Author Archive: Women Writers Women Books
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Animal Antics and Inspiration by Fern Michaels
By Fern Michaels I’ve been an animal lover all my life, but dogs have been the main focus. It didn’t matter if they were mutts, or pure bred. If they needed a home, I let them move in. At one point I had six at the same time, which is probably why they play such […]
September: Reading With Rochelle Weinstein
Hello Readers & Friends, I’m not going to lie. September’s been a rough month. That’s me. Real and authentic. While dealing with some personal family issues, our beloved North Carolina was ravaged by Hurricane Helene. The devastating footage is heartbreaking. My prayers go out to the western Carolina community and all those who was affected […]
The Real Life Making of a Fictional Psychologist
By Jenny Milchman Content warning: mention of violence against animals I always wanted to be a writer. I was that kid with her nose in a book, sneaking away at sleepovers to pore over the new-to-me volumes on my friends’ shelves, treasure chests each and every one. When I was in college and studying creative […]
Unlocking Family Secrets by Francine Falk-Allen
I was sitting across from my aunt Dorothy in a church recreation room, after yet another memorial service for one of my mother’s many brothers in 2001. Mom was born in 1908, had died in 1993, the eldest of twelve children (even more, I later learned), and I thought I’d heard all the stories there […]
Writing Version 2.0
Writing Version 2.0 A writer’s life, and career, is ever changing. Written and rewritten with every project we take on, each blank page we sit down to. And there’s another way in which we writers are always getting tossed and turned around and shaken about, which comes down to the tumultuousness of this industry. Rare […]
My Writing Process by Susan Plunket
Until this summer what I knew about writing I learned mostly from a lifetime of reading – Jane Austen, Stefan Zweig, Virginia Woolf, others. I love stories. My process was to sit most mornings before work and write, without censoring, until I had a first draft. Then, using intuition, hard thinking, and listening for the […]
Kimberly Brock: Authors Interviewing Characters
THE FABLED EARTH Sometimes the truth is found in a folktale. 1932 Cumberland Island off the coast of Southern Georgia is a strange place to encounter the opulence of the Gilded Age, but the last vestiges of the famed philanthropic Carnegie family still take up brief seasonal residence in their grand mansions there. This year’s […]
THE DEMON by Victory Witherkeigh, Excerpt
Face your inner demons with Victory Witherkeigh’s thrilling YA about a demon who possesses a teen girl and faces her toughest challenge yet: freshman year of college. The Demon (Oct 1, 2024) follows a girl possessed by a demon who is abandoned by her master and punished with a mortal life. Continuing the threads of […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Emma Barry, Bad Reputation
Emma Barry: My latest book details the behind the scenes drama on the set of Waverley, the hit historical romance series that streams on Videon (you know, the Netflix competitor). The show’s much anticipated third season will feature actor Cole James, who starred in Central Square, one of the defining soapy teen dramas of the […]
Write Local by Sarah Angleton
Write Local About twenty years ago, I stepped into an intimidating academic building that smelled of old books and institutional knowledge to receive some great well-worn advice I should have taken much sooner than I did. At the time, I was looking to change directions from my as yet unused undergraduate degree in zoology toward […]
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