Tag: women writers
On Writing: Janet Todd
I always wanted to write fiction. Over the years I started several novels—occasionally I even finished them. In subject they ranged from expatriate life in post-independence Ghana to a fictionalised biography of Mary Wollstonecraft’s unhappy sister. (Most attempts have gone out in black bin bags.) I had a family to support and it’s a lot […]
Debunking The Biggest Stereotypes About Erotic Writers
Not a week goes by that I don’t receive explicit come-ons via email or Facebook from people who discover that I write and edit erotica. Sometimes it’s dick pics, sometimes it’s intimate details of their lives, sometimes it’s simply discussing sex in a way that’s utterly inappropriate without my consent. The implication of these messages […]
10 Reasons To Be Less Productive During A Pandemic
1. You fear dying. Especially if you’re as much of a hypochondriac as I am. When I woke up with a headache, sore throat, and the dreaded DRY COUGH a couple of weeks ago, I feared the worst. I spent the next two days drinking lots of fluids, taking my (resolutely normal) temperature, and checking […]
A Debut Author’s Story: How Science Facts Inspired a Thriller by Eve Smith
Eve Smith’s debut novel, The Waiting Rooms, is set twenty years after an antibiotic crisis. A nurse hunts for her elderly birth mother, in a world where no one over seventy gets access to new drugs. I had the idea for my speculative thriller, The Waiting Rooms, after reading some frightening facts about antibiotic resistance. […]
What’s at Stake in Your Novel?
By Jill Caugherty What keeps readers riveted to a favorite novel, compulsively turning the pages? Sure, fast-paced action with car chases, gun fights, drug deals gone awry, and racy sex scenes might help, but many writers of character-driven fiction don’t rely on these techniques to ratchet up the tension. Instead, we often create conflict, and […]
Why, As A Woman, I Write About Famous Men
“Why do you write from the perspective of artists, instead of women, perhaps from the viewpoint of a maid?” The man who asked this question was a professor emeritus of art history at a top-tier university, which I won’t name here. (Note that he didn’t qualify the word artist with “male.” Apparently, that qualifier is […]
Practicing Inspiration
Can you really practice inspiration? We writers all want it, we all seek it, but mostly it seems to arrive on its own schedule, out of nowhere—a tiny light in the distance, or a sudden burst of joy, the sigh of relief and ahh, now I see! Here’s the right word, the missing image, the […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Alison Hammer
Alison Hammer, author of YOU AND ME AND US interviews her character CeCe. Recommended for fans of Jojo Moyes and Marisa de los Santos, Alison Hammer’s debut ought to be sold with a box of tissues. When Tommy is diagnosed with stage four cancer, his partner Alexis and daughter Cece must face their differences and […]
My Downton Abbey-Like Family History and the Writing of Greedy Heart, a Novel
My Downton Abbey-Like Family History and the Writing of Greedy Heart, a Novel Descending from the inventor who brought electrical power to New York City. Having your portrait done by an artist who painted presidents. Living with a world-famous fashion model as your mother. Wondering if a hushed-up family suicide was really foul play. Sounds […]
Interview With Barbara Probst
Barbara Probst’s novel QUEEN OF THE OWLS (April 2020) is the powerful story of a woman’s search for wholeness, framed around the art and life of iconic painter Georgia O’Keeffe. QUEEN OF THE OWLS has been selected as one of the 20 most anticipated books of 2020 by Working Mother and will be the May […]
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