Tag: women writers
Midwife to Author: A Winding Path
I didn’t exactly decide to be an author, but as a midwife, I’d always been a storyteller. I used stories to teach, to warn, to share personal experiences, to make patients laugh, but I had no aspirations to be an author. I even kept a journal for years and wrote poetry, most of it bad, but there […]
Rea Frey On Becoming A Writer
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” I ask my daughter this loaded (and wholly unfair) question. She studies me with her missing front tooth. The new one pushes through slick pink gums like a slice of bread easing out of a toaster. “Happy,” she says. My mom heart swells while my […]
My Grandmother Was an Elf!
Have you ever wanted to know an elf? I’ve known them, all my life. I hail from an Irish family, which is why the gift of gab comes so easily, and why I’ve always been enchanted by elves. Maybe that’s why we named our production company Elfenworks. Hello! You don’t know me, because my work […]
Believe in Happy Ever After: Author Branding is More Than Genre
Believe in Happy Ever After: Author Branding is More Than Genre Believe in Happy Ever After. This is the tag line that appears in the header of my author website and a lot of people ask me why. It took quite some time to come up with an appropriate tag line, a sentence or phrase, […]
Writing Ireland’s Social History
How a tragedy and a passion to give voice caused me to self-publish my debut fiction novel focusing on Ireland’s Social History. Back in March 2017 I was not a person who religiously watched the daily news bulletins or read the daily news-papers. On March 3rd last year I called my mother to wish her […]
My Road To Publication
My debut novel, a psychological thriller called Keep You Safe is published on 17th August. It follows the story of Natalie, who is convicted of a crime she can’t remember committing and separated from her baby son, Harry, for over three years. Her husband has divorced her and taken their son to live on the […]
Becoming Starlight: an Excerpt
Becoming Starlight Excerpted from Becoming Starlight: A Shared Death Journey from Darkness to Light by Sharon Prentice, PhD. Copyright © 2018 by Sharon Prentice. https://sharonprentice.com Heaven. There are many different words for it in many different languages. And each day, it’s a “place” that’s referred to more than any other in the world. Why? Every […]
From Facebook Posts and Grocery Lists to Book
What does a Facebook-posting, grocery-list-writing mom of seven do when a story pops into her head—for the first time in her life? She writes it down. And when the next story pops into her head, she writes that one down, too. The next thing she knows, she’s on a journey to publishing her first book. […]
Retirement and Writing
The thought of retirement is an anxious and exciting proposition. The end of a career can leave us wondering who we are and who we will become without our job description. Visions of unscheduled and endless expanses of time offer contradictory images of boredom and fulfillment. What will we do to fill the hours that […]
The Unexpected Writing Prompt that Began My Career
I never wanted to be a writer much less an author. Two negative experiences in the classroom convinced me I did not have that talent. In high school, an English teacher I greatly admired reviewed a poem I’d written about the death of my beloved dog. She told me the poem was “maudlin,” a term […]
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