Author Archive: Women Writers Women Books
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Authors Interviewing Characters: Stephanie Vasquez
ALL OUR WARS For fans of Katie Gutierrez’s More Than You’ll Ever Know and Netflix’s Narcos comes a high-stakes thriller about the daughter of a high-ranking Mexican cartel leader dragged back to the life she fought hard to escape. Twelve years have passed since Sofia De Luna’s mother was murdered. Sofia now leads a quiet life in Chicago, far […]
Erica Miner: On Writing
In 2010, an article on npr.org posited the theory that rabid fans of grisly online series should consider opera as an alternative to feed their bloodlust. To wit, violent shows such as Game of Thrones don’t hold a candle to the operatic carnage in Bartok’s Bluebeard Castle, Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia, Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites, […]
On Writing Girl, Uncoded: A Memoir of Passion, Betrayal, and Eventual Blessings
By Brandi Dredge What inspired you to write a book? I love that question because the answer is the perfect blend of what is known and what isn’t. What we can see, hear, taste, touch, and what we can’t. The inspiration is the physical and spiritual that melded together to create a comforting and hearty […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Kes Trester
Authors Interviewing Characters: Kes Trester, author of The Nine series—The Nine, Alder House, and the upcoming To The Nines—and A Dangerous Year. The Nine is a “Gripping paranormal series starter whose heroine boldly flips the script.”—BOOKLIFE Editor’s Pick The Nine is an ancient society dedicated to preserving the safety and secrecy of the paranormally gifted […]
How I Used My Mixed-Race Identity to Inform My Debut Historical Novel, Sleeping in the Sun
by Joanne Howard In my debut novel, Sleeping in the Sun, I delve into the complexities of identity and belonging through the lens of an American missionary family in 1930s India. Set against the backdrop of the waning years of the British Raj, the novel explores the unique outsider position of the Hintons, an American […]
EXCLUSIVE COVER REVEAL of Maddie Rose Andry’s MORTAL END
Why a Cherry Blossom Tree? By Maddie Rose Andry, author of Mortal End What does a cherry blossom tree have to do with vampires you ask? Back in 2008 the moment I glimpsed the arthritic and ancient cherry tree at the Owen Rose Garden in Eugene Oregon something in my heart cracked. With each step […]
Launch Diaries: The Day I Stopped Querying
I spent three years in the query trenches, determined to land a literary agent. For much of that time, I wasn’t part of a writerly community (didn’t believe I qualified), had told no one what I was attempting (seemed easier should I fail), and didn’t know any published/aspiring fiction authors. All I had were loose […]
Cornelia Spelman Interviews Her Younger Self
SOLACE by Cornelia Spelman is told with “compelling frankness and consistent intimacy” (Naomi Shihab Nye, author of Everything Comes Next and Voices in the Air). It asks: how do we become the person we are? A portrait of the emotional legacies and psychological landscapes that shaped the author’s life, SOLACE unfurls in a series of […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Echoes of Us by Joy Jordan-Lake
by Joy Jordan-Lake ECHOES OF US From the bestselling author of Under a Gilded Moon comes the soaring story of an unlikely friendship of three men and one extraordinary woman and the legacy they built—if their own secrets don’t destroy it. In the midst of World War II, a Tennessee farm boy, a Jewish Cambridge student, and […]
On Storytelling and the Tarot: A Personal Journey by Kris Waldherr
by Kris Waldherr One of my favorite literary touchstones is Dante’s Inferno. The story of the poet’s pilgrimage through the underworld has fed some of my creative projects as an illustrator and writer. The Inferno kicks off with one of the most famous sentences ever set on paper. To paraphrase roughly in English: “In the middle of the […]
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