Tag: women writers
How Writing one Letter Turned into a Book
By Carol Van Den Hende Dear Women Writers, If you could pen a letter to anyone, living or dead, real or imaginary, who would you write to? Would you write about something left unsaid? That question sparked my fourth book, my collection of personal letters and true stories called Dear Orchid. Funny enough, my earliest […]
A Hero Lives Here, by Eileen Goudge
A Hero Lives Here, by Eileen Goudge “Eileen Goudge writes like a house on fire, creating characters you come to love and hate to leave.” What’s not to love about this blurb by Nora Roberts? Not only does it come from the mistress of propulsive fiction herself, but it sums up who I am as […]
Dear Bobby: On Writing Love letters to my Late Husband
Dear Bobby: On writing love letters to my late husband by Diana Papalia Zappa On December 8, 2018, my beloved husband Bob Zappa passed away from hereditary amyloidosis. We had met in 1986 and although there was an instant and intense connection, we weren’t able to be together until 2013. We married in 2015. He […]
On Writing The Ripple Eclipse: Turning the Tide of Inherited Trauma
By Audrey Hyams Romoff Living a turbulent life and writing about it are two very different things. It means revealing family secrets and piercing the veil of a seemingly idyllic life. Yet, that’s what I decided to do, I ignored the warnings from seasoned writers about the psychological fallout of diving into the trauma, and […]
Two Minds, One Story: The Realities of Co-Authoring a Series
By Betsey Kulakowski Collaboration is one of the most rewarding and challenging experience a writer can have. Co-writing a book series with an other author can elevate your storytelling to a new level, but it requires trust, communication, and a shared vision. I’ve learned a lot about myself as a writer while collaborating with the […]
Why I Write Spice
by Jennie L. Spohr The first romance novel I ever read was Secrets, Sweet Valley High Book 2, by Francine Pascal. Forced to read them out of order, as they were continuously checked out of our school library, we flock of prepubescent girls (and some boys) flew to the shelves as soon as the lunch […]
Ending one Successful Series to Create Another
By Jeannée Sacken In my first series, photojournalist Annie Hawkins was frequently on assignment in Afghanistan and finding ways to keep the passion burning with her lover Finn Cerelli. After finishing three books, the characters were living in my head. They’d talk endlessly to me, with Cerelli often choosing to sit on the bench in […]
Breathing New Life into My Book Publishing Journey
By Karin K. Jensen A Timely Chance to Humanize the Immigrant Experience Throughout my childhood, my mother told stories of growing up in her father’s Detroit laundry business during the infancy of the auto industry, and later in a Cantonese village on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War. She also spoke of what it was […]
The Hardest Part about Writing
By Rebecca Lee Smith For me, the hardest part about writing is plotting. Some writers possess that effortless gift for weaving story lines, themes, and character studies together in just the right way, until a plot emerges fully developed. Like magic. Some writers can do this without breaking a sweat. I am not that writer. […]
WHERE THE MUSE WAITS
Santa Cruz, California. 3:00 am. My phone rang. “Storm’s coming in fast,” a friend said. “Can you help?” I pulled on jeans, layers of shirts, and work boots. Grabbed a rain jacket on my way out the door. I’d never harvested grapes, but I was prepared for physical work. Little did I suspect the Muse […]
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