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.
SHE WHO WINS: Excerpt
“Renee has you on a roller coaster of emotions from happiness to heartache and everything in between. She will call you out on your sh*t (in the most thoughtful way!) because she believes we can achieve excellence. It’s time we break the rules, trust ourselves, and follow Renee’s lead. Bold. Strong. Fierce.” Jennifer Hurvitz, Dating […]
Storytelling in the Round: A Family Lawyer’s Perspective
Storytelling in the Round: A Family Lawyer’s Perspective I practice family law, which means I’ve spent many hours and days in courtrooms listening, closely, to people tell different versions of the same events. Sometimes someone is objectively lying: no, Dad did not take the kid to the doctor’s, because the medical records show that Mom […]
From Stage Zero Breast Cancer Patient to Author: The writing of “A Breast Cancer Journey”
Jennifer A. Douglas From Stage Zero Breast Cancer Patient to Author The writing of “A Breast Cancer Journey” In the quiet of the early morning, I opened my laptop to the document no one knew about. I began writing, words flowing out of my soul, fast and unfiltered. Once they left my fingers, I dared […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Livy Hart
Planes, Trains, And All the Feels Fans of Christina Lauren and Tessa Bailey will adore this witty and unforgettable rom-com about skyways, highways, and all the perfectly wrong ways to fall in love. As the black sheep of the family, choreographer Cassidy Bliss vowed she’d do anything to get home in time to help with […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: JJ Cook & AL Cook
JJ Cook & AL Cook, MD in conversation with Ophelia Sasaki: The Percivious Trilogy, Author/Character Interview About PERCIVIOUS: Every day, society seems to step closer and closer to becoming a world straight out of a dystopian novel. Throughout the series, the Percivious trilogy has pushed against this path by showing the world a more utopian […]
Keep Writing Until They Are Forced to Say Yes
Keep Writing Until They Are Forced to Say Yes I got a late start as a writer. I was an avid reader, sure, but write a book? Never crossed my mind until I was in my 50s and had a story to tell. I’d never so much as taken a writing class, but one frozen […]
Book Origins and the Ongoing Journey
Book Origins and the Ongoing Journey By Beth Fisher-Yoshida New Story, New Power: A Woman’s Guide to Negotiation, took a few years to research and write, but it was a lifetime in the making. I have been working in the area of negotiation for more than 30 years, with its origins in my experience in intercultural communications. […]
Confessions of a Currently Failed Novelist
Confessions of a Currently Failed Novelist By Sandra Hutchison I haven’t written a word of fiction for over a year now, except for some half-hearted editing of a romantic comedy that ought to have been released a year ago and still hasn’t been. That’s because the ending needs a little work, in theory. In reality, […]
Generational Dynamics: Story DNA
Generational Dynamics: Story DNA There have been stretches in my creative life when family and career commitments demanded most of my available time and attention. At those moments I imagined my writing life as a river, sometimes ebbing and sometimes swelling, swirling around other demands and obligations—personal, professional, familial. But also like a river, always […]
Why do we need Older Characters in Books?
Why do we need older characters in books? One of the joys of reading is when you can relate to a character and feel as though you could be best friends with them. I loved reading rom-coms in my twenties and thirties with fun female characters navigating the dating scene. However, as I reached my […]
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