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.
Six Things I’ve Learned After Publishing My First Book
Six Things I’ve Learned After Publishing My First Book by Laura Whitfield I participated in my first literary festival last weekend as part of a panel about finding fun and taking risks. During the event the moderator asked, “What was fun about writing your book?” “I can’t say that writing my book was fun,” I […]
WHAT KATIE DID (and what she definitely shouldn’t have done…)
WHAT KATIE DID (and what she definitely shouldn’t have done…) The protagonist in my latest book, The Bad Wife, is a woman who becomes obsessed by a stranger. She knows nothing about this man, but meets him when she’s at a low point in her life and starts to fantasise about being in a relationship […]
How Seeing The World through a Blind Woman’s Eyes made me a Better Writer
I attended university in San Diego, California. As a mid-level Spanish speaker, I enjoyed taking weekend trips into Mexico. Like many college students, I worked at a number of part-time jobs. One of the most interesting ones was as a personal assistant for a professor who was blind. One Monday, after I’d related my weekend […]
The Alchemy of Fiction
The alchemy of writing fiction. By Victoria Costello Joan Didion said we tell ourselves stories in order to live. I wonder if we also change our stories in order to heal. It was my go-to trauma. Seven-year-old me finding my father passed out drunk on the floor of our flooding basement, with an empty booze […]
On Writing She Rides, Chasing Dreams Across California and Mexico
She Rides, Chasing Dreams Across California and Mexico By Alenka Vrecek During my 2500 mile long mountain bike journey from my home in Lake Tahoe, California to my second home at the tip of Baja Peninsula in Mexico, I wrote a blog, so my family and friends could follow along. With every post I shared, […]
How Being a Math Teacher Inspired My Writing
How Being a Math Teacher Inspired My Writing by Mary Katheen Mehuron I was a math and science teacher for many years, and I enjoyed it. Though I have a Bachelor of Science and two master’s degrees as part of my teacher training, I’ve never taken a writing class in a college setting. (That’s about […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: E.L. Deards
Spanning decades, Wild With All Regrets follows the psychological journey and descent of Lucas Connolly, a young gay man with a heart full of secrets. Born in turn-of-the-century Dublin to an overworked mother and a father who couldn’t understand him, Lucas finds love and acceptance for the first time in his dearest friend Jamie Murray. […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Kathryn Crawley
Walking on Fire is a loss-of-innocence, coming-of-age love story set in Greece in 1974, following the fall of the seven-year Greek dictatorship. Kate is dropped into a boiling cauldron of anti-Americanism as she has been hired as a speech pathologist in a center for Greek cerebral palsied children. She falls in love with the Greek […]
Finding A Story: Wendy Walker
Finding a Story What Remains is my fifth thriller and I continue to be mystified by the origins of a story. As a former lawyer, and a person who likes to plan just about everything, this has been the most challenging part of writing. If only I could sit at my desk with a strong […]
Five Truths on Technology, Creativity & the Power of Human Stories
By Kris Spisak A lot of headlines scream for our attention these days. Some caterwaul about how writers no longer have a place in the world. Others claim storytelling will be hijacked by modern technology. But here’s the truth rarely in the conversation: Creativity is the essence of humanity itself. It’s how we have survived. […]
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