Tag: women writers
In Praise Of The Blind Item
I want to know less about more people. Admittedly, I’m partial. In researching and writing my new novel, Another Side of Paradise, I became thoroughly acquainted with Sheilah Graham, a columnist who pioneered gentle gossip even as she was the story, the last love of the very married (sorry, Zelda) F. Scott Fitzgerald. Call Sheilah’s […]
The Art of Co-Authoring
Writing is usually a solitary process. The author finds a story, fills it with characters and gets to decide who lives and who dies (at least until her editor gets involved). So most people’s response when I tell them that I write books with my sister is surprise: surprise that a creative process can be […]
How Publishing My Memoir Helped Me Write a Novel That Sold
I have a grinning photograph from the day my first paperback copies of LOST IN TRANSPLANTATION arrived, taken inside my car. I was so excited I didn’t even wait to get home to open the box. I ran back into our tiny post office and waved my book around, exclaiming “My book is here!” to […]
Why I Wrote My Three Books In My Pensioner Years
One morning in Budapest during the autumn of 1944, an unknown official in charge of deporting Hungarian Jews sent back all the women accompanied by children. My Mother, Leona Grunwald, was one of those women and I was a tiny baby in her arms. I have no means of knowing who that official was and […]
Q&A with Laurie Nadel, PhD
Laurie Nadel, PhD., is a specialist in acute stress, trauma and anxiety issues. She is a member of a critical incident stress management team working with first responders. After losing her home to Hurricane Sandy, Dr. Laurie ran long-term support groups for survivors. From 2003 to 2005, she directed a program for teenagers whose fathers were […]
How Writing Made Me a More Empathic Person
My seventh English language novel released on 22 May. Hedging His Bets is the story of a high-flying investor, Jake, and his sexy British flat mate, Jess, who share a “friends with benefits” relationship…until they don’t. Hedging His Bets may rightly be described as a light read. One reviewer called it a “summer must read”. […]
It’s Never Too Late
When it comes to writing fiction, I’m a late bloomer. Like, really late. I wrote my first historical romance novel when I was forty-six. So, what the hell have I been doing all those years? I like to think I was busy becoming a writer—I just took the looooong road. Or maybe just a really […]
If You Give a Writer a Book Contract, She’s Going to Want…Everything!
Eighteen months ago, I vowed that all I wanted was for any decent traditional publisher to offer me a book contract. I swore I’d be happy no matter how tiny the advance, how miniscule the press run, how scant the publicity, how few reviews, how many bookstore shelves it might not land upon. I’d be […]
Should You Rely On Memory?
When you’ve known a secret family story for four decades and you decide to transform the narrative into a historical novel, the big question is how much should you rely on memory and how much on documented research? In my case, the story my father told me was about our family’s original home in Nesvicz, […]
How The Italian Language Has Influenced My Writing
I have always considered myself a creative person, an artist and a designer. I have expressed myself through a variety of mediums — oil and acrylic and computer graphics — but I hadn’t defined myself as a writer per se. But that image of myself changed when I began to learn the Italian language fifteen years […]
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