Author Archive: Women Writers Women Books
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#GOALS By Kristin Owens
By Kristin Owens My debut novel launched last month. I admit, I’ve had conflicting emotions about it: happiness, acute anxiety, along with a fair amount of nostalgia for the good ol’ days when I was blissfully uninformed. But my ultimate goal is in sight; I can almost see it materialize … soon very soon (rubs hands […]
Our “Unmet Mentors”
By Catherine Browder I was 29 and teaching in Japan when I decided to write fiction. I had always had the desire to write but was deflated by that notion many women of my generation had: I don’t have anything to say. Besides, Life had intervened: marriage, teaching jobs, commutes, dinner preps and vacuuming. Then […]
On Writing and Reading Despicable Rich Guys
By Melinda Copp Nothing has challenged me as a reader and writer like the prevalence of rich guys in romance novels. Wealth is common in genre romance because that’s part of the fantasy of being taken care of. If he’s rich, then you don’t have to worry about paying rent or putting food on the […]
Interview with Dr. Dawn Filos: Author of TALES OF A PET VET: STORIES FROM THE CLINIC AND HOUSE CALLS
Dr. Dawn Filos grew up in New Jersey in a family of eccentric animal lovers, preparing her for a lifelong career spent with like-minded pet people. She was a veterinarian in Pennsylvania for over thirty years. Her Memoir, TALES OF A PET VET: STORIES FROM THE CLINIC AND HOUSE CALLS is out now. We are […]
Jessica Strawser: Authors Interviewing Characters
CATCH YOU LATER If Lark and Mikki didn’t have each other, they’d have nothing in this miserable town. So the lifelong best friends stick together, working night shift at the highway travel stop, going nowhere fast. Until the ordinary Wednesday that a good-looking stranger stops in on his all-night drive to a destination beach wedding, […]
The Inspiration For Finding KIND: Discovering Hope and Purpose While Loving Kids with Invisible Neurological Differences
Kari A. Baker I never planned to become an author, which is ironic since I spent 30 years in the financial services business as – you guessed it – a planner. But when my son was diagnosed with autism at age 3, my plan went out the window. I started writing what would ultimately become Finding […]
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 […]
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