I was trying to write broadly enough that anyone who had childhood or church trauma or abuse could relate and be inspired by it.
Penny Lane – 26 June 2024 Continue reading
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I got the idea during a Florida trip where I was terrified at the thought of being left away from civilization with strangers whose sanity was undetermined.
Angela Grey – 24 June 2024 Continue reading
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No matter what age, what generation we belong to, we all have inspiration to share and it behooves us, one and all, to pay attention and learn from each other.
Cheryl Babirad – 22 June 2024 Continue reading
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I was developmental editing a self-help book about the mental health crisis in Black America. I was also helping with a book proposal for a memoir by a titan of the gay liberation and gay publishing movements, and I was dealing with the overwhelming presence of dementia among the elders in my family. So I can look back and see that all of these influences were the soup in the pot at the time.
20 June 2024 – Gina L. Carroll Continue reading
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For many years I worked all day long, seven days a week, forgetting to take breaks until my husband would ask if we might share a meal; until my bladder was about to burst; until my dogs reminded me they were hungry or needed a walk; until I noticed it was dark and time to sleep.
Lynne Spriggs O’Connor – 18 June 2024 Continue reading
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You can go there. The further you push the story, the more true it becomes.
Elizabeth Stix – 14 June 2024 Continue reading
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I wanted to create a protagonist who had a childhood history of trauma, but who had never been given or sought out the proper tools and relationships to heal herself. She was intellectually bright and driven, but was emotionally underdeveloped because of the trauma.
Susan Weisbbach Friedman – 11 June 2024 Continue reading
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It is character-driven, and I love to watch people. I wrote the bulk of the first draft on a stack of yellow legal pads in a little café down the street from my youngest daughter’s preschool.
Anne Shaw Heinrich – 9 June 2024 Continue reading
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I struggled the most with how much context I needed to provide readers who may enter my trilogy with the second book. You want to give enough context to make them feel oriented but not so much that readers who have read The Savage Kind get bored. It’s tricky!
John Copen Haver – 7 June 2024 Continue reading
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It’s essentially a love letter to female entrepreneurs who are working their tails off, dealing with the gross inequities of VC funding, and creating profitable, disruptive, meaningful, and important companies and products – especially in the world of women’s health, a category long neglected by male founders.
Susie Orman Schnall – 4 June 2024 Continue reading
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