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.
Authors Interviewing Characters: Marcy McCreary Interviews The Ford Family
The Murder of Madison Garcia is a contemporary police procedural that pairs a by-the-book female detective with her by-the-gut father (a retired detective) and takes place in the Catskills region of New York—The Borscht Belt—where the old storied hotels once dotted the landscape. It is the second book in a three-book standalone series, “The Ford Family […]
FICTION AS A CULINARY ART By Christina Hamlett
FICTION AS A CULINARY ART By Christina Hamlett I was in elementary school when I first realized there was a correlation between cooking and my favorite hobby—reading. I couldn’t really have told you who was bringing all these wonderful tomes to the neighborhood bookmobile every week; like meals at our house, they simply appeared when […]
The Inspiration for Daughter Dalloway
The Inspiration for Daughter Dalloway By Emily France In 2018, I came across an article about Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. I had not read the book since college, so I picked it up again. As I read, I noticed a character I had never seen before: Mrs. Dalloway’s only child, Elizabeth. She plays the […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: KRISTINA GORCHEVA-NEWBERRY IN CONVERSATION WITH ANYA RANEVA: THE ORCHARD
KRISTINA GORCHEVA-NEWBERRY IN CONVERSATION WITH ANYA RANEVA: THE ORCHARD, Author/Character Interview About THE ORCHARD Four teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union—but not all of them will live to see the new world arrive in this powerful debut novel, loosely based on Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. “Spectacular . . . intensely […]
Character Interview: Kate Mueser interviews Sarah Johnson of The Girl with Twenty Fingers
Character Interview: Kate Mueser interviews Sarah Johnson of The Girl with Twenty Fingers Sarah Johnson’s hope of becoming a concert pianist was shattered when she bombed an important performance of a Mozart concerto. Now in Munich, she feels like an imposter in her job as a food magazine editor. A chance encounter in a music […]
How my Apparel Sales Career led to a Writing gig
I had always envisioned a career as a journalist, but life had other plans. Right after my college graduation, our family had an emergency while my apparel sales rep dad was at a trade show in Atlanta. When no one from his companies could cover for him so he could attend to the emergency, dad […]
From Book to Hallmark Movie: 8 Things You Didn’t Know
From Book to Hallmark Movie: 8 Things You Didn’t Know by Denise Hunter Most novelists dream of having one of their books adapted into a movie. I know I did. And somehow I’ve been blessed to have three Hallmark movie adaptations. (The Convenient Groom, A December Bride, and The Goodbye Bride). When my first movie […]
Michelle Cruz: On Writing
If I’m honest, it’s Tom Clancy and John Grisham’s faults. Although they weren’t exactly approved authors in my ultra-conservative upbringing, at least they weren’t forbidden. But there were few women, and—especially in Tom Clancy’s case—they were tangential to the plot, barely mentioned, and often more of a footnote. So in all the audacity of my […]
The Book of Nature: An Offhand Beginning
The Book of Nature: An Offhand Beginning by Barbara Mahany Every book has its backstory, and my most recent, The Book of Nature: The Astonishing Beauty of God’s First Sacred Text (Broadleaf Books, March 21, 2023), is one that began in the unlikeliest of ways. There I was, a half-hour deep into a radio talk […]
High Tide in the Redwoods: Memoir, Migration and This Wilderness in My Blood
High Tide in the Redwoods: Memoir, Migration and This Wilderness in My Blood By Terra Trevor My bags were packed, boxes stacked, and escrow was closing. We were downsizing, and moving from the city where we lived for the past forty-three years. We didn’t have a new house to move into, not yet. While we […]
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