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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.
Authors Interviewing Characters: Ciera Horton McElroy
Authors Interviewing Characters: Ciera Horton McElroy About Atomic Family: It’s November 1, 1961, in a small town in South Carolina, and nuclear war is coming. Ten-year-old Wilson Porter believes this with every fiber of his being. He prowls his neighborhood for Communists and studies fallout pamphlets and the habits of his father, a scientist at […]
Writing From the Heart
Writing From the Heart Donna Norman-Carbone When my close friends read an early copy of my debut novel, All That is Sacred, which releases in spring 2023, they asked, “Which character are you?” I chuckled. While fiction writers draw from their own experiences all the time (some more consciously than others or, for some books, […]
Finding Marvelous
In early 2020, I found Pedro Gonzales, the Wild Man of Tenerife. I was working with a friend in a café, and there he was, waiting—a snippet below one result from my Google search. The deadline for my second book’s edits loomed, and I’d been verifying a stray fact; what I found by chance instead […]
Character Interview: Diane Marie Brown interviews Willow Montrose of Black Candle Women
Character Interview: Diane Marie Brown interviews Willow Montrose of Black Candle Women About BLACK CANDLE WOMEN “Propulsive and poignant, Black Candle Women concocts an intoxicating potion of warmth, wisdom, and wonder.” —Ava DuVernay A warm and wry family drama with a magical twist about four generations of Black women, a family curse, and one very complicated year of […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Kimberly Brock
Kimberly Brock interviews Pennilyn Young from THE LOST BOOK OF ELEANOR DARE about THE LOST BOOK OF ELEANOR DARE Now available in trade paper—just in time for women’s history month—SIBA bestseller The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare explores the meaning of women’s history and the sacrifices every mother makes for her daughter. What happened to the Lost […]
Writing Action-Adventure for Women By Kerry Chaput
Writing Action-Adventure for Women By Kerry Chaput Unexpected female main characters have always held a particular fascination for me. I recently watched Enola Holmes with my daughters, and it fed my soul to see a young woman as a smart, resourceful fighter. and not a helpless creature incapable of saving others. Women can be fierce, […]
PERICLES AND ASPASIA: A Story of Ancient Greece by Yvonne Korshak
PERICLES AND ASPASIA: A Story of Ancient Greece by Yvonne Korshak From the Author and Historian—Inspirations for Writing Pericles and Aspasia Someone recently asked me, “Since you’ve been a non-fiction author in the past, what compelled you to write fiction?” My answer is that I was not compelled to write fiction—I was compelled to write this […]
Surviving the Long Haul: Negotiating the Challenges of Traditional Publication
Surviving the Long Haul: Negotiating the Challenges of Traditional Publication Someone I know converted traditional publication into a bingo as a joke, and posted it on our author group. It was for our amusement, but the laughs mostly came from the fact that all of us had been in one of those situations at some […]
Building Confidence One Spicy Romance Book At A Time
Building Confidence One Spicy Romance Book At A Time I’ve always found it easier to write fiction, rather than talk about myself. It’s a problem many authors have, which is probably why marketing can be so difficult. But back in 2018 I started a blog at my publisher’s suggestion, and over time it’s become easier […]
The Writing on the Wall
The Writing on the Wall One writer’s off-road trek from tiny opus to published novel Some people know exactly what they want to be when they grow up. Not me. I wanted to be a jockey (too tall). A singer (stage fright and no musical aptitude). And an astronomer (let’s be real, the stars are […]
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