Tag: women writers
Why my Attitude To Writing Changed
I’ve always enjoyed writing and harboured dreams of being ‘a writer’ from an early age. However, becoming ‘a writer’ is easier said than done and the dream had to take second place to the real world. When my children were young I would make stories up for them and that was about as far as […]
An Author’s Search for Place from Mali to Italy
‘You crawl over. You are in Hong Kong. Outside, everything is fumy with light.’ From an early age I knew I would leave my country. Like many authors, I was bookish and removed, and a childhood tragedy made me determined to leave pain behind and head to Europe. At 21 I was a skinny shoplifter […]
How To Publish And Sell A Book That You Are Told No-One Will Want To Buy
“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.” Toni Morrison. We knew that this book was needed. So many women were approaching us with the same questions: why has my career stalled? How do I get it back on […]
Bringing Back a Favorite Character
My second book, Our Love Could Light The World, is a collection of linked stories about the Dugan family in the fictional town of Dunston, New York. The Dugans are made up of the parents, Potter and Lavinia, and their five children. Potter drinks and can’t hold down a job. Lavinia works like mad to […]
My Book Club Made Me An Author
My book group formed seven years ago. A dozen busy, smart, book-obsessed women in Portland, Oregon, we’re probably not that different from most neighborhood book clubs. We struggle to make time for reading, there’s always someone who confesses that she hasn’t had time to finish the book, and there’s usually another who clearly didn’t finish, […]
Is Seasoned Romance a Real Thing?
So what’s up with the world of romance novels? Why is it that if you’re a woman of a certain age, then nobody wants to read about your love life? All of us fifty- and sixty-somethings and beyond are still falling in love, rediscovering love, renewing love, and by golly, we’re still having sex, and […]
Optical Research
“Of course it wasn’t a romantic getaway,” I said in 2015, after spending Valentine’s Weekend in Paris. “It was optical research!” And after tramping the Paris streets searching for wartime locations for my second book, The English Agent, I had the blisters on my feet and scribbles in my notebook to prove it (although I’ll […]
Discovering Fiction Readers Preferences, Habits and Attitudes ~~ by M.K. Tod
Readers and writers – a symbiotic relationship. Ideas spark writers to create stories and build worlds and characters for readers’ consumption. Readers add imagination and thought to interpret those stories, deriving meaning and enjoyment in the process. A story is incomplete without both reader and writer. What then do readers want? What constitutes a compelling […]
Read. Write. Reflect. : Excerpt
Monica Bhide is an internationally renowned writer known for sharing food, culture, love, and life with a lyrical voice and universal appeal. Her tenth book, READ. WRITE. REFLECT: Inspiration for Creative Minds”, is now available in digital and paperback. READ — FOCUS A few years ago, I found myself in a difficult spot. I was […]
According to a Source author Abby Stern Gives Us A VIP Tour of the Red Carpet
I’ve been drawn to creative writing since early childhood. When a creative writing class was an option as an elective in middle school, I knew it would be my elective. I was on the staff of my school’s literary magazine throughout high school and then switched my focus to screenplays. I’d never set out to […]
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