Tag: women writers
Tips for Writing During Tough Times
These days, it seems as if thinking or speaking about anything else except our COVID-19 pandemic seems frivolous or selfish. I mean, why should any of us bother to create or write anything good when our inner and outer worlds have gone so bad? Self-Sabotaging Our Creative Selves In the face of crisis, many of us suspend […]
What’s in Your Drawer? By Ann Lewinson
What’s in Your Drawer? By Ann Lewinson You’ve probably spent at least some of the past six weeks cleaning out closets and drawers and making room in your kitchen cabinets for all those canned beans. And after throwing out some ancient William Sonoma mulling spices and washing equally ancient bandanas on hot, perhaps you came […]
Jennifer Cohen: On Writing Falling Forward
As a new mom and marketing executive, it wasn’t always easy to find the time to write, edit, re-write, edit again, but I did it. Because that’s what we do for the things that matter, don’t we? We simply make the time. Falling Forward, my debut contemporary women’s fiction novel, was published on May18th, 2020 […]
DANCING IN THE NARROWS: An Excerpt
May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month. Anna Penenberg’s new book, Dancing in the Narrows, is about her journey to self-discovery as the mother of a Lyme Disease patient. “Dancing in the Narrows” chronicles a mother and daughter’s multiyear journey through illness and trauma. At sixteen, Anna’s youngest daughter, Dana, is stricken with a mysterious debilitating condition, […]
The spark for A WEEK AT THE SHORE
The spark for A WEEK AT THE SHORE Given that I’ve written more than 80 books, approaching a new one is daunting. There are times when I feel I’ve written every story there is to be written – times when I have to struggle to leave my comfort zone in search of an original idea. […]
Q and A With Dete Meserve
Dete Meserve is an accomplished creator and producer of films and award-winning television shows as well as a best-selling and award-winning novelist. Meserve adapted her first novel, Good Sam, into a screenplay and produced it as a Netflix Original Film starring Tiya Sircar (The Good Place). The film was released worldwide in May 2019. Her […]
It’s Been Quite A Process
By Kimberly Dredger Last week, I held in my hands something precious, unbelievable. My first—likely only— novel. What a kick! It’s been quite a journey. The writing of it was magic. Instead of sleep, I’d lie in bed writing passages in my head, and then arise in the wee hours, and type madly. The characters […]
A Kid Interviewer’s Suggestions for Talking with Your Children
As a loving aunt to eight children and a writer who regularly interviews kids, I always ask myself whether I have listened closely and long enough to hear a child’s wisdom in any given conversation. I know for sure every sufficiently verbal kid has insights to share, and I see it as my job to […]
The Background to Writing White Snake Diary: Exploring Self-Inscribers
By Jane P. Perry I am an ethnographer. I write through the words, sounds, actions and ephemera of others. When I found a collection of photos chronicling milestones in one girl’s life, I became intrigued with the idea of telling a Coming of Age story using memorabilia and recollections: diary entries, vignettes sparked by snapshots, […]
Broth from the Cauldron: A Wisdom Journey through Everyday Magic: an Excerpt
How does a Republican girl, raised in an agnostic scientific household, become a Pagan Priestess? Broth from the Cauldron: A Wisdom Journey Through Everyday Magic (May 12, She Writes Press) by Cerridwen Fallingstar shares profound insight in this charming and wholly unique memoir of meditations on topics such as perception, fear, anger, trauma, healing, magic and […]
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