Author Archive: Women Writers Women Books
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The Reason Behind “A Reason to Carry On”
The Reason Behind “A Reason to Carry On” Despite a voice from the Deep crying out “don’t do it”, I did. I followed the fun crowd to a roller skating rink and tried to emulate a young boy doing tricks. I wound up in hospital with a compound spiral fracture, in unfathomable pain, then onto […]
Life After Memoir: Puzzle Pieces, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, & Lavender Tea
Life After Memoir: Puzzle Pieces, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, & Lavender Tea Life After Memoir: Puzzles Pieces, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, & Lavender TeaYou open the box delicately, but confidently. You drop out the promised 1000 cardboard cutout pieces of colors, speculating their ultimate purpose. Turning each piece over, one by one, to their sole speck of […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Amanda Elliot
Amanda Elliot Interviews Julie Zimmerman from BEST SERVED HOT About BEST SERVED HOT Two restaurant critics learn their opposing tastes might make for a five-star relationship in the next foodie romantic comedy from the author of Sadie on a Plate. By day, Julie Zimmerman works as an executive assistant. After hours, she’s @JulieZeeEatsNYC, a social media […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Kate Thompson
Bestselling author Kate Thompson returns with The Little Wartime Library, a novel based on the true story of a forgotten little library in WW2. When German bombs crashed through its roof, Bethnal Green library moved underground, providing books – and escapism – for children during air raids. Kate brings the story to life by reimagining life […]
The Psychology of Personality – Bringing your Characters to Life
The Psychology of Personality – Bringing your Characters to Life When you meet someone for the first time you may notice certain things about them: how they look, how they speak, what they say. These are the things we see and hear that tell us something about the person and help us form an impression […]
Dana Goldstein: On Writing Memoir
On Writing Memoir Dana Goldstein The darkness is welcoming. The silence is broken by the ticking of the grandfather clock as the pendulum swings and by the dog snoring softly at my feet. It’s 5AM. I make a coffee, put on my frayed and faded hoodie, then settle in on the living room couch, laptop […]
Living Write
Living Write Melissa Giberson The pandemic was in its early stages; I was furloughed from work. With my excess time, I read books, watched Netflix, cleaned, caught up on scrapbooking, and revisited my old writing – stashed in a backpack in a closet and in electronic files in the deep recesses of my computer. In […]
A Palm Reader, A Dream, And Standing Naked
On a whim, I’d hired a palm reader as part of the evening’s joint birthday celebration for my husband and me. When she arrived, prim as a Midwest librarian, I lead her to the quiet seclusion of my bedroom which afforded her privacy. A line quickly formed outside the room. Barbie waited next to Lou […]
Edwardian Con Women by Laura Lee
Edwardian Con Women Laura Lee About ten years ago, while researching a book on Oscar Wilde, I stumbled upon the story of Maurice Schwabe, a member of the Wilde circle who went on to lead an extraordinary life of crime as part of a band of gentleman con artists who traveled the world cheating at […]
On Writing Humanizing the Remote Experience through Leadership and Coaching
The book, Humanizing the Remote Experience through Leadership and Coaching, is the product of a teacher without her classroom and a psychiatrist without her couch. We were mid-way through a global pandemic and several months into a total lockdown when we decided to write this book. Diane, a communication coach and university professor, was coaching […]
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