Author Archive: Women Writers Women Books
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They Said What? Reader Reactions to The Marriage Debt
By Christina Consolino When I first began writing my latest novel, The Marriage Debt, I had women readers in mind. After all, the main topic—menopause—is a “normal” part of aging that affects many women. As I fleshed out Nika and her husband, Ethan, their relationship, Nika’s relationship with others, and how prevalent perimenopausal and menopausal […]
Snark Comes to Spark by Ellen Notbohm
As I wake this morning after another night of badly broken sleep, I see my pencils sitting there on the nightstand in the half-light, their points dulled from the last time I used them. Which was—when? My weary thought is, I can’t write this morning. My pencils are dull. My pencils are pointless, literally and figuratively. […]
Writing Through the Wreckage: How I Turned My Trauma Into a Memoir That Set Me Free
By Brooke Deanne, Author of Shattered, Broken & Beautiful I never set out to write a memoir. I set out to survive. To simply make sense of the shattered, and broken pieces of my life. To piece myself back together after years of religious oppression, narcissistic abuse, childhood trauma, and deeply buried sexual abuse that […]
Stories, and the Unexpected Garden Path
By Juliet Greenwood The book I’m working on at the moment is based around a garden. That’s not surprising, as most of my stories involve gardens in one way or another – after all, my first published novel is called Eden’s Garden, and you can’t get more garden than that! Until this year, I wasn’t […]
A Note from Jill Tingley, Star of JILL IS NOT HAPPY
A Note from Jill Tingley, Star of JILL IS NOT HAPPY Dear Fellow Women (and I use that term loosely for some of you), Since you’re all so fascinated with women’s stories, you simply must read JILL IS NOT HAPPY —if only to learn how a real woman handles the complexities of marriage, motherhood, and […]
Try it, You Might Like it: 5 Reasons to Write Micro Fiction
A micro fiction challenge might be the most fun you can have while improving your writing If you’d told me a few years ago that a micro fiction challenge would change my mind about writing super short stories, I probably would have scoffed. Because writing short is hard (and writing short and well is even […]
The Importance of a Solid Setting
By Judith Keim One of the first questions a reader has when she opens a book is Who? What? Where? In women’s fiction, the author must introduce the hero or heroine to the reader, identify a location, and give the reader an idea of what it is the heroine or hero wants. That then sets […]
Writing Sea Change: How a Girl Who Hated Science Became a Science Fiction Author
By Susan Fletcher My mother was a chemist. Back in the 1940s, she did some of the first research on smog in the Los Angeles basin. One of my sisters is a mathematician and computer scientist; my other sister is a physical therapist. My sister-in-law runs a biochemistry lab at Stanford, and my daughter has […]
What I Didn’t Know
by Beverly Burch It started with stories, a series of short fiction over a period of years. Some I published in literary journals, some lived on my computer, but the characters began to recur. I didn’t know they were going to do that. In a story with a new character, a woman from an earlier […]
Should I Edit an Anthology?
By Cindy Eastman As a writer, I often look for and submit to anthologies as a way to get my work out there and add a publishing credit to my portfolio. It was probably only natural, then, for the idea to create and edit my own anthology to form. Here’s my advice for those mulling […]
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