Tag: women writers
Interview with Kimberly Collins
Kimberly Collin’s Blood Creek gives voice to the women who fought during the West Virginia Coal Mine Wars of the early 1900s. Collins dives into the lesser-known coal mine wars and tells the untold story of the women of Appalachia. Ellie Cline arrives in West Virginia the talk – and envy – of the town, […]
Fear Provides Us With the Opportunity to Slay Dragons
By Laurie Buchanan, PhD Everyone has fears. Fear of spiders. Fear of heights. Fear of confined spaces. If you’re reading this article, there’s a good chance that you’re a writer—a female writer. There’s an even higher chance that at some point, fear has kept you from writing. Here are a few common writing-related fears: Am […]
What Breed is Your Writer?
Dogs come in many different shapes and sizes, and they have very different characteristics. While training my puppy, a Labrador retriever named Capone, I spent a lot of time around other puppies, and realized something astonishing. Different breeds of dogs are like different types of writers. This seemed like such an extraordinary idea, but when […]
Writing to Market
There’s this fun little thing in publishing called “writing to market.” Writing to market means picking your genre, characters, central storyline etc. according to what readers want to read at that moment. It’s a brilliant strategy, right? Unless you’re me. I don’t create stories based on demand; I can’t. I write based on character. For […]
INTERVIEW WITH NICOLE MEIER
Nicole Meier is a native Southern Californian who pulled up roots and moved to the Pacific Northwest, where she lives with her husband, three children, and one very nosey Aussiedoodle. Her debut novel, THE HOUSE OF BRADBURY, was chosen as a Best Book of 2016 by Refinery29. Her second novel, THE GIRL MADE OF CLAY, was […]
Six Books in Three Years: An Indie Publishing Journey By Susan Cushman
The quickly changing world of book publishing can be a difficult terrain to traverse for a new writer. After spending a decade “prepping” for this leg of the journey by writing and publishing essays in various journals and magazines and building a platform on social media, I was finally ready to publish a book. And […]
Take a Little Off the Top: Seven Tips to Help You Self-Edit Your Novel Manuscript
By Susan K. Hamilton There’s no feeling quite like completing the first draft of your manuscript. There is an immense feeling of satisfaction, even of triumph. That giddiness, however, can quickly be subsumed by the dawning realization of what’s on the horizon: editing. Editing can be a daunting prospect, but it is one hundred percent […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Susy Norman interviews Marcus
In the novel, The Ground is Full of Holes, Marcus, a consultant anaesthetist in a busy London hospital, is trying to cope with the demands of the operating theatre and the dying days of an extra-marital affair. The author, Suzy Norman, interviews Marcus. What is the most important thing we need to know about you? […]
Writing for Small Markets Gives You Power
By Elizabeth Ann Quirino When you pitch your writing, or manuscripts, and you’re told “You’re a niche market. Ethnic topics are a hard sell,” don’t be discouraged. Do not feel like you are the small fish in a big pond. There is an advantage to being a writer in a niche market. A niche market […]
Out of the File Drawer and Onto the Page: My Journey from Writer to Author
I didn’t set out to write a memoir, or a book, or even a story. The scraps of memory that eventually became Waking in Havana began to surface as I sat at my small formica kitchen table, placed a cassette in the ancient tape recorder I had unearthed from a jumble of give-away items in […]
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