Tag: women writers
Not The Perfect Victim: Excerpt
NOT THE PERFECT VICTIM: A Memoir of Surviving Violence, a Late Autism Diagnosis, and the Fight for Justice by Anna Kahill From Silence to Strength A story of trauma, rage, and reclaiming the right to be heard. Not the Perfect Victim: A Memoir of Trauma, Truth, and Reclamation What happens when you’ve survived the unthinkable—but […]
Debuting at 40: The Case for the Late-Blooming Author
By Amy Rossi Here’s a confession. Somewhere in the quiet period after selling my book – edits turned in, waiting on the next round – I got too curious. I googled the title and found it mentioned in an article about debut book deals. What was interesting to me was how debut was used interchangeably […]
Mrs. Endicott’s Splendid Adventure by Rhys Bowen: EXCERPT
Blindsided by betrayal in pre-WWII England, a woman charts a daring new course in this captivating tale of resilience, friendship, and new love by the bestselling author of The Rose Arbor and The Venice Sketchbook. Surrey, England, 1938. After thirty devoted years of marriage, Ellie Endicott is blindsided by her husband’s appeal for divorce. It’s Ellie’s opportunity for […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Jennifer Jabaley
WHAT’S YOURS IS MINE Determined daughters. Controlling mothers. There’s no such thing as friendly competition in a twisty novel of suspense about ambition, revenge, and unrealized dreams. Valerie Yarnell is a hardworking single mother who’d do anything for her daughter, Kate. Kate is a dancer with dreams of stardom, just like her talented best friend, […]
The Ballad of Speedball Baby: A Memoir by Ali Smith, EXCERPT
The Ballad of Speedball Baby is the thrilling, extremely funny, and heart-wrenchingly vulnerable story of Ali Smith—coming of age in ’90s New York—who commits to the messy, exhilarating life of a musician and must survive the slings and arrows society reserves for women who refuse to comply. As an only child reeling from the demolition of […]
Pivoting to Writing at 70
By Patricia Grayhall After a nearly forty-year career as a medical specialist, I retired with my partner to a beautiful log home on a mountaintop overlooking the Strait of Juan de Fuca that divides Washington and British Columbia. Then, at nearly 70 years old, when we were downsizing, I came across a stack of old […]
July: Reading With Rochelle Weinstein
Hello Readers & Friends, Another month flies by, and just when I think I have my TBR under control, BAM. Another Tuesday and another set of titles to replenish the pile. I read some fabulous books in July, and there was the obvious bingeworthy Netflix series which everyone is talking about: The Hunting Wives. As […]
Harvesting a Memoir
Muriel A. Murch The house is still. The family have flown to Los Angeles or Buenos Aires. My husband is in New York while I am here on the farm. We take turns reaching out to one another, I travel east more often than he comes west. We are as free to roam or stay […]
August Recommended Reads
Infidelity Rules: A Menu For Disaster, The Perils of Loving Food, Wine, and Married Men, Joelle Babula “Infidelity Rules is a delicious escape. The complexities of love and wine pair for an emotional journey alongside characters navigating broken hearts and moral dilemmas.” -Audrey Ingram, author of The River Runs South QUINN DAVIS shatters the norm. She’s […]
A Square Peg in a Round Hole: Writing a Memoir About Schizoid Personality Disorder, I Found My Family
By Blair Sorrel, author of A Schizoid at Smith: How Overparenting Leads to Underachieving This oddball book had a humble origin. Not the legendary cocktail napkin provenance of a famous song (Garth Brooks’ “I Got Friends in Low Places”) or a lowly toilet paper debut (Richard Berry’s “Louie, Louie”). My genre-less opus came into the world […]
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