Read the stories of female authors and get revved up to write your own book.

These authors cover a wide range of genres — from romance to self-help to literary to children’s and everything in-between. Some started writing in their teens. Others were into their fifties and sixties before their story shook them into submission. Some write full-time while others squeeze their creative writing into the cracks of time in otherwise busy lives.

They are different in so many ways, but they all share one thing in common: a determination to tell their stories and never, ever have the regret of thinking, “I wish I’d written that book I’d spent so many years imagining.”

These stories are meant to help you rev up your writing and inspire you to picture yourself, and your own writer’s journey, on this page with them.