Women and Adversity
Find your writing niche: Kill or cure with details
September 23, 2014Some stories just won’t start. They kill reader’s interest in the first sentence with too many details. Setting goes into character description before dialogue begins. It may be: The golde ...
Teen wins NFPW writing award
September 18, 2014Anna Schecterson, a junior at East Mecklenburg High School in Charlotte, N.C., accepted her writing award at the National Federation of Press Women luncheon Sept. 6 in Greenville, S.C. Anna’s ...
Californian wins writing contest
September 11, 2014Congratulations go to Miguella Twosias from Stockton, CA, who won the writing contest I offered. The question was to write a comment in the fewest number of words about Katharine Ashe’s answers to ...
Women and Adversity, Jess Thomas in One Plus One: A Novel by Jojo Moyes
September 4, 2014Jess Thomas in Jojo Moyes’ recent novel, One Plus One, is a perfect example of a woman who has obstacles in her path. Her husband decided to leave for a while to determine his life’ ...
Blog Contest: Women and Adversity, Katharine Ashe
August 28, 2014This week Katharine Ashe, award-winning writer of historical romances, answered my questions about obstacles she had to overcome to be a writer. She volunteered to send a signed copy of “I Mar ...
Enter This Contest to Win I MARRIED THE DUKE
August 21, 2014Sign up at jamathews.com/blog to receive my blog posts in your email and earn a chance to win a book signed by the author. The person who can make a dynamic, meaningful comment about the post ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Fear of Writing
August 12, 2014Dictionary.com defines fear as “a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined.” Many writers have the fear, the “distressin ...
A Blog for Writers: Women and Adversity, Anna Maria O’Shea in “A Bowl of Rice” by Joan Leotta
August 7, 2014Women protagonists in novels face adversity the same as women in real life do, and I plan to feature several of them in this blog. Women readers can consider solutions to their own dilemmas from t ...
A Blog for Writers: Women and Adversity, Reese Ryan
June 19, 2014"Making the First Move" and "Love me Not," published by Carina Press, are the first two novels in Reese Ryan’s The Bad Boys Gone Good series. Not only does the name of the series entice reade ...
A Blog for Writers: Women and Adversity, My Story
June 12, 2014What obstacle did I have to overcome when I decided to be a writer? 1) Thinking my first novel would be accepted by an agent or publisher 2) Believing that only the major ...