Tag: women writers
We Are Writing A New Story Right Now
by Stacey L. Tucker I’m sitting in my dining room viewing the world like most of you are viewing the world, from the inside looking out. We see a world falling apart. Many things have been removed from our routine: dressing for work, socializing, church, shopping. Some say they can’t wait until it goes back […]
What Self-Isolation Has Taught Me About Writing…
The first week of NYC going on PAUSE, I felt something inside of me die. Don’t get me wrong; I was and continue to support remote working and social distancing to stop the spread of the virus, even on days when self-isolation makes me feel desolate. My mind has been in agreement with Governor Cuomo’s […]
A Time Of Miracles
by Wendy Holden ‘AS long as I have music, then it is proof that beauty still exists in this world.’ So spoke sixteen-year-old piano prodigy Zuzana Růžičková in 1943 on the eve of being transported from the ghetto where most of her family had died to the even more unimaginable horrors of Auschwitz II-Birkenau and […]
Writing Unstoppable Female Characters During a Crisis — Two May Mystery Releases
Both C. Hope Clark and Carmen Amato have books releasing this month (May). What is it about strong women wanting to write about strong women? Are your lady protagonists shadows of yourselves? HOPE: Absolutely. Carolina Slade holds the same job I held with the US Department of Agriculture, Special Projects Representative, though maybe I embellished […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Alex Hart
When Harper Stein, a feisty photo-journalist discovers a young girl left alone in a New York shopping mall, the last thing she wants to do is mind the child until her mom turns up. However, when no one comes to claim her, Harper is left wondering who the hell she belongs to. Determined not to […]
Nicola Pryce: Why I Write
I wrote my first book, The Adventures of the Ten Green Bottles, when I was ten. I can remember being totally absorbed when writing it, even obsessed. Each bottle had a very distinct character, a name, and an adventure that matched their personality. Some made it back to the wall, others were way-laid by dastardly […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING THEIR CHARACTERS: CLAIRE S. LEWIS
A tense and moving psychological thriller with ideas of victim shaming, and false and recovered memories at its core… Celeste has been running from her past for seven years. But now her past has caught up with her. For seven years, Celeste has battled her guilt and shame over the tragic events that led to […]
Kelly Oliver, On Writing Historical Fiction
I love reading historical mysteries—Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody, Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs, Rhys Bowen’s Georgiana Rannoch, Sujata Massey’s Perveen Mistry. Recently, I wrote my first historical mystery, Betrayal at Ravenswick, a WW1 mystery featuring file clerk turned spy, Fiona Figg. It’s 1917, the height of the Great War, and a suspicious South African war correspondent […]
Irene Wittig, On Writing
My writing journey has been a long one, probably starting with stories drifting over my cradle, overheard while holding on to my mother’s hand as we walked to the market with friends, and told to me once I began asking questions. I was born during the war—World War II—ten days after the liberation of Rome. […]
Pandemic Writing Lessons
There’s no other way to say it: these weeks since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out have been extraordinary. Unprecedented. I’m not even sure the English language has an adequate adjective to describe this time. Possibly German does, with its magnificent ability to combine disparate words into one powerhouse concept. But I’m left with my own […]
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