Tag: women writers
The Romance of Ruins by Louisa Morgan
I happened to be touring the beautiful Middle Rhine area of Germany at the same moment that my newest Arthurian novel (The Faerie Handmaid) was being released in the United States. Many travelers, myself included, visit that romantic region because of the numerous castles, particularly on the Middle Rhine. They are best seen from the […]
Five Seasonal Thrillers to Set the Fall Mood By Tessa Wegert
I’m a mood reader down to my bones, and very often, my mood is dictated by the season. A chilling locked-room mystery January, a sizzling summer camp thriller in July…if the story or setting corresponds with the weather, I’m in. My latest thriller, The River Runs Black, is set around Halloween, and I’ve loaded it […]
The Journey That Inspired Camel from Kyzylkum by Lara Gelya
I was born and raised in Ukraine during the Soviet era, in a world shaped by discipline, endurance, and quiet resilience. My childhood was a complex mosaic. Life was certainly not easy, and the shadow of antisemitism was a heavy, painful reality we had to navigate. Yet, in our neighborhood, Jewish and Ukrainian families lived […]
About a Boy By Tara Badstubner
Ask me how I came to write of loss and grief. Ask me at night when I’m especially tired, when my guard is down, when my heart is heavy from the slow grind of the day. I will tell you a story, maybe, about a boy, a friend, who was goofy and kind. His gait […]
The Process of Writing A Dream Life by Wendy Swift
Over twenty years ago, I had a conversation with a friend who wrote children’s books reviews for Publisher’s Weekly. I told her I would like to write a memoir. She quickly said, no one is interested in reading a memoir unless it is about a celebrity. That may have been true then, or maybe that […]
October Recommended Reads
Engineering a Love Story, Kathleen Reidy At the height of the boom, ambition is easy —love is the real gamble It’s the year 2000—dot-coms, Bush v. Gore, and sky-high San Francisco rents. But while the country swoons with irrational exuberance, Chelsea Lefevre’s life is deflating faster than a tech bubble. She’d had everything she thought she […]
Write What You Know … or Don’t by Liz Flaherty
As writers, we hear it from everyone—from other writers, from people who teach writing, from readers, and from people who are tired of hearing us groan and whine about writing. (Little do they know how much fun groaning and whining is if you’re sharing it with sympathetic listeners.) Write what you know, they say. It’s […]
Writing the Story I Once Tried to Survive By Nikki Laycy
By Nikki Laycy, author of Out of the Shadows – From Despair to Self-Acceptance and Love There is something very different about living through painful experiences and sitting down years later to write about them. When I was living through some of the darkest periods of my life, I wasn’t thinking about what they meant […]
Safe by Claudia Hinz
I began writing SAFEKEEPING before the pandemic. The first draft of the novel had a different title. There were different characters. A different plot. The novel worked on many levels. It was polished enough to go out on submission to publishers, and the response was largely enthusiastic. But I knew something was missing. Someone was […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Chital Mehta
Have You Seen Romit? When twenty-five-year-old Romit, Usha’s adopted son, doesn’t respond to her calls, she has a sinking feeling in her stomach. Her husband, Om, who has never accepted their adopted son, tries to convince her to move on. With time, though, it’s clear Usha is right: Romit has gone missing. When the police […]
Recent Comments