In this interview with Liz McConaghy, we talk about her experiences serving as aircrew on RAF Chinooks in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the mental challenges she faced after being medically grounded and leaving the service, which she writes about in her memoir Chinook Crew 'Chick': Highs and Lows of Forces Life from the Longest Serving Female Chinook Force Crewmember Thanks so much for listening! Stay up to date on book releases, author events, and Aviatrix Book Club discussion dates with...

In this interview with USAF Academy graduate, F-16 combat veteran pilot, former no. 3 Thunderbird demonstration team pilot, and boy-mom, Caroline ‘Blaze’ Jensen, we talk about her sweet new picture book, Thundermouse, her career, and how she managed one of the most visible and demanding jobs imaginable as the mother of a toddler. Blaze is the granddaughter of a WWII SPAR (as am I) and a Coast Guard Grandfather, and daughter of a U.S. Marine, but we’ll forgive her for joining the Air Force....

In this interview with author Mary Carroll Moore, we talk about her new book, A Woman’s Guide to Search and Rescue, which is available for preorder and launches on October 24th, 2023. In a former life, Mary was a syndicated food journalist who wrote many food and cooking-related articles and books. At fifty, she went back to school for her MFA and began not only writing, but also teaching fiction.     Mary’s curiosity about aviation was piqued by her mother, Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Hartz Carroll,...

In the Aviatrix Book Club discussion book for September 2023, author Nell McShane Wulfhart gives us the previously unsung heroines of both the aviation industry and the women's rights movement: the airline stewardesses whose fight against blatant, unapologetic, institutionalized sexism laid the groundwork for equal rights beyond the airlines. This lynchpin story in our history illuminates the context into which the first generation of female airline pilots entered the workforce and explains...

In this Writers' Room interview with Nell McShane Wulfhart, author of The Great Stewardess Rebellion, we talk about her journey as a travel writer and the transition from writing short form journalistic pieces to a full length narrative non-fiction history. She also shares the details of submitting a proposal, working through an agent, and the experience of working with a Big Five publisher. Thanks so much for listening! Stay up to date on book releases, author events, and Aviatrix Book...

In this portion of my interview with Erin Mariah Murphy about her picture book Halfway Home, she talks about her early career, learning to fly as a teenager and saving her money to pursue an aviation degree in college, where she also competed in the Air Race Classic.  Thanks so much for listening! Stay up to date on book releases, author events, and Aviatrix Book Club discussion dates with the Literary Aviatrix Newsletter. Visit the Literary Aviatrix website to find over 600 books...

In this excerpt from my  Writers Room interview with thriller novelist Sandy Parks about her book Under the Radar. In it she shares how and when she found the time to write the several novels she's published over the years, and talk about her strategy for getting in front of agents in an organic way as a volunteer at writers' conferences.  Thanks so much for listening! Stay up to date on book releases, author events, and Aviatrix Book Club discussion dates with the Literary Aviatrix...

In this interview with author and publisher Connie Reeves, a former Army helicopter pilot, we talk about her fiction thriller novel, The Elimination Game, and the book Military Fly Moms, an anthology of women’s stories compiled by Linda Maloney, published by Connie, and featuring yours truly along with many inspiring women military aviators. The Elimination Game, the August Aviatrix Book Club discussion book, imagines a small group of Army men who sabotage all-female crews to push women out...

In this portion of my interview with retired USAF Colonel Merryl Tengesdal about her book Shatter the Sky, she talks about the physical challenges and long term physiological effects flying the U-2 had on her and her fellow Dragon Lady pilots.  Thanks so much for listening! Stay up to date on book releases, author events, and Aviatrix Book Club discussion dates with the Literary Aviatrix Newsletter. Visit the Literary Aviatrix website to find over 600 books featuring women in aviation...

In this portion of my interview with Erin Seidemann about her memoir, Postcards from the Sky, she talks about flying as a general aviation pilot to the Bahamas.  Thanks so much for listening! Stay up to date on book releases, author events, and Aviatrix Book Club discussion dates with the Literary Aviatrix Newsletter. Visit the Literary Aviatrix website to find over 600 books featuring women in aviation in all genres for all ages. Become a Literary Aviatrix Patron and help amplify...

In this portion of my Writers' Room interview with author Kathy Mexted about her book Australian Women Pilots, she talks about learning to trust her voice, put herself into a story, and present a subject in longer form to write this collection of ten biographical sketches of pioneering women pilots throughout the last hundred years of Australian aviation history.  Thanks so much for listening! Stay up to date on book releases, author events, and Aviatrix Book Club discussion dates with...

In this portion of my interview with author Lauren Kessler, she does a reading from her book, The Happy Bottom Riding Club, that describes the 1929 Women’s Transcontinental Air Race.  Thanks so much for listening! Stay up to date on book releases, author events, and Aviatrix Book Club discussion dates with the Literary Aviatrix Newsletter. Visit the Literary Aviatrix website to find over 600 books featuring women in aviation in all genres for all ages. Become a Literary Aviatrix...

In this portion of my interview with author Amy Goodpaster Strebe, she does a reading from her book Flying for Her Country: The American and Soviet Women Military Pilots of WWII.  Thanks so much for listening! Stay up to date on book releases, author events, and Aviatrix Book Club discussion dates with the Literary Aviatrix Newsletter. Visit the Literary Aviatrix website to find over 600 books featuring women in aviation in all genres for all ages. Become a Literary Aviatrix Patron...

