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 Not-Write: 5 Ways to Advance Your Literary Work through Means that Aren’t Normally Considered Writing
How to Not-Write: 5 Ways to Advance Your Literary Work through Means that Aren’t Normally Considered Writing Like most writers, I spend my days not writing. We spend them working at jobs that can pay the bills. Also, and I think this is especially the case for women writers, we spend them caring for other […]
Thoughts and Tips for Aspiring and Debut Authors
Before publishing my novel, THERE ARE NO RULES FOR THIS in May, I had been either writing it, editing it, proofreading it, or getting it ready for prime time in some way for over 8 years. So, while I am only newly on the other side of publication, I have some thoughts and tips for […]
Lessons of Love By Barbara Josselsohn
Lessons of Love By Barbara Josselsohn When I was about eight, one of the strangest, scariest, and possibly most revealing moments of my life occurred. Now, like all novelists, I am constantly mining my memory, searching for stories that have stuck with me over the years. As a matter of fact, in the early stages […]
Street Smart Safety for Women: The Writing Process By Laura Frombach
Street Smart Safety for Women: The Writing Process By Laura Frombach “Could it have been the violence?” That question at that moment was the genesis for Street Smart Safety for Women: Your Guide to Defensive Living. It was a sentence that would change my life. I’d grown up with family violence, had been the victim […]
Romance Books Made Me A Feminist By Aurora Ascher
Romance Books Made Me A Feminist By Aurora Ascher This is the story of how I discovered my feminism through reading romance novels, and how that discovery ultimately led me to make writing them my career. I still remember when I read my first romance. The year I moved to Montreal, I got a job […]
Motherhood and The Process of Poetry by Rosanna McGlone
Prior to writing my book, The Process of Poetry, I interviewed the Chinese-American poet Adrienne Su, about the earliest draft of her poem ‘After the Dinner party’. Whilst last lines are often powerful and, may at times, need some unpacking, Su’s last line seemed particularly obtuse. I stared at the handwritten draft, ‘cheap merchandise of […]
Christy Healy: On Writing
I rarely reflect on the process of writing Unbound, simply because it was a difficult time in my life. I began writing a very rough first draft after the birth of my second child; I was struggling with PPD, grieving the loss of my mother-in-law, and trying to adjust to life with a newly-diagnosed diabetic […]
C.L. LAUDER INTERVIEWS KYJTA CROMENK
About The Quelling (The Quelling – A Trilogy, 1) Befriend your enemy, save your friend. Fans of Hunger Games and Shadow and Bone will be gripped by this dystopian sci-fi set on Aurora Saura, a planet of merchants and farmers whose quiet lives were interrupted nineteen years prior by an invasion of technically advanced beings […]
Thoughts on My Process as a Writer
Thoughts on My Process as a Writer I’m Barbara Sommer Feigin, a refugee who at age two-and-a-half escaped from Nazi Germany in July of 1940, at the onset of World War II with my Jewish father, my Lutheran mother and 79 other refugees on a terrifying seventeen-day train trip from Berlin to Yokohama, Japan, and […]
The Strange and Expansive World of Narrative Craft By Angie Elita Newell
The Strange and Expansive World of Narrative Craft By Angie Elita Newell Almost every writer will tell you, you actually spend more time thinking about writing than actually writing. In that strange moonlit landscape an idea dances in the mist, consuming you, it plays like a lucid dream in your head. In this transcendental space […]
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