Tag: women writers
Writing And Belonging, Daisy McNally
I came to live in a city five years ago and felt foreign and uneasy for the first twelve months and the best part of the next. Of course, cities are busy places and that was not unexpected. It just seemed that all the all the busy-ness was connected; whether those I came across were […]
Self Publishing In Perspective
Two years ago, I became a widow at the age of 45. My lovely husband Ian died at home following a year-long battle with cancer. He was only 52. As I held his hand, he took his last breaths and his heart slowly and peacefully came to a stop. And that moment altered me forever. […]
How Fire Led To Writing
In March 2017, a fire ripped through my home, burning off the roof and destroying most of the interior. Thankfully nobody was injured but I was in the house alone when the fire took hold. The feeling of helplessness, as I stood outside and watched the flames and smoke billow from my house, is something […]
The Inspiration Behind Blood For Blood
‘Where do you get the ideas for your books?’ is one of the questions many writers I know dread. Afterall, how do you explain the apparently illogical flashes of inspiration that seem to come out of nowhere? The follow-up to BLOOD FOR BLOOD (NOTHING TO LOSE, coming out at the end of March) popped into […]
Love_Is_Love: Anthology For LGBTQIA+ teens
Love_Is_Love is a collection of poems, short stories, and visual art for LGBTQIA+ teens, edited by Emma Eden Ramos. We are delighted to share one of the collection’s poems and two of the artworks. Shapeshifter By Robin Anna Smith I exist somewhere between ` a match and a flame, a tear and the sea, a […]
My Midlife Career
I didn’t set out to become a women’s fiction author. As with most things in my life, I happened into it. I’ve always been an avid reader and often wondered whether I had at least one novel in me. My brother died of a drug overdose in 1999. Several years later, when I was still struggling […]
Writing a Novel on Ballet in Pre-Revolutionary Russia
Historical fiction allows us to time travel; we step into the past with a sense of wonder and awe, and the famous names become more than a list of people we learned about in textbooks and school history classes. They become people. The idea for my historical fiction novel was sparked by a single sentence. […]
Giving Birth To A Book
How writing a book is the same as having a baby, but without the gas and air. As a mother and a writer, I’ve often thought that the process of becoming a writer is akin to having a baby. ‘Oh lovely! Is this your first book?’ they ask, or ‘When is this one due out?’ […]
Light Shines in the Darkness
Drenched with guilt, I raced to the altar to confess my sins. I was six years old. I was full of guilt and shame because I was being sexually abused by the hired man on our farm. Nine years later I was sexually abused by my brother-in-law, Edmond. I told my parents but they only […]
Every Story Is A Survival Story
For as long as I can recall I’ve been trying to save things. I remember clearly the baby robin that fell out of its nest. My mother and I fed him and kept him in a birdcage, so a cat couldn’t get him, right under the cherry tree he fell from in our backyard. Every […]
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