Author Archive: Women Writers Women Books
Dutch by birth and serial emigrant, Barbara currently lives with her husband and daughter in a tiny village in Galicia, Spain, as basic and simple as can be. W Barbara's website.
EXCERPT: All for You: A World War II Family Memoir of Love, Separation, and Loss
All for You: A World War II Family Memoir of Love, Separation, and Loss Emil, a Jewish man in 1930s Germany, loves Deta, a Lutheran, but Nazi racial purity laws forbid their marriage. Desperate to find a place where their love can survive, they must separate to get away. Deta leaves for England, but Emil […]
Writing the Other: My Protagonist is Disabled, I am Not
Writing the Other: My protagonist is disabled, I am not My second novel, Unswerving, published by the University of Wisconsin Press, is about a young woman trying to rebuild her life after she’s paralyzed in a car accident. Estranged from her family, Tave gradually uncovers her inner strength and finds a new home within the […]
On Writing The Fortune Teller’s Prophecy: A Memoir of an Unlikely Doctor
The Fortune Teller’s Prophecy: A Memoir of an Unlikely Doctor: The process. I’m an action junkie. I love suspense, plot twists, and cliffhangers. As a child, I consumed scores of tales of fantasy, magic, romance, and adventure. As a teenager, I could devour three books in one afternoon and I dreamed about becoming a writer. […]
THE ALONE TIME by Elle Marr, Excerpt
We are delighted to feature this excerpt from THE ALONE TIME by Elle Marr! THE ALONE TIME For two sisters, confronting the past could come at a terrible price in a riveting novel about a family tragedy—and family secrets—by the #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author Elle Marr. Fiona and Violet Seng were just children when […]
Norah Woodsey: On Writing THE STATES
In the spring of 2020, the first draft of my second novel The Control Problem was coming together. A hard science fiction story, it blends a woman’s experiences of young adulthood and the creation of a super-intelligent artificial intelligence. I had spent years on research, reading weighty tomes considered the bedrock of AI thinking, women’s […]
ON LOSING MY CURRENCY
ON LOSING MY CURRENCY By the time I finally made my way through the Chatbot to the Specialist (i.e. human) I was already immersed in that boiling stew of frustration and fury in which I’ve found myself increasingly often in recent years. As I attempted, with little success, to both explain myself to and understand […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Peggy Webb Interviews Victoria Logan
Authors Interviewing Characters: Peggy Webb Interviews Victoria Logan About the book: Rachel, a schoolteacher and widow with two small children and a feisty grandmother, is living an ordinary life on their Logan Ranch in Colorado until a madman dubbed the Collector comes calling. The Collector has been terrorizing Manitou Springs for almost a year by […]
Underestimated: The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls by Chelsey Goodan, EXCERPT
Underestimated: The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls by Chelsey Goodan *National Bestseller* “If you have a teenage girl in your life, you need to read this.” —Oprah Daily In the vein of Reviving Ophelia and Untangled comes a fresh, unexpected, and empowering guide to better understand teenage girls, revealing how their insights can create heartfelt connections and impactful change. […]
The Everlasting Joy of Pranks by Colleen Oakes
The Everlasting Joy of Pranks by Colleen Oakes When I was creating the concept for my newest book, The Second Favorite Daughter’s Club, I reminisced about all the books that I loved reading when I was in middle school in the early 90’s and how many featured pranksters, class clowns and hilarious side-kicks. There was […]
My Breasts Don’t Smile…? Writing—and Writing as—Opposite Genders
My Breasts Don’t Smile…? Writing—and Writing as—Opposite Genders In the 1997 movie As Good as It Gets, Jack Nicholson’s famous-author character is asked by a giddy, nearly trembling female fan, “How do you write women so well?” Turning toward her and advancing slowly into her personal space, he responds, “I think of a man, and […]
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