Dial Me A Story
In West Concord, behind the railroad tracks and to the side of the bike path, stands a bright yellow phone booth—yes, the kind we were so used to seeing everywhere, and once upon a time used, at least those of…
Category: Women Writers
Interview with Martha Jean Johnson on her novel, The Queen’s Musician
“Divorced, Beheaded, Died; Divorced, Beheaded, Survived”, is the mnemonic used to remember the fates of Henry VIII’s famous six wives. But how can we recall the lives of those forgotten by history, yet no less pulled into the orbit of…
Meet Shi Naseer, Author of The Cry of the Silkworm
Shi Naseer’s debut novel, The Cry of the Silkworm, is a spellbinding coming-of-age and revenge story about a young woman grappling with the trauma and loss she endured growing up under China’s one-child policy, in a small rural village where…
An Interview with Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne, Author of Holding On To Nothing
The truth: Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne’s debut novel, Holding On To Nothing, made me cry. Not many novels have this effect on me and so it is no exaggeration when I say that her beautiful, tragic characters sucked me in and…
Meet Shalene Gupta, Author of The Cycle, a Groundbreaking Exploration of a Debilitating Underdiagnosed Disorder
Most days, Shalene Gupta, author of The Cycle, was the person she’d always aspired to be. She was hardworking, excelled at work, and had a long-term boyfriend who she desperately loved. Then, every month like clockwork, it all came crashing…
Meet Neely Tubati Alexander, Author of In a Not So Perfect World
Neely Tubati Alexander’s latest book, In a Not So Perfect World, is a romantic romp about a video game designer and her hot actor/model neighbor, someone she hardly knows, thrown together in the honeymoon suite of a Caribbean hotel. Neely…