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.
The Neighbor Wager Inspiration by Crystal Kaswell
The Neighbor Wager Inspiration by Crystal Kaswell I’ve never been one of those authors who lacked ideas. Most of the time, I have far too many, not too few. Everything I watch, everywhere I go, every conversation I have is a possible source of inspiration. So I don’t take any one source too seriously. I […]
Rue Matthiessen: On Writing Castles and Ruins
Castles & Ruins was inspired by a summer I spent in Galway, Ireland, with my husband and son. I had lived in Galway forty-one years before, when I was seven years old, in the summer of 1965. My mother, poet Deborah Love and father, writer Peter Matthiessen, had chosen Ireland as a long term getaway […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Paulette Kennedy
THE DEVIL AND MRS. DAVENPORT The bestselling author of The Witch of Tin Mountain and Parting the Veil mines the subtle horrors of 1950s America in a gripping novel about a woman under pressure―from the living and the dead. The first day of autumn brought the fever, and with the fever came the voices. Missouri, 1955. Loretta Davenport has […]
How “The Radiant Life Project” Was Born
How “The Radiant Life Project” Was Born By Kate King The Radiant Life Project was born from a decades-long series of events that ultimately crash landed me directly in the depths of the most profound burnout I’d ever experienced. All of my life I’ve been known as a busy worker bee with ambitious drive and […]
On Writing In Your Mind – The Infinite Universe of Yoko Ono
I have been a passionate fan of music, since seeing the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, when I was six years old. After a brief career as a writer for publications, I immersed myself in writing about the music that I love. I started writing a blog in 2002 (madelinex.com). It’s […]
The Secret Life of A Publishing Company Part II
The Secret Life of A Publishing Company Part II In my first post, I outlined why Jurcell Virginia and I set up Inkspot Publishing www.inkspotpublishing.com, and I promised a blueprint for setting up a publishing company. The steps are not sequential, and if you decide to go ahead, you will find yourself engaged in all […]
Alice McIlroy: On Writing Genre-Blending Fiction
Alice McIlroy: On writing genre-blending fiction It’s funny stumbling upon my debut novel in the crime section of bookshops, which is where it tends to be. Each time, finding it being stocked is a unique thrill. There is nothing quite like walking into a shop and finding it on the shelves: the sheer joy of […]
The Journey from Cocoon to Cosmos
The Journey from Cocoon to Cosmos By Lyn Patterson As humans, we are inspired by stories of change and metamorphosis. There’s no greater symbol of this than the lowly, crawling caterpillar that evolves into the majestic, soaring butterfly. But, to me, the most important part of the story happens during the in-between, quiescent, transformative stage. […]
Judy Lannon: My Self-Publishing Journey
2024 has started as a year of highs and lows, and the year is still young. I will focus on the highs. In February I published my second novel, The Making of Genevieve. This is definitely one of the highs. It’s almost two years ago to the day when I published my debut novel, Nine […]
From Clichés to Complexity: Neda Aria’s Journey as Lilith Wilde in Reinventing Romance
From Clichés to Complexity: Neda Aria’s Journey as Lilith Wilde in Reinventing Romance I began my literary journey wrapped in the anonymity of a pen name back in Iran between ages 19 to 21, crafting what I now view as ‘cheesy, mass-pleasing, marketable YA fiction’. Those days, although successful, are like distant shadows to the […]
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