Tag: women writers
And Still I Write
In the early spring of 2013, my husband and I left our careers in Seattle to move to a remote peninsula in the northwest reaches of the state. It’s the place where we’d intended to retire someday, but we had another twenty years of work ahead of us. After crisscrossing the country and oceans to […]
Q&A with Laura Bradford, Literary Agent
The Bradford Literary Agency is a boutique agency which offers a full range of representation services to authors who are both published and pre-published. Our mission at the Bradford Literary Agency is to form true partnerships with our clients and build long-term relationships that extend from writing the first draft through the length of the […]
Engineers, Authors, and Assassins – Thriving in a Nontraditional Field
Men have accomplished most “firsts” in history, but there are some notable exceptions. A woman invented Kevlar. A woman discovered pulsars. A woman wrote the first computer program. More surprisingly, the world’s first serial killer belonged to the more “fragile” and “demure” gender. I first came across that fact last fall: the world’s first serial […]
The Why Of Writing
With the release of my second novel, Light of the Northern Dancers, I am increasingly asked by those finding the vocation self-indulgent, “Why DOES anyone write?” Those putting their fingers to a keyboard 5-10 hours a day understand. Those who don’t, perhaps never will unless they recognize the role stories play in humanity’s survival. Ultimately, […]
How to Write Your First Fiction Novel for Adults
It’s a dream so many of us share: walking into a bookshop and seeing your face staring back at you from the jacket of your very first novel. You love reading, you’re not afraid of a challenge; you’re ready to start your first fiction novel. Now what? Having just had the paperback of my first […]
How Working as a Commisioning Editor Helped me Become an Author
There are a LOT of characters roaming around inside my head. Some good, some bad, some murderous, some loveable. There’s even some loveable murderers in the mix at times. Working as a commissioning editor, I spend my days wrapped up in the fascinating world of other writers’ novels – from Sunday Times bestsellers to debut […]
Memoir: You Gotta Feel to Heal
If you want to gain 20+ pounds, lose all worldly ambition, have drinking dreams after 33 years of sobriety, and hermit away with no interest in dating—except for the nights when you venture to the movies and spend the evening with a tub of buttered popcorn—then memoir may be the genre for you. I was […]
The Integrity Advantage
I couldn’t believe I was back there again! It had been years since I found myself doing laps around the kitchen compulsively looking for the next bit of comfort food to stuff in my mouth. It had been ten years since that desire to binge swept over me like a tsunami. Actually, it had been […]
Love Letters for Hitler
We tend to imagine the relationship between Britain and the fascist dictatorships of Europe as one of clear-cut hostility. A sensible, tolerant nation against a bloodthirsty tyrant; a kind of reassuring, Lord of the Rings-like tale. However, the reality was a great deal more complicated – and a great deal darker. It is in the […]
6 Months After Publishing…
EDEN turns 6 months old on November 2. After experiencing a dream come to life on my May 2 “pub day”, I had never understood that’s also when the meter started running on my book’s relevance. Thirty or sixty days out and bookstores take books off displays and shelves; downright cantankerous with the suggestion of […]
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