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.
How To Break Free and Live a More Authentic Life – Shannon Talbot
How To Break Free and Live a More Authentic Life – Shannon Talbot Who am I to write a book? I don’t have enough experience. Who wants to hear my stories? Will people think doing exercises in a book are stupid? These are just some of the thoughts that went through my head after leaving […]
Why is Book Marketing So Damn Hard?
Why is Book Marketing So Damn Hard? I offer a marketing mastermind for writers, called 12 weeks to Book Launch Success. In this group program, I guide novelists and memoir writers to develop a successful launch plan for their book. (If this sounds interesting, more details at the end!) Before developing my program, I interviewed […]
Where Reality Meets Inspiration: The Queen of the Valley
Where Reality Meets Inspiration: The Queen of the Valley The question people ask me the most in interviews is what inspires my novels. The answer is not so straightforward since most of my stories are a compilation of different things: historical events, family memories, photographs, things I read, and my own imagination, of course. My […]
How to Write Outside Your Cultural Experience Without Harm
How to Write Outside Your Cultural Experience Without Harm By Paulette Stout As writers, we have great latitude when choosing what we create. And with diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging at the forefront for many in the creative community, our instinct should rightly be to answer the call in our work. But writing outside our […]
AFTERSHOCK by Zhang Ling: Excerpt
Born in China, Zhang Ling moved to Canada in 1986 and in the mid-1990s began to write and publish fiction in Chinese while working as a clinical audiologist in Toronto. Zhang became a literary sensation when her novella, AFTERSHOCK, was made into China’s first IMAX movie in 2010. Directed by China’s most cinematic genius, Feng […]
Not a Cheerful Topic: Writing as if It Matters
Not a Cheerful Topic: Writing as if It Matters By Leah Rampy “It’s not really a cheerful topic,” my friend ventured as she zeroed in on my book title. “No,” I thought to myself. “It’s not intended to be.” In fact, I wrote Earth and Soul: Reconnecting amid Climate Chaos because I am deeply concerned about […]
How Herbs Inform My Writing
Plants and their uses have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. As a child, my maternal grandmother helped me harvest spearmint sprigs for an iced tea garnish from her mini-garden along the house’s foundation, showing me which stalks should be cut, and which should be left. I delighted […]
THE SECRET LIFE OF A PUBLISHING COMPANY
THE SECRET LIFE OF A PUBLISHING COMPANY A short introduction to Inkspot Publishing Inkspot Publishing is an indie micro publisher founded in 2022. We released five titles in 2023 and are due to release four more in 2024. Our bag is commercial literary fiction, but one of our 2024 releases will be The Neglected Samurai […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Kathleen Collins
About the book: Study in Hysteria In the middle of 1974, Flora is privileged and middle-aged in a liberation-hued America, and she feels both compelled by and left out of the women’s movement. She is burdened by psychic conflict, a domineering and philandering husband, a distant daughter, a secret foray into psychotherapy, and a clandestine […]
Reading With Rochelle Weinstein: January
Hello Readers & Friends, That was a loooong January, but we had plenty of time for some great reads. It was also my birthday month, which I share with the hubster (his is the day before mine). By the time we get to my birthday, we’re all birthday-ed out. What’s your idea of the perfect […]
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