In this portion of my writers’ room interview with Amy Goodpaster Strebe, she talks about publishing her masters thesis, which was a comparative study of the Women Air Force Service Pilots and the Women who flew for Russia, including the Nacht Hexen or Night Witches, entitled Flying for Her Country.    Thanks so much for listening! Stay up to date on book releases, author events, and Aviatrix Book Club discussion dates with the Literary Aviatrix Newsletter. Visit the Literary Aviatrix...

In this portion of my interview with co-authors Raquel Ramsey and Tricia Aurand about the book Taking Flight: The Nadine Ramsey Story, Tricia shares the impact that working on this story and learning about the Women Airforce Service Pilots had on her and her understanding of the importance and continued relevance of WWII.  *Check out the new Literary Aviatrix Website for books, interviews, news, blogs, and the Writers' Room! Big thanks to Shaesta Waiz and Michael Wildes of the Women Soar...

In this portion of my interview with Kathy Mexted about her book Australian Women Pilots, she talks about two of the women she highlights in the book: WWII ATA pilot Marty Gething and Royal Flying Doctor Service pilot Esther Veldestra. *Check out the new Literary Aviatrix Website for books, interviews, news, blogs, and the Writers' Room! Big thanks to Shaesta Waiz and Michael Wildes of the Women Soar Group for their help in bringing my vision for this site to life! * Thanks so much for...

In this interview with former US Army and Coast Guard helicopter pilot, Darcy Guyant, we talk about the inspiration behind his new picture book, Into the Storm: The Coast Guard Adventures of Dolph and Gwen. Since retiring, Darcy has found his passion volunteering at a local elementary school where he works with first graders. Encouraged and mentored by the school’s teachers, Darcy wrote this book which is based on a real search and rescue case from his flying career.    Of course, I love that...

In this expert from my Writers’ Room interview with Merryl Tengesdal (which is actually S2E2), she shares her lessons learned from pressing to get her memoir published on a tight timeline driven by her appearance on the reality TV series, Tough as Nails, and she tells all of you out there who are on the fence about writing your memoirs to Just Do It!  *Check out the new Literary Aviatrix Website for books, interviews, news, blogs, and the Writers' Room! Big thanks to Shaesta Waiz and Michael...

In this excerpt from my interview with author Keith O'Brien about his book Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History, he talks about the most blatant and egregious illustration of the misogyny and sexism of the day in his book, which he reveals with Florence Klingensmith' story.  *Check out the new Literary Aviatrix Website for books, interviews, news, blogs, and the Writers' Room! Big thanks to Shaesta Waiz and Michael Wildes of the Women Soar Group for their...

In this excerpt from my interview with author Clare Mulley about her book The Women Who Flew for Hitler, she talks about her research experience in a glider and being two degrees of separation from Hitler through Hanna Reitsch.  *Check out the new Literary Aviatrix Website for books, interviews, news, blogs, and the Writers' Room! Big thanks to Shaesta Waiz and Michael Wildes of the Women Soar Group for their help in bringing my vision for this site to life! * Thanks so much for listening!...

In this portion of my Writers’ Room interview with thriller novelist, Sandy Parks, whose books have been both traditionally and self-published, talks about how she developed her craft.  *Check out the new Literary Aviatrix Website for books, interviews, news, blogs, and the Writers' Room! Big thanks to Shaesta Waiz and Michael Wildes of the Women Soar Group for their help in bringing my vision for this site to life! * Thanks so much for listening! Stay up to date on book releases,...

In this Writers' Room interview with pilot and author Pat Valdata, she talks about her writing journey and offers advice for other aspiring writers from critique groups, exploring poetry, attending conferences, writing competitions, to dealing with rejection but pressing on.  *Check out the new Literary Aviatrix Website for books, interviews, news, blogs, and the Writers' Room! Big thanks to Shaesta Waiz and Michael Wildes of the Women Soar Group for their help in bringing my vision for this...

In this interview with glider instructor and author Pat Valdata, we talk about her novel Crosswind, which we paired with the memoir, Skybound, by Rebecca Loncraine during the month of June 2023. Pat also shares her newly revised and republished poetry collection Where No Man Can Touch, in which she writes from the perspective of pioneering aviatrices. *Check out the new Literary Aviatrix Website for books, interviews, news, blogs, and the Writers' Room! Big thanks to Shaesta Waiz and Michael...

In this interview with Charles Morgan Evans, historian, founding curator of the Hiller Aviation Museum, and author of two books, War of the Aeronauts: A History of Ballooning in the Civil War and Helicopter Heroine—Valerie Andre: Surgeon, Pioneer Rescue Pilot, and Her Courage Under Fire, we talk about the incredible feats of a woman who flew almost 500 combat missions in Indochina and Algeria in the 1950s-1960, at the same time she was treating traumatic head injuries in battlefield hospitals...

In honor of Pride Month, I’m highlighting this excerpt from my interview with Julie Tizard about her Lesbian romance novel, The Road to Wings. Julie has written three of the ten books I’ve been able to find that feature both women in aviation and LGBTQ+ characters, and soon you’ll be able to sort the books on my new website, www.LitararyAviatrix.com, which will launch in the next few weeks, to find your specific niche or interest.    Check out the new Literary Aviatrix Website for books,...