Tag: women writers
US and UK editors: Double the fun – and double the edits?
By Anika Scott International situations are normal for me. I’m American, I live in Germany, and my wonderful agent is based in the UK. When the book deals for my debut novel Finding Clara (UK) / The German Heiress (US) started rolling in, I hadn’t really given a thought to how the editors at the […]
Finding Myself at The Great Big Ball of Hair in Jefferson, Texas
Barbara Linn Probst If you know what I’m referring to in the title of this piece, then you’ve been to the Pulpwood Queens’ Girlfriends Weekend, and you probably have a good idea what this essay will be about. But if you haven’t, and don’t, then read on. On second thought, read on either way. The […]
My obsession with Emily Warren Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge
She built a monument, then was lost in its shadow. My obsession with Emily Warren Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge I grew up in northern New Jersey, and New York City was like Oz to us. Not being able to afford the fancy restaurants and shows, we did the free stuff. My father loved to […]
Thoughts on Writing in a Time of Global Grieving
Kerry Schafer, also writing as Kerry Anne King, is the author of nine novels, including the Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller family drama, Whisper Me This. Check out her new podcast, Write Healthy, Write Whole, featuring tips on mind, body, spirit and creative health for writers. Over the last few days I’ve been on an […]
Living and Writing and Faith: Dispatch from Self-Isolation, Day 30
All I want to do is have coffee with my parents under a shade tree. It’s day 30 of self-isolating in the era of Covid-19. I’m sixty-five and immunosuppressed (a double-organ transplant patient) so I started drawing back during my spring break from N.C. State. The first week, I went out for groceries and once […]
Researching Settings from the Comfort of Your Home
By Jennifer S. Alderson A well-described setting can elevate your novel and help transport the reader into the story. Incorporating the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes one would experience in a specific place is easier than you may think, even if you can’t travel to the settings you want to describe. Because let’s face it, […]
CHARIS IN THE WORLD OF WONDERS: Excerpt
“When I swung over that windowsill, everything changed for me. We are meant to go in and out of doors in civilized style, but my mother bade me climb into woodsy wildness and a darkness flushed with crimson light and torches …” And so begins the long journey through the wilderness as Charis is forced […]
Unsealing Divorce
While researching the third novel in a trilogy for the Durant Family Saga, I tracked down and unsealed a divorce file from 1898. After this, I was left with a dilemma, what to do and how to unfurl the story about a man who covered up his adultery in an attempt to protect his reputation […]
Tinseltown or Bust? The Hollywood Dream, Part One
As writers, we often exist on dreams. We have to, or we wouldn’t write at all. The dream of a finished book, a published book, an agent, a publishing deal… It’s a common shared goal and for many of us, it does evolve from a dream into reality. But what about the Hollywood dream? How […]
The Magnolia Sisters: An Excerpt
I grew up in Ohio but have lived in Colorado for over twenty-five years. No matter how long I’m here, I’ll always consider myself a Midwestern girl at heart. I write sweet and sexy contemporary romance and have published over thirty books. I’m so excited about the release of The Magnolia Sisters, which kicks off […]
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