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 ME LIST by Julee Balko, Excerpt
THE ME LIST “Balko’s writing is pure magic and it’s a must-read for today’s divided world.” –J.D. Greyson, founder of Move Me Poetry Ziplining despite being scared of heights. Learning yoga when you’re afraid of downward anything. Facing your strained relationship with your mother. When Olivia writes a ME List, she picks 10 things to get […]
The Story Behind The Healing Train
The Story Behind The Healing Train After battling breast cancer, I began working on the novel I had started before I got sick. But the words wouldn’t come no matter how hard I tried, so I set it aside in favor of getting more rest. As I lay in bed, thinking about all that occurred […]
Kimberly Garrett Brown: Letter to Langston Hughes
Dear Langston, It’s February 1st, and I’m thinking of you. Today, you would be 123 years old. It’s not a particularly significant marker, but this day never passes without me feeling the need to celebrate your significance as a Black poet. Most years, I let the feeling pass without doing anything. But this year, it […]
Rendering Judgments Without Judging: On Healing Others and Self by Sarah Kim, Th.D.
Rendering Judgments Without Judging: On Healing Others and Self Sarah Kim, Th.D. In a nation built by immigrants such as America, more people live between cultures while everyone is exposed to ethnic diversity. Navigating through a culturally diverse society may be stimulating but also challenging, especially if one must serve as a cultural mediator. As […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Kelley McNeil, author of Mayluna
Authors Interviewing Characters: Kelley McNeil, author of Mayluna “McNeil’s latest is a dreamy, melancholy look back at young love…Fans of wistful love stories and intellectual music retrospectives will appreciate the astronomical metaphors throughout, intertwining music, math, and the planets into this complicated love story.” —Booklist In MAYLUNA, the story is revealed between a legendary band, […]
Writing Leave Everything You Know Behind By Ginny Fite
Writing Leave Everything You Know Behind By Ginny Fite Long before I begin to write a novel, well before I know what I’m writing, thoughts and questions arrive unbidden at all times of the day. If I’m paying attention, I’ll write them down. Thus, my desk is littered with yellow stickies and pads with scribbled […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Dana Hawkins
NOT IN THE PLAN Free-spirited coffee shop owner meets uptight coffee addict. Is an opposites-attract match brewing… or burning? Crushed under the weight of writer’s block and a looming deadline, Mack escapes from New York to Seattle. She meets Charlie, a beautiful, generous, nearly bankrupt coffee shop owner recovering from heartbreak. For the first time, […]
Books and Brews — Where Beer and Literature Meet!
Books and Brews — where beer and literature meet! A beer hater doing a podcast about beer…well, life is full of interesting twists! That’s what makes it fun! I hate beer—well, most beer. My first taste of beer was at a frat party during my freshman year at college. I couldn’t understand how anyone could […]
BOTH HANDS
BOTH HANDS For a long time, I walked around saying, I can’t find my way back. At first, it was a voice in my head, but then it became my response to anyone who asked, how is your writing going? The more I answered, I can’t find my way back, the more I clung to […]
A Tale of Two Dorothys and How They Influenced Me by Barbara Lien-Cooper
A Tale of Two Dorothys and How They Influenced Me by Barbara Lien-Cooper As a writer of urban/dark fantasy stories (Gun Street Girl, Hungry Ghosts (a graphic novel and also a related-but-not-the-same prose novel by the same name, The Talking Cure, and Song to the Siren), I had originally planned to write this essay about obscure female fantasy/horror […]
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