Into the Light For a long time plus size women had to rely on erotica laced with slim chicks. Then in walked Hanne Blank, curvy, intelligent, and full of erotic stories to share about women like the rest of us. Hanne Blank likes to push the limits in her writing both in fiction and non-fiction….
Lisa See obviously loves her craft, a truth that can be seen on the pages of two of her most popular novels, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love. Over the last thirty years she has developed a successful niche for her writing. She works as a full time writer and has written
The Sami Rohr Prize for emerging Jewish writers was recently awarded for Tamar Yellin’s novel The Genizah at the House of Shepher (also awarded the Ribalow Prize). Her collection of stories, Kafka in Bronteland, received the Reform Judaism…
Austin, Texas is the home of this full time writer who has been writing for “as long as I can remember”. Her husband, two “terrific” children and a Korean exchange student are a delightful distraction from her writing.
What could be more beautiful than a family? Why, the debacles of two of course! Awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction, On Beauty follows the Belsey and the Kipps families through 443 pages of shenanigans only family can forgive. This review appeared 7/17/2006 on Literary Fiction, BellaOnline. The full review of Zadie Smith’s On Beauty…
In 1999 freelance writer Lisa Selin Davis started writing “seriously”. The result? A continuous flow of article and prose publications. It seems only natural that the next step for this Brooklyn, New York writer would be commercial publication with Little, Brown
Yes! Finally! Zadie Smith, author of On Beauty, has won the 2006 Orange Prize. The Orange Prize is one of my favourite literary awards. It comes out of the UK and is for women only. Yes, I love women only stuff, as far as I’m concerned there are not
Nestled in the Southern Gulf Islands of British Columbia on Salt Spring Island you’ll find Pearl Luke and her partner of ten years Robert Hilles (author, poet) and their children. Pearl has been writing for twenty years and works full time as a novelist with the occasional online mentoring.