Profiles

Andi Buchanan: Memoir writing involves sometimes brutal honesty and a level of intimacy with readers can be intense. Writing about mothering can be a loaded act, especially given how harshly…

Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser: How has life changed for you since the publication of The Bitch in the House? Cathi Hanauer: For one thing, the entire premise that prompted me to…

Wendy Orange: Both of your novels are set in the Middle East. It’s amazing to me that you wrote

Joanne Catz Hartman: What was the inspiration behind the book — how did it come to be? Susan Isaacs Kohl: My work with mothers as a parent consultant was the…

Linda Rigel: Tell us about your book tour for The Real Minerva. Mary Sharratt: It was fantastic. I was gone for nearly three weeks and toured the Twin Cities, San…

Deesha Philyaw: Tell me about the process of bringing the writers and their contributions together for Rise Up Singing. What were your selection criteria? Cecelie S. Berry: I wanted to…

Elizabeth LaBan: When you wrote Good In Bed, you had a full-time job as a reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer. You subsequently left that job to concentrate on writing fiction.…

Joanne Catz Hartman: What was your goal in writing the book — did you write for your son, for readers to understand the complexities of mothering? Did it start as…

Sarah Buttenwieser: How did the book come into being? Meredith Michaels: Susan had finished Where The Girls Are. She had a young daughter and we adopted two kids, so we…

Andi Buchanan: Between the publication of your first book, See Jane Date, and your second, The Solomon Sisters Wise Up, you became pregnant and had a baby. Do you feel…

Heidi Raykeill: I loved your new book, Mommy’s Little Girl: On Sex, Motherhood, Porn, and Cherry Pie. It’s about time someone strung those words together! And just in time for…