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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.
Excerpt from OUR MOTHERS, OUR DAUGHTERS
The mother-daughter relationship defines who we are, how we view ourselves, and what we want for our lives. Much like this multi-faceted relationship, the lessons in Our Mothers, Our Daughters are strong, yet soft. Through a collection of curated stories, readers journey alongside moms and daughters as they share poignant moments and messages of an everlasting bond. […]
From Nursing Home to Published Author
I’m told the average author doesn’t query publishers from a hospital bed in a nursing home. I’d like to think, then, that I’m not your average author, because that’s what I did in the summer of 2020. Since that time, I’ve had two novels published and a novella releasing at the end of May. Not […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Marina Antropow Cramer
ABOUT THE BOOK MARFA’S RIVER Marfa, a Ukrainian woman living in Brussels in the 1950s, is haunted by the catastrophic death of her child ten years before, at the end of World War II. Torn from her home in her teens, she struggles with dark memories and profound loneliness, exacerbated by her introspective nature. Her story […]
Isabella de Medici: In Her Words, She Tells the Truth of How she Died
Isabella de Medici: In her words, she tells the truth of how she died. By Melissa Muldoon, author of “Waking Isabella, because beauty can’t sleep forever” Image Credit: Melissa Muldoon original illustration of Isabella de Medici Greetings, my dear friends. My name is Isabella de’ Medici, but many called me the Star of Florence! I […]
Writing Through Grief: Ana Veciana-Suarez
I was on the fourth draft — or was it the fifth? — of my historical novel, Dulcinea, when my father died. Seven weeks later my daughter, the eldest of my five children, passed away, too. Neither death was unexpected, but recognizing the inevitable didn’t lessen the grief. Nor did it help me deal with […]
My Writing Journey by Hope Gibbs
My Writing Journey… By Hope Gibbs As a debut novelist at the age of fifty-one who had absolutely no experience before I produced a 95,000-word manuscript, I’m often asked a question. “Was it a dream of yours to become a writer?” and I reply, “Yes, since I was a little girl.” But it wasn’t books […]
On Writing The Twenty: One Woman’s Trek Across Corsica
We were about to turn sixty, ready to retire. While friends celebrated professional achievements and milestone birthdays with a dinner or cruise, the prospect of leaving our careers and our fifties made my husband, Joe, and me restless for adventure. The backpacking-around-Europe days of our youth, remained our standard for travel, and so we opted […]
You Can’t Know It All: Why I Wrote the Book By Wanda Wallace
You Can’t Know It All: Why I Wrote the Book By Wanda Wallace I have coached many women who were seen as great, amazing contributors in the workplace – highly valued by clients, managers, peers – but who were not seen as the next leader of the group. On the one hand, these women were […]
Pandemics Make Strange Bedfellows By Jean Copeland
Pandemics Make Strange Bedfellows By Jean Copeland “There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe, “The Masque of the Red Death” Among all the insanity happening in the world during […]
Out of Ireland : Turning Family Lore into Fiction
Out of Ireland : Turning Family Lore into Fiction When my mother died at the age of ninety-nine, her memory gone, I had already begun a novel inspired by the life of her grandmother, an Irish Immigrant, named Ellen Hickey Sullivan Jewett. In the year before my mother’s death, I read to her the first […]
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