Since I like surprises, only the authors who’ve already been featured are listed here! But rest assured, Women’s Fiction Writers is already booked through summer 2013, with your favorite (and new-to-you) women’s fiction authors!
2013
♦ Gabrielle Sbarcea ♦ Karen Guzman ♦ Catherine McNamara* ♦ Dana Bate ♦ Kate Moretti ♦ Julie Kibler ♦ Amy Franklin-Willis ♦ Samantha Wilde ♦ Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke ♦ Lisa Wingate ♦ Kim Boykin ♦ Anita Hughes* ♦ Ellen Sussman* ♦ Nicole Baart ♦ Patti Callahan Henry ♦ Jennie Shortridge ♦ Lizette Brodey ♦ Tiffany Hawk ♦ Andrea Lochen ♦ Natalia Sylvester ♦ Wendy Francis ♦ Erika Robuck*♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
2012
♦ Sarah Jio ♦ Catherine McNamara ♦ SJ Drum ♦ Erika Liodice ♦ Shelly Bell ♦ Sarah Pinneo ♦ Sarah McCoy* ♦ Erika Marks ♦ Eleni N. Gage ♦ Patti Yager Delagrange ♦ Kristina McMorris ♦ Ann Weisgarber ♦ Meg Donohue ♦ Maureen Lipinski ♦ Jael McHenry* ♦ Anne Clinard Barnhill ♦ Valerie Frankel ♦ Kimberly Menozzi ♦ Amy Stolls* ♦ Priscille Sibley ♦ Lynda Rutledge ♦ Kimberly Brock ♦ Laura Drake ♦ Melanie Thorne ♦ Sandra Kring ♦ Tamra Wilson ♦ Laura Harrington* ♦ Jenny Gardiner ♦ Kim Izzo ♦ Karen Berner ♦ Nichole Bernier ♦ Brenda Janowitz ♦ Mia March ♦ Sarah Healy ♦ Anita Hughes ♦ Kathy Lynn Harris ♦ Katharine Britton ♦ Erica Bauermeister ♦ Cynthia Racette ♦ Jytosna Sreenivasan ♦ Grace Wen ♦ Samantha Hoffman ♦ Deeba Salim Irfan ♦ Susan Wiggs ♦ Barbara Claypole White ♦ Ilie Ruby ♦ Erika Robuck ♦ Margaret Dilloway ♦ Ariel Lawhon ♦ Keith Cronin* ♦ Kellie Coates Gilbert ♦ Karen Stivali ♦ Maggie Dana ♦ Shelle Sumners ♦ Kelly O’Connor McNees ♦ Juliette Fay ♦ Terri Bruce ♦ Sharla Lovelace ♦ Katherine Scott Crawford ♦ Roberta Gately ♦ Seré Prince Halverson ♦ Janet Josselyn ♦ Holly Robinson* ♦ Rita Plush ♦ Nancy DiMauro ♦ Ellen Marie Wiseman ♦ Nancy LaPonzina ♦
* authors who’ve visited before and are kind enough to come back!
2011
♦ Jael McHenry ♦ Keith Cronin ♦ Meg Waite Clayton ♦ Jennifer Weiner ♦ Tina Ann Forkner ♦ Erin Blakemore ♦ Cathy Lamb ♦ Kathryn Magendie ♦ Liz Michalski ♦ Terri DuLong ♦ Kristina Riggle ♦ Denise Dietz ♦ Gordon Aalborg ♦ Eleanor Brown ♦ Lauren Baratz-Logsted ♦ Claire Cook ♦ Wendy Wax ♦ Camille Noe Pagán ♦ Ellen Sussman ♦ Melissa Senate ♦ Erika Robuck ♦ Cavanaugh Lee ♦ Amy Hatvany ♦ Melissa Ford ♦ Sarah McCoy ♦ Allison Winn Scotch ♦ Stacey Ballis ♦ Kelly Simmons ♦ Laura Harrington ♦ Amy Stolls ♦ Ruth Harris ♦ Barbara O’Neal ♦ Sally Koslow ♦ Wendy Delsol ♦ Randy Susan Meyers ♦ Lisa Patton ♦ Nancy Jensen ♦ Marilyn Brant ♦ Jessica McCann ♦ Therese Walsh ♦ Tamar Cohen ♦ Holly Robinson Cookson ♦
Hi Amy, just stumbled on your site today while googling “writing women’s fiction.” Seems to be really filling an empty niche. I’d like to read some of these previous interviews, but can’t seem to click on them. what am I doing wriong?
Lokking forward to more. Judy
Judy – if you look under categories – you can click on guest posts and interviews. They’re not linked.
Hope that helps! Enjoy!!
I write historical fiction (about women) and have a blog about “real” women who went to sea on board whaling vessels with their captain husbands. My first manuscript (about a whaling wife) is currently with an agent – so I’m waiting to hear if she loves it enough to publish. I will be back here regularly to see what’s new.
Hi. I’m a woman who writes fiction – and this blog is great. It’s really interesting hearing from other authors – it’s often a lonely job otherwise! Thanks for the great posts. And good luck with it all.
Hi Amy, I love your blog and would love to be interviewed about my novel, “Husbands May Come and go but Friends are Forever,” which has been optioned for the big screen. You can reach me at http://www.judithmarshall.net
Thanks for supporting women writers.
Hi Judith,
Big congrats! Send information about you and your book to womensfictionwriters@gmail.com. WFW is booked through July, but I’d be happy to consider an interview for August or beyond! So glad you like the blog. Notes like that always make my day!
Amy
Jennie Shortridge has hit the proverbial nail on the head (even though the use of a hammer is stereotypically male) when she says that women–especially in the business world–are sent the message “that empathy and compassion are not as important as power and might.” Yet when women try to exercise power and gather might, the message becomes “don’t be a b****.” (Try Sheryl Sandberg for something that should be fiction, but isn’t.) Combine that with the counter-message that women also have to be beautiful, sexy, and forever young and it’s no wonder that women seek relief in fiction.
As women fiction writers, we all need to be aware of what Jennie points out: the impact of our writing on individual readers and the potential to change the world. Great column.