Tag: women writers
Writing as Resistance: How Politics Shaped The Devil’s Revolver
By V.S. McGrath When I started dreaming up The Devil’s Revolver, sometime around 2010, all I wanted to do was tell a fun adventure story—a fantasy set in a world that wasn’t a stand-in for feudal-era Europe. At the time, I was playing the video game Red Dead Redemption and thought, why not the Wild […]
Online Writing Classes: She Writes University
WHAT IS SHE WRITES UNIVERSITY? She Writes University is the only online, live webinar-based writing program featuring online educational webinars by bestselling and award-winning authors, backed by a community of nearly 33,000 female writers. Attend these classes live online, or view the recordings whenever you can. The Fall 2019 semester features an exciting lineup of female […]
For Women Only?
I recently served on a panel to discuss the topic, “For Women Only,” at the Killer Nashville writers’ conference. It gave me a chance to think about how things have and haven’t changed for women writers in general, and women mystery writers, specifically. We’ve come a long way from the day when Mary Ann Evans […]
About Spinoffs—or Just Call Me Shirley by Liz Flaherty
About Spinoffs—or Just Call Me Shirley by Liz Flaherty I’m deep into promotion for The Healing Summer, my…I don’t know…severaleth book, and a question I’m asked on every review site and in every interview is Is this book part of a series? I’m embarrassed to admit I’m not sure I’ve mastered its answer. So I […]
Researching Historical Fiction: Immersing Oneself in the Past
When I decided to write a story set in the 16th century, I knew that a lot of research lay ahead. It actually turned out to be a whole year of research. I studied monarchs and dates of wars, major events and conflicts, and of course the central subject of the book: witchcraft accusations. But […]
Nevertheless, She Persisted
A gluttonous reader since childhood, I have always wanted to write. The first time I dropped out of school I took a typewriter to a Caribbean island to write the great American novel. I didn’t do it, but I read Middlemarch, Tristram Shandy, and Moby Dick. I wrote a few short stories as my son […]
Making Peace with Your ‘One-Star’
Reviews are one of the many details no one seems to mention on the long and arduous journey to publication. I’m not talking trade reviews, which can be grand, tepid, or disappointing, but typically not down-in-the-gutter mean. I’m talking about individual reviews on Amazon and Goodreads that, depending on the word choice, can smack an […]
I am a Writer When I am Writing
“Accept being unimportant.” Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching As a musician, writer, wife and mother, it matters to me that these labels are just that—merely labels. Descriptors or definers but never confiners. If I am slapping bumper stickers on my car such as “I’d Rather Be Writing” or “Without Music Life Would Bb” I’m telling you […]
The Side Effects of Being an Author
I never planned to become an author. Don’t get me wrong, I love writing. So much so, I have published two novels, Grace & The Ghost and Angel’s Rebellion. But my initial dream, was to write something and simply get one book printed so I could place it casually on the footstool and adopt a […]
Battle Cry
I am a woman who is queer and who enjoys sex, and who is generally positive and, perhaps naively, has faith that the world and the people in it are fundamentally ‘good’ and in their nature predisposed not to judge each other. As a writer and an academic, especially at the very start of my […]
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