI (Young And Making It) I was running on my blog in 2014. I wanted to know the philosophy behind his alternative take on documentary photography at a time when most of his contemporaries in the Nigerian […]
Does Our Cultural Upbringing Influence What We Write About?
I have always been curious about the world even before I learned to spell the word CURIOUS. Even as a kid, I noticed what most adults missed: be it the nine-year-old in me in India who witnessed my dark-skinned aunt rub skin whitening cream on her face daily so someone would ask for her hand […]
Fighting Against Myself and My Past
Fighting Against Myself and My Past: The Story Behind “Saving Ruby King” By Catherine Adel West “You should write a book!” It was a comment made in passing at a friend’s wedding sparking the first wisps of inspiration that eventually became my debut novel “Saving Ruby King”. That statement shouldn’t have affected me so deeply, […]
TOWARD THAT WHICH IS BEAUTIFUL: EXCERPT
TOWARD THAT WHICH IS BEAUTIFUL On an ordinary day in June of 1964 in a small town in the Altiplano of Peru, Sister Mary Katherine (formerly known as Kate), a young American nun recently arrived in this very foreign place, walks away from her convent with no money and no destination. Desperate and afraid of […]
Writing And Research: On Wilder Seas
Nikki Marmery is the author of On Wilder Seas, a historical novel inspired by the true story of Maria, the woman who sailed on the Golden Hind during Francis Drake’s circumnavigation voyage in 1579. I first read about Maria in a popular history book, seven years ago. Though details about her life are scarce, she […]
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