Tag: women writers
When A Title Is Magic
Some writers have a tough time coming up with titles. Others don’t. I usually don’t have a difficult time with titles; however, I did find myself in that position recently. I thought about why I was stuck and what I realized was that I had forced the title on the story rather than let it […]
Author A.R. TAYLOR interviews her main character, JENNA MCCANN from her new novel, JENNA TAKES THE FALL.
Perfect for fans of Followers by Megan Angelo and If You’re Happy and You Know It by Laura Hankin, JENNA TAKES THE FALL by A. R. Taylor (September 1, She Writes Press) is a darkly humorous, at times absurd, coming-of-age novel that examines the life of a young woman who becomes infamous before she becomes anybody at all. At just twenty-four, Jenna McCann […]
Catch a Passing Thought – Writing Dreams They Forgot
My new book Dreams They Forgot is a collection of twenty-three short stories, a mosaic of diverse characters travelling the high and low roads of time and place. An Irish woman immigrates to 1800s South Australia in search of the land of plenty. A man burdened by secrets appears on a 1970s TV game show. […]
Is “Manifestation” Real? A Skeptic Tries it and Reports Back (with a Book Deal)
By Alexis Rockley I’m an “evidence or it doesn’t exist” kind of skeptic when it comes to self-help, so when I learned about “manifestation” in early 2017, I rolled my eyes. But, like any self-care crazed millennial, raised on equal parts skepticism and optimism—I was curious. Two years and a lot of research later, I […]
This Too Shall Pass
We read historical fiction for a range of reasons beyond the pleasure of being immersed in another time and place. It gives us the chance to see beyond the names and dates, acts of Parliament and movements of armies to the people who lived through the great moments of history. We are led to imagine […]
An Epidemic of Invisibility by Meghan Holloway
My recently published thriller, HUNTING GROUND, is dedicated to the women who have disappeared, to the women who have felt their vulnerability, and to the women who have been forgotten. I was plotting this story when Mollie Tibbetts went out for a run near her home in Brooklyn, Iowa, one evening in July of 2018 […]
10 Questions for a “Terrifyingly Blunt” Literary Agent By S.L. McInnis
The Helen Heller Literary Agency has been in business for over thirty years. Though based in Toronto, it’s a worldwide success story and it’s just as likely you’ll find Helen making deals in London or New York. Her hit clients include Shari Lapena, Gilly Macmillan, Linwood Barclay and others who regularly appear on the NYT and Sunday […]
How Studying Psychology Has Influenced My Writing
This is a ‘what came first – the chicken or the egg’ kind of question for me, or as my daughter asked me last week – the seed or the tree? Did my study of psychology influence my writing, or did my love of stories and characters develop into a love of psychology? Even as […]
Finding Common Ground
Debra Thomas eloquently tells the story of millions of immigrants in her upcoming novel LUZ. She has worked with immigrant communities in Southern California for decades, is an immigrants rights activist, has toured with Amnesty International to the US/Mexico border (speaking to people of both sides of the border, including Border Patrol agents). Finding Common […]
On Writing HERE SHE IS: The Complicated Reign of the Beauty Pageant in America
I wrote Here She Is: The Complicated Reign of the Beauty Pageant in America, a book that uses beauty pageants to show how American femininity has changed over the centuries, because I thought it was a book I was uniquely positioned to author. I’m a sociologist and professor at Brown University, where one of my […]
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