Catharine Riggs, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/author/catharineriggs/ Sat, 22 Feb 2020 17:15:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 AUTHORS INTERVIEWING THEIR CHARACTERS: Catharine Riggs https://booksbywomen.org/a-difficult-woman-interviews-her-difficult-women-catharine-riggs/ https://booksbywomen.org/a-difficult-woman-interviews-her-difficult-women-catharine-riggs/#comments Wed, 19 Feb 2020 10:24:19 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=29521 A Difficult Woman Interviews Her Difficult Women Catharine Riggs Crystal Love is a former loan analyst at a fictional community bank based in Santa Barbara, California. Single with no children, she recently switched careers and works as an adventure guide in Taormina, Italy, where she resides with her mother, romance author Kathi Wright. Crystal is […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/making-peace-with-your-one-star-catharine-riggs/feed/ 1 27977 Running to the Muse https://booksbywomen.org/running-to-the-muse-by-catharine-riggs/ https://booksbywomen.org/running-to-the-muse-by-catharine-riggs/#respond Mon, 15 Apr 2019 08:54:13 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=25996 I once attended a ThrillerFest conference featuring author John Sandford, who offered some basic advice: “Write. Just write.” I’m paraphrasing here but essentially he said, “When you treat writing as a job, there’s no time for writer’s block.” The prolific novelist is 74, has won a Pulitzer Prize in journalism, and produces an average of […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/running-to-the-muse-by-catharine-riggs/feed/ 0 25996 Body Image as Theme https://booksbywomen.org/body-image-as-theme-by-catharine-riggs/ https://booksbywomen.org/body-image-as-theme-by-catharine-riggs/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2018 04:54:39 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=24515 My great-aunt Helena was fat. Or so my mother said. She also graduated from medical school in 1925, was the first woman to earn tenure in the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Medicine, and was the first to hold a senior professorship in neuropathology. She wrote books and articles on her specialty, mentored her […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/body-image-as-theme-by-catharine-riggs/feed/ 3 24515 The Long and Winding Road to My Agent https://booksbywomen.org/the-long-and-winding-road-to-my-agent-by-catharine-riggs/ https://booksbywomen.org/the-long-and-winding-road-to-my-agent-by-catharine-riggs/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2018 09:41:44 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=22348 There I stood, hands trembling, moments away from playing a starring role in my very own thriller. One where an irate passenger strangles an unsuspecting gate attendant in front of hundreds of horrified witnesses. I had flown from LAX to Atlanta and was attempting to board my connecting flight to Tennessee. At the gate a […]

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