Tag: women writers
Cooking And Writing
I’m at one of those spots in my book where I’ve made a wrong turn somewhere, and I don’t quite know what the mistake is. Maybe a character did something wrong. Maybe a scene has veered off-track. Maybe a backstory bit that’s not going to work with the emerging story. Something. And until I figure […]
On How Writing “The Lion Tamer Who Lost ” Opened My Eyes A Little Wider…
I recently got the advance proof of my fourth novel, The Lion Tamer Who Lost. It was just as thrilling to hold it in my trembling hand as when I received my debut book, and my second one, and even my third. Perhaps more exciting in many ways. Because this one had been a slog. […]
Searching For My Voice In An Empty Nest
“Most people who experience midlife crisis have spent their entire lives raising a family or working on a career. They haven’t had the time or the capacity to ask the important questions in life. Eventually, something triggers the question, ‘Is this all there is?’ “ Not long ago, I came across this quote by Mateo […]
How Training In Artistic Disciplines Is Good For Business
How training in artistic disciplines is good for business contrary to popular belief By Sharon Rowe, author of The Magic of Tiny Business: You Don’t Have to Go Big to Make a Great Living and founder of Eco-Bags Products Writing is like acting is like entrepreneurship. It’s an art, a discipline and, if you choose, […]
On (Re)Writing Real-Life Tragedy
On (re)writing real-life tragedy Every author who comes out with a new book gets asked, “What was your inspiration for writing this story?” For Three Days Missing, it was two things that happened all at once. The first was an idea that woke me up in the middle of the night. A child goes missing […]
How to Treat Writing Like a Business
For a moment, think of yourself as a business. That’s the theme in my second book, The Business of Being: Soul Purpose In and Out of the Workplace. And so it is with wordsmithing. How do you approach your writing? Some writers treat their writing as a hobby—a story here, a column there, with a […]
Why And How I Write Novels About Tough Subjects
I’m not sure when my fascination with the resiliency of the human spirit and the will to survive began, but it shows in the topics I choose for my novels. Maybe it was during my childhood trips to visit my grandparents in Germany, while listening to their stories about devastating poverty and living through WWII—how […]
How Living In Holland Helps Me Write British Books
I’m writing this sprawling on my sofa in my Amsterdam apartment. It’s the morning after the England football team made history, winning a spot in the semi-finals of the World Cup for the first time since I was ten. The streets outside are sunny and the silence is occasionally punctuated with the rickety whine of […]
Writing About Synaesthesia and Face Blindness: Bee Larkham’s Murder
I FIRST came across synaesthesia – which is at the heart of my novel, The Colour of Bee Larkham’s murder – during my work as a freelance education journalist. Researchers at Edinburgh University had carried out the first ever study into the prevalence in childhood of the condition that causes a ‘merging of the senses’. […]
From Wildlife Vet to Writer
When I was small I wanted to be an author. From the time I could hold a pen and form sentences, I knew writing was for me. By age eight, I was creating novels remarkably similar to Elyne Mitchell’s Silver Brumby series. Then, at a family gathering when I was twelve, everything changed. A brusque […]
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