By Karna Small Bodman Throughout history, there have been many brilliant women who made incredible contributions, and yet a number have only been recognized and celebrated when authors (and film producers) write bestselling books and make movies highlighting their achievements. I have been reading...
I'm Still Smiling By Tracy Clark When I was a kid, I often thought how cool it would be if Topps made author trading cards like they made all those ho-hum baseball ones. I would have loved to have opened a pack of Topps to find a small sheet of chewing gum and a cardboard card with Agatha...
By Z.J. Czupor On Tour with Dead Writers is Z.J. Czupor's new installment on Rogue Women Writers. Guess the correct dead writer and be entered to win a free book. The Ohio Penitentiary opened in 1834 and was demolished in 1998 on a site that is now known as The Arena District in Columbus, Ohio....
By Lisa Black I forgot my phone the other night. Perhaps that should be written as: The other night, I left the house and forgot my phone!!!...
The Day My Dad Changed My Life By Tosca Lee Signing the contract for my upcoming novel, The Long March Home. Authors often get asked what they hope readers will take away from their books, what their publishing journey was like and what’s next for them. But my favorite question is this: “How did...
By Don Bentley Can you believe this? Some version of this innocuous sounding statement flooded my texts, email inboxes, and voicemail during the summer of 2021. The senders were, for the most part, Afghanistan veterans like me and were trying to make sense of the slow motion tragedy unfolding...
Kim Howe: West Palm Beach. Murder. Glitz and glamour. Welcome to Diane Bergner’s Royal Coconut Beach Lunch Club, an insider’s view to the world of philanthropy and high net worth lifestyles. Slip on your Louboutins and enjoy! Diane Bergner: I’ve been fortunate to have a magnificent career as a...
By Amy Impellizzeri Writing legal thrillers would kill my career. I swallowed this fear for years, keeping it deep inside. After I left the law, I wrote contemporary fiction — women’s fiction with elements of suspense. A political thriller. Book Club fiction. My books had disgruntled lawyers...
By Karna Small Bodman Have you ever read a book where a dog is one of the characters? It turns out that our Rogue author, Alex Kava, has written an entire bestselling series featuring a dog, “Grace,” who works with her K9 handling, Ryder Creed and FBI agent Maggie O’Dell to rescue people. In her...
By Tracy Clark It’s conference season, that busy time of year for writers when they come together with readers and their writing community and celebrate books and writing. It’s like Oscar season, only without Wolfgang Puck’s mini-sliders and that pre-ceremony full-body shellacking Hollywood...
