Tag: women writers
Fishing And Writing At The Creek
Caleb is in the creek, his back toward me. Fly fishing. The creek is swollen, redolent with moss and muck. The sleeves on his flannel shirt are rolled up, the better to pitch the leader and tippet downstream, which he does with impressive concentration at first. He stretches back his shoulder and almost slips—the creek […]
Why My Novels are Filled with My Food Obsession and How Writing ‘Waisted’ Changed My Life
By Randy Susan Meyers I grew up in a family where food was considered the comforting evil or evil comfort—but never just comfort. Never just food. My mother—for whom dress size was the holy grail—watched every bite I took. When in a restaurant, first she’d not order what she wanted and then she’d steal bites from […]
Telling Women’s Truths: Privilege and Peril
By Kate Kaufmann By gathering the stories I needed to hear, I found the book I was meant to write. When you don’t have kids, life unfolds differently than it does for parents. There are no blueprints, only a plethora of possibilities. Always a searcher, I wanted to know how other women like me went […]
An Interview with Caroline Taylor
No stranger to the thriller world, veteran author Caroline Taylor is back with her latest thriller with more action, adventure, and narrow escapes. Death in Delmarva (Black Rose Writing, March 21, 2019) will keep you turning the pages until every secret is revealed. We are delighted to feature this interview with her! Tell us a […]
Why Crime?
I always knew I wanted to be a writer but it never seemed like an actual career choice. I left school without many qualifications and found myself homeless for a year in my late teens. It was a tough time but one thing that I’ve always done, and which I continued to do, even on […]
After the Book Launch: Afterglow or Aftermath? Part Two
Are we strengthened or rendered vulnerable by putting our truth into the hands of strangers? Read Part One HERE By Cathy Park Kelly I spoke to three authors who have been published in the past year: Tracy Going’s – an award-winning former South African TV and radio news anchor – haunting memoir tells of her […]
Slow Writing
We live in a fast-paced world. Technology is changing at an exponential rate, our satellite phone calls bounce into space and back again in a heartbeat, and a Japanese bullet train can take you from Tokyo to Osaka in 150 minutes. Sometimes I feel hopelessly behind, because unlike virtually everything else around me, I am […]
Appearances: Fictionalizing Life
What do you do when your sister, who never smoked, gets diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer? And on top of that, what do you do when the people you love most this world, your husband and your family, can’t stand to be in the same room together? Appearances is a fictionalized version of […]
Interview With Rachel Howard, Author of The Risk Of Us
What makes a family? What makes a family risky? In Rachel Howard’s fearless and deeply empathetic novel THE RISK OF US (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; April 2019), she tackles not only what creates kinship – but what can destroy it. Told through the lens of a childless forty-something couple who become foster parents of a young […]
Dresses—Reinvented
When I was the Chief Brand Officer of ELLE Décor and Metropolitan Home, there was a showroom-event-a-minute and a trade show every month. It was a role that demanded that I look the part—stylish, sophisticated, and decked out in designer clothes. The first two I had reasonably down, but any funds for a high-end brand wardrobe were limited. […]
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