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 a Novel for Adults: One YA Author’s Experience
Writing a Novel for Adults: One YA Author’s Experience A well-meaning friend called me recently to tell me how much he’d enjoyed DEADLY SETUP, my latest young adult novel. “You know,” he said, “you’re such a good writer that I bet you could write a book for adults someday.” My friend meant this as a […]
Research for To Free the Stars By J’nell Ciesielski
Research for To Free the Stars By J’nell Ciesielski Anyone who knows me or has heard me talk about the writing process is fully aware that research is my favorite part of this job. It’s that magical time before any words are put on paper, when magic sparks in the air and the imagination stirs […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Halley Sutton
Authors interviewing characters: Halley Sutton interviews Salma Lowe from her novel THE HURRICANE BLONDE Salma Lowe knows what it’s like to be in the spotlight. A former child actor, she became a fixture of the tabloids during the late nineties for her wild child exploits. Then there’s her family. Her father, Dave Lowe, was considered […]
I Am a Woman, Jewish, and Gay by Melissa Giberson
I Am a Woman, Jewish, and Gay. Melissa Giberson Martin was soft-spoken and had touched a soft spot in my heart. I didn’t know much about him, but I knew he was mourning the recent death of his mother. I knew his injury, the reason he sought my services as an occupational therapist, prevented him […]
On Writing Unfinished Business
I was never told it would take four years to write a book. No one ever told me much about writing a book at all, in fact, though to be fair that’s most likely because I never asked. There are so many things you can do in 4 years’ time. You can have a baby—or […]
The Box: Experiments and Inspirations
Mandy-Suzanne Wong The Box: Experiments and Inspirations A novel about a box? It’s an experiment. Much about it is uncertain; including, as in all experiments, the outcomes and results. Those are for readers to determine, and I expect they’ll do so with greater dubiousness than conclusiveness. The nature of the experiment was to learn whether […]
The Story Behind The Girl from the Red Rose Motel By Susan Zurenda
The Girl From the Red Rose Motel tells a story in which two high school students from vastly different backgrounds who fall in love attempt to navigate complications readers might never imagine. Interwoven with the story of Hazel, an impoverished girl, and the affluent Sterling is the story of their English teacher, Angela Wilmore, as […]
How I went Amish for Three Days to Research my Thriller By C.G. Twiles
How I went Amish for three days to research my thriller By C.G. Twiles Eli tried to pass me meatloaf again. “Mmm,” he drawled in an exaggerated manner. “Are you suuuure you don’t want some? It smells so gooooooood.” I had already told him I was vegetarian. But this didn’t stop him from repeatedly dangling […]
Inspiration to write Sisters of Wartime England
Inspiration is magic. I have always been fascinated by the achievements of women. Authors such as Jane Austen who wrote six novels in the early 19th century. Two hundred years later they are still giving millions of readers pleasure. Mary Shelley, at only eighteen, wrote Frankenstein. One of my favourite authors is 20th century novelist, […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Susan Sage
Catherine McIntosh graduated from law school in 1923. She was one of the first women to graduate from Detroit College of Law. She’s ready to take the world by storm, as is her fiancé, Robert Sage, whom she met in law school. Their law firm, Sage & Sage, takes off—but then the Great Depression hit […]
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