Tag: women writers
Beta Readers Are Critical To An Author’s Success
Rachel Callaghan is the author of Under Water, Devils Knob (with its sequel) and the dark comedy Grab the Groom. She hosts the Dark and Outrageous Humor Author Interviews series, People often ask about the need for beta readers and how to get them. Yes, most writers need them. Yes, your friends and family can be beta readers […]
Keeping Promises to Ourselves and Getting to the Finish Line—- and Beyond
By Lynne Shaner I started writing what would become my debut novel more than ten years ago. The first draft was messy and awful and all over the place, in the way firsts drafts are (mine, anyway). I printed it out it and boxed it up and lugged it halfway across the country. I tucked […]
On The Inspiration for Violet is Blue by Anne Shaw Heinrich
It wasn’t until I was an adult that I understood the gravity of a bounced check. Once I figured out that a checkbook was only as good as my rapidly fluctuating account balance at the bank, the act of writing a check to pay for anything felt like risky business. A bounced check can represent […]
Three Goals of a Great Story
By Jane Kirkpatrick Some years ago, at a conference called the Festival of Faith and Writing, I heard Joyce Carol Oates speak about what makes a great story. This multi-published and award-winning author of a National Book Award Book, the Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and so many more accolades, named three things. A great […]
Empowering Stories: The Strength of Writing Communities
Empowering Stories: The Strength of Writing Communities Creating a writing community was not one of those things I imagined in my future when I was young. And yet, it is something for which I’m deeply grateful, especially in this time of midlife. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve spent my lifetime journaling, reading, even writing a few […]
Structuring A Memoir To Keep The Audience And Yourself Intrigued
By Candice Black I made numerous attempts at writing a memoir before completing my first and I always seemed to get stuck within the first two chapters. The majority of ‘Emerging: An Artistic Practice Saved My Life’ was written over the course of a month, my suddenly ability to write the book I’d wanted to […]
Elevator Pitches, Blogs, Blurbs and Reviews: SPOILERS from Authors’ and Readers’ Perspectives
By Catherine Kullman “Write about the inspiration for your latest book,” Barbara Bos suggested. “What is your [new] book about?” A seemingly innocent question that can put the heart across the most experienced author, and one that requires different answers depending on who is asking. If it is your editor or agent, they want a […]
My Writing Journey by Beth Brookhart
Beth Brookhart Author of The Four Queens of the Buttonbush Museum When I sat down to write The Four Queens of the Buttonbush Museum, I knew I wasn’t exactly hitting the usual marks of “women’s fiction.” No cozy mysteries with quaint teacups and clever cats. No sweeping romances with ripped bodices and heaving bosoms. Just […]
Too Good to Get Married: The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen
By Bonnie Yochelson In 1987, I accepted a job as Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Museum of the City of New York. I had worked in print rooms for several years and earned a PhD in modern art history. Now I had full responsibility for a remarkable collection that needed a lot of […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Lisa F. Rosenberg
Fine, I’m a Terrible Person Fine, I’m a Terrible Person is a funny, heart wrenching adult mother daughter story. It begins when 73-year-old, worn out, former beauty, Aurora Hmans Feldenburg, a hapless, perpetually broke, eccentric, divorcee living in the wealthy enclave of Marin County in Northern California, is wakened by a phone call informing her […]
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