Tag: women writers
Tools Of The Trade And Other Delights
Tools of the Trade and other Delights Some writers have virtual and literal filing cabinets full of story ideas. Sadly, I’m not one of those writers. I consider myself a serial monogamist. I give myself to one story at a time. No matter how many novels I’ve written, in between I spend/waste time fretting that […]
How Writing And Acting Overlaps
A few years ago, I walked to the first day of rehearsal for a play. I had not recognised the building from the address, but as I got closer the sense of place was overwhelming. The church rooms near the back of Highbury Corner used to house the nursery school I attended when I was […]
Liberty Brought Us Here: The True Story of American Slaves Who Migrated to Liberia
Susan E. Lindsey Many years ago, I stumbled across a few lines that would evolve into my book, Liberty Brought Us Here: The True Story of American Slaves Who Migrated to Liberia. I read that Ben Major, a Kentucky slave owner, had freed his enslaved people who then sailed to Liberia. He corresponded with them […]
Cooking Up A Book by Cauvery Madhavan
by Cauvery Madhavan Twenty years ago, I abandoned my husband and three children for a brief ten days and headed down to deepest West Cork to figure out if I wanted to be a writer or a cook. Was I going to start my first novel or was I going to make something out of […]
Do You Have The Courage To Put Your Life On Paper?
Courage is Fear Walking. I was in Italy with my son Francis in 2002. He was 16 at the time and in private school. From first grade through the twelfth grade the students were taught Latin. It’s one of those subjects that can help you in a spelling bee but otherwise not useful in daily […]
My First Pub Date: Hand-Wringing and Epiphanies by Kristen Rademacher
In the weeks before the release of my memoir, I took to my bed. Yes, I know how dramatic and affected I sound, almost as bad as if reporting an attack of the vapors. But truthfully and for a brief stint, my rational, even-keeled self left the room, leaving behind a puny me who climbed […]
Twins As Fictional Characters
People often ask me why I chose to have twins as two of the main characters in my debut novel, The Takeaway Men. And also, since I am not a twin myself, how did I get into their heads and depict them accurately? The fraternal twin girls in my Historical Fiction book, Bronka and JoJo, […]
Writing A Girl Made of Air – Nydia Hetherington
Writers are often asked about their process, about the hows and wherefores of getting a novel onto the page. In truth, I’m not sure what my process is. For me, writing A Girl Made of Air was a leap of faith. In my former life I’d created fictional worlds through devised theatre in Paris, where […]
From Translating Dostoyevski to Writing Fiction
Natasha Randall’s debut novel Love Orange is out now from riverrun (Hachette). She has translated many novels from the Russian including Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground, Zamyatin’s We, and Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time. Her words have appeared in The Yale Review, the TLS, the LATimes Book Review, The Moscow Times and in Strad magazine. We asked her how translating […]
Guns Under The Bed: Memories of a Young Revolutionary
The debut of my memoir, Guns Under the Bed: Memories of a Young Revolutionary, (Odyssey Books/AU), has been moved back from June 1 to September 1, 2020, because the bookstores where launch events were scheduled have had to close due to the pandemic. Disappointing, but given all that’s happening, it’s a small thing. Still, I’d […]
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