This is NOT "Feminine Tosh": Writing Meaningful Fiction

Three SheWrites novelists--Meg Waite Clayton, Carleen Brice, and Ellen Sussman--discuss writing and publishing fiction of substance

Meg Waite Clayton is the bestselling author of The Four Mrs Bradwells, The Wednesday Sisters, and The Language of Light, a finalist for the Bellwether Prize. Her shorter work has appeared in national magazines and on public radio.

Carleen Brice authored the novels Orange Mint and Honey, a Target "Bookmarked Breakout Book," and Children of the Waters. Orange Mint and Honey became the Lifetime Movie Network film Sins of the Mother, the second-highest rated original movie ever on LMN. It received two 2011 NAACP Image Awards. Brice won the 2009 First Novelist Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association along with other awards.

Ellen Sussman is the author of the novels French Lessons and On a Night Like This, a San Francisco Chronicle Best-Seller. She has edited two anthologies, Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia Of Sex and Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave, a New York Times Editors Choice and a San Francisco Chronicle Best-Seller