Author Archive: Women Writers Women Books
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What The Flying Trapeze Taught me About Reinventing Myself
Sheri Baxter’s path has taken her from Marine helicopter mechanic and door gunner to firefighter, aviation professional, flying trapeze coach and professional trapeze artist, and now memoirist. She spent more than 15 years training in circus arts, including a decade coaching flying trapeze, while building a career in aviation, education and public service. Her memoir, […]
What I Learned From a Pair of Two-Star Book Reviews by Nancy Chadwick
My memoir and two contemporary fiction books have been out in the world for a while now, and my once frequent checking of Amazon reviews has slowed. I’m still delighted to read the encouraging comments from readers as they trickle in—what character they were drawn to, whether a story resonated with them, or how the […]
You Are the Heroine You’ve Been Waiting For by Dale M. Kushner
I’m sitting at my desk in writing studio, my golden retriever, Maisie, curled at my feet. Outside, summer sunlight sifts through the leaves. A new wren family has moved into the birdhouse, the mother wren in a flurry of departures and returns, food for her nestlings in her beak. She reminds me of the helper […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: D.M. Pulley
Stone Mad by D.M. Pulley On the coldest of nights, you can hear a girl crying . . . Life fell apart for Mannie Wallace when her daughter’s best friend was abducted from right under Mannie’s nose. Six years later, Mannie is working as an engineer-turned-insurance investigator and barely holding the pieces of her family […]
The Women Who Go into the Woods By Cynthia Johnstone
Instagram. Television. Text messages. Doorbells announcing Amazon deliveries. Podcasts filling the silence as we cook dinner. We are surrounded by manufactured clutter: sounds, images, alerts, reminders, all competing for some small piece of our attention. Even silence has become something we hurry to fill. So, what happens when we step away from it all and […]
On Writing Pole Dancers at the Red Barn by Susan L. Katz
Many people have asked me why I’d write a collection of stories about pole dancers. Was I ever a pole dancer? The answer is no. I’ve never danced on a pole, yet my first story about a pole dancer simply came to me. I then had to ask myself, “Why?” I thought back to my […]
The Book My Mother Was Supposed to Write by Alicia Duncan
On October 29, 2021, my mother was released from an involuntary psychiatric hold in British Columbia. Four hours later, she died through Canada’s assisted-dying program, officially known as Medical Assistance in Dying. She was sixty-one, she was not terminally ill, and three days earlier, she had attempted suicide. In the years since, I have returned […]
Kent State and the Making of Alice Kaplan By Ellen Halter
As the official publication of my debut novel, All That I’m Asking, approached, I’ve thought about its sources of inspiration. Although set in 1968 to 69, the book’s focus on the social and political upheaval at the time was inspired by the protests against the Vietnam War. Weeks from graduation, I was an undergraduate senior […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Wendy Haller
Regret No More: A Flannigan Girls Story One mother. One daughter. A lifetime of things left unsaid. Becca Flannigan believed distance was the only way to survive her complicated relationship with her mother. But when Justine asks her to come home during her radiation treatments for breast cancer—and swear her to secrecy from her sisters—Becca […]
Interviewing My 16-Year-Old Self: Damn, That Girl Had Nerve by Deborah Samuel
Deborah Samuel is the author of Grace Through Fire: A Memoir of Murder, Tragedy, and Resilience If I could sit across from my sixteen-year-old self today, at fifty-eight, I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t be intimidated by me. She’d probably check me out, wonder how the hell she got that old, and then start asking questions […]
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