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
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
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
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
There was no need to find a premise. I found myself living in a story I knew needed to be told.
Diane N. Black – 1 June 2024 Continue reading
I had gone through intensive treatment for an aggressive bout of breast cancer in 2008. The experience gave me insight into how people respond to cancer, and how it feels on the other end.
Ann Bancroft – 28 May 2024 Continue reading
I remember how uncomfortable it felt to be walking down Market Street along with so many others looking at our phones, on our way to jobs that purported to be “doing good” in the world, and yet we hardly saw the many homeless, suffering individuals sitting on the sidewalks around us.
Noa Silver – 24 May 2024 Continue reading
I would like to engage any reader who is curious about a good mystery story and an interesting resolution to that mystery.
Ellenmorris Tiegerman – 21 May 2024 Continue reading
Here’s the thing: like all fiction, the literary perceptions and insights are based on experience. All names, characters, places, incidents are either products of my imagination, or are used fictitiously.
Maggie Hill – 20 May 2024 Continue reading
Time for a writer is hard to specify because 99% of the process happens in the real world, not when sitting in front of the page. Observing people, places, and things are as much of the process as forming sentences and phrases that describe our interpretation of these perceptions.
Emily Jon Tobias – 17 May 2024 Continue reading