Tag: women writers
The Makings Of A Wolf Den Hollow
Essay by Donna Murray Growing up as a child, I lived vicariously through my grandmother . . . a Native American Cherokee. I never knew or met her, but from the time I was born, her blood ran through me. I was a war baby, born during World War II, and lived on a farm […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Mary Helen Sheriff, author of Boop and Eve’s Road Trip
Authors Interviewing Characters: Mary Helen Sheriff, author of Boop and Eve’s Road Trip “…a heartwarming trek through the South as grandmother and granddaughter uncover secrets held for generations as well as confront family issues, all while having a little fun…A touching intergenerational romp…” —Kirkus Reviews Boop and Eve’s Road Trip by Mary Helen Sheriff is a […]
My Tiger: Living With Anxiety
Living with anxiety is like sharing a house with a tiger. Going about my daily business pretending it’s not there is not only pointless, it’s guaranteed to result in damage. Inevitably, something I do agitates the tiger and it bites. Growing up with undiagnosed anxiety meant nobody around me acknowledged the tiger, so I thought […]
A Long And Winding Roller Coaster
By Daisy Bateman I thought I had experienced everything publishing could throw at me. Then 2020 showed up and said, “Hold my beer.” My first book is being published this year. Not the first book I wrote, which was begun longhand in a loose leaf binder, sitting on the lawn outside my college dorm. Not […]
All In
My first book, Poetic License-A Memoir, was released in August. Publication day culminated a twenty-year quest to figure out who my father was to me over our long and complex relationship and to better define myself outside the shadow of his literary fame. The manuscript had been threaded through two full decades of my life, […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Heidi McCrary, Chasing North Star
Chasing North Star is a story centered around a band of siblings as they tackle the challenge of surviving a mentally unstable mother. The story takes place in 1970, back when cars had ashtrays and kids were free-range. While the novel is narrated by the youngest, who was nine at the time, it also features […]
A Psychologist Models Self-Therapy Through Writing
By Dr. Nancy Farber Kent Writing. Writing is a tool we can use to discover the solutions to our problems. I write, write, write my way to my answers. When feeling angry, afraid, sad, frustrated, lonely, I just start writing…and the answers come. From my experience, I have discovered that when we write, we unlock […]
What If Your Sister Wrote A Novel And It Sold More Copies Than Yours?
What if your sister wrote a novel and it sold more copies than yours? I’m sure you love your sister – of course you do! – but how would you feel if she suddenly decided to start writing novels when that has always been your territory? And what if her debut received better reviews and […]
How My Own HEA Inspired My Writing
Leo Tolstoy is famous for saying, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” I think the same thing is true when it comes to most happily ever afters; boy meets girl, boy gets girl, a misunderstanding happens, boy loses girl and then boy and girl reunite. But while […]
From Conception to Publication: Finding Frank by Rachel Townsend
Almost exactly three years ago, I was nearing the end of a Therapist’s Supervisor course in West Sussex in England, when a throwaway remark by one of my tutors planted a seed which has, ultimately, lead to the publication of my debut book, Finding Frank. I really must remember to send her a copy and […]
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