Tag: women writers
My Journey To Publication: Anita Frank
Like most would-be writers, I have dreamt of being an author since I was a child. I had my first stab at getting published in my late teens when, encouraged by their open submissions policy, I sent a couple of truly awful romances to Mills and Boon. They were, of course, both promptly rejected, but […]
How Grief Changed My Reading
Books have been my companions since childhood. The books, the stories, the characters all woven into my life. When my days had been full of people and when I’ve been alone. I grew up with my nose forever in a book. I was in Great Books in elementary school, majored in English Literature in college, […]
Not Our Grandmother’s 70
By Jayne Martin If someone had told me when I was 30, that I would be publishing my first book of short fiction at the age of 70, undoubtedly I would have smirked and said, “From where? A rocker at the old folks’ home?” Only the young can be so cocky. In all fairness, at age […]
How to Market a Backlisted Book
Diana Y. Paul, author of Things Unsaid Once buzz of a new book has died down, there’s nothing you can do to market that book except publish the next one. Is that the myth you’ve accepted? You can continue marketing a book effectively to reach new readers well after its release date. Think of how […]
The Catharsis of Memoir Writing by Beth Ruggiero York
by Beth Ruggiero York Author of Flying Alone: A Memoir It takes courage to write a memoir. Sort of like going to confession if you are Catholic. If you want absolution, you must admit to all the stupid things you’ve done. Similarly, if you want to sell your story, you must bare your moments of […]
Rediscovering Writing After Publication
As a child, when asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I never said firefighter or ballerina or astronaut. I wanted to be a writer. In college, and when I first started writing seriously in my twenties, I loved the world that writing created. When I was writing, or thinking about writing, […]
Butchering Eels By Julie E. Justicz
I dreaded the moment for years—through the early drafts and the revisions, through the long slog to complete the novel, through its acceptance by a small press, through several rounds of copy-editing, right up to the printing of advance review copies (ARCs). I worried and I wondered: What will my mother think when she reads […]
What Do We Really Want?
I hate writing. That isn’t true. Not exactly. There are loads things I love about writing fiction, like exploring characters, dreaming up of the next plot point (even if plot and I are never best friends), discovering in a story (and myself) something I didn’t know I would. I especially love rewriting, when the hard […]
Interview with Lydia Grey, one of The Silver Ladies of London
My name is Lesley Eames and I write 1920s-set historical romances. The first of these, The Silver Ladies of London was shortlisted in the 2019 UK Romantic Novel Awards run by the Romantic Novelists’ Association together with Goldsboro Books. I’m delighted to be introducing Women Writers to one of those Silver Ladies, Lydia Grey, who […]
Burn It Down
When an editor at Seal Press approached me in March, 2018 and asked if I might be interested in editing an anthology of essays on women’s anger, I waited to hear what the catch was going to be. There was no way such a perfect project could just fall into my lap! It felt like […]
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