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.
Writing my Bi-Cultural Girlhood Memoir of Growing up in the Middle East: Dancing Into the Light
Writing my bi-cultural girlhood memoir of growing up in the Middle East: Dancing Into the Light I was once asked why I didn’t write a bi-cultural memoir, since my fiction involved exotic settings in the Middle East and colorful characters I had known intimately growing up. My response was that I still felt too young […]
On Co-Authorship and Expanding the Conversation
On Co-Authorship and Expanding the Conversation By Annika Paradise, co-author of WONDER YEAR: A GUIDE TO LONG-TERM FAMILY TRAVEL AND WORLDSCHOOLING The heart of our new book, Wonder Year: A Guide to Long-term Family Travel and Worldschooling, is collaborative conversation. Part inspiration and part how-to, our book demystifies the seemingly outrageous prospect of embarking on […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Lee Kelly interviews Liz and Britta from With Regrets
Authors Interviewing Characters: Lee Kelly interviews Liz and Britta from With Regrets Seven courses, seven guests, twenty-four hours that will obliterate everything. When recent NYC-transplant Liz Brinkley and her husband are invited to an exclusive soiree by their neighbor, “lifestyle guru” Britta Harris-Che, Liz’s immediate thought is hell no. Britta is insufferable, and Liz is […]
How I Birthed My Memoir
By Liz Kinchen How I Birthed My Memoir I began writing my memoir twenty years ago, but I didn’t know that then. I have always kept journals, even as a young person, so at age 45, when my therapist suggested I intentionally write about my childhood to help me remember some of the murkier details, […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Bethany Turner
She’s a sunny morning-show host. He’s a cynical ex-reporter. They’re destined to hate each other . . . Aren’t they? Brynn Cornell has to be stuck in a nightmare. Just last week, she was riding high as cohost of the popular morning show Sunup. She’s America’s Ray of Sunshine—the girl-next-door beauty who drives up TV ratings […]
Who Am I? Who are You?
Who Am I? Who are You? Often called a dreamer, one who tests as INFP on the Myers Briggs Type Indicator Test (MBTI) is idealistic, highly imaginative, creative, and compassionate, but tends to be disorganized. Yup, that’s me, to a T. Based on the work of Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers, a mother-daughter duo […]
On Writing My Poetic Memoir
Don’t believe what Robert Frost said about “The Road Not Taken.” Fifty years ago, I turned at a fork in the road, having completed my college degree with a major in English and an emphasis on poetry. I chose the path that led me to an academic career in information science and technology, and focusing […]
On Writing Grace, by Delaney Parker
Hello. My name is Delaney Parker, a writer and the author of the sexually charged, emotionally raw erotic fiction, GRACE. My life experiences as a woman, a mother and of having Multiple Sclerosis have given me a view that is unique and refreshing. My writing allows my characters to be themselves with their true feelings. […]
On Writing Joy Rides Through the Tunnel of Grief
On Writing Joy Rides Through the Tunnel of Grief Joy Rides Through the Tunnel of Grief began the day my fiancé confessed—a line of dental floss dangling from his incisor—that he did not want children. Not with me, or anyone, ever. This was news. After twelve years together, a wedding planned and looming, I had […]
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