Author Archive: Women Writers Women Books
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The Origin Story: Untangling Your Marriage, A Guide to Collaborative Divorce, by Nanci A. Smith
The Origin Story: Untangling Your Marriage, A Guide to Collaborative Divorce, by Nanci A. Smith I love to write. I also love helping people through their divorce process. In 2005, I was introduced to the concept of Collaborative Divorce, an interdisciplinary, voluntary, out of court divorce settlement process. I was attracted to the concept of […]
READING WITH ROCHELLE WEINSTEIN: DECEMBER
Hello Readers & Friends, I hope you’re enjoying the holidays with loved ones and a good book! As we head into 2023, here are some recent reads to add to your TBR. The Vibrant Years, Sonali Dev, eBook This was one of my featured NBC 6 Picks for December. Three fiery women—all at different stages […]
Gifts from Fellow Writers Lift Author’s Spirit During the Holidays
Women Writers, Women’s Books post by Kim Cano: Last Christmas, my plans consisted of one thing: getting a mastectomy. I’d been diagnosed with the most aggressive form of breast cancer earlier in the year and had recently completed sixteen rounds of chemotherapy. The surgery had to be done four to six weeks after chemo ended, […]
A WRITERLY ADVENTURE By Rachel Dacus
A WRITERLY ADVENTURE By Rachel Dacus Writers are always seeking time and space in which to create. We go to writers’ retreats to step away from our routines, but the last place I expected to gain time and inspiration was in a hospital bed. One day, while I was talking to a friend, the left […]
Inspiration from the Past
Let me introduce myself. My name is Jody Herpin and I’m the author of my first published novel, Relative Consequences, released on March 12, 2022. I wrote another novel, Weather Permitting, but decided not to publish it at that time. I live in Metro Atlanta with my husband, Mike, and our Mini-Aussie, Bella. I enjoy […]
The Long Night and the Golden Sun: Behind Saturnalia
The Long Night and the Golden Sun: Behind Saturnalia by Stephanie Feldman In 2017, I attended a Halloween performance of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death at the Mütter Museum, Philadelphia’s famous exhibit of medical oddities. It felt like the end of the world, then, or at least the world as I’d […]
Crime vs. Feel-Good Fiction
Crime vs. Feel-Good Fiction “Write what you know” wasn’t a concept in my life when I was a child. I was in the Brownie Guides, about to start working on my first ever Brownie badge – the Writers’ Badge, the only one that didn’t look scarily impossible to my seven-year-old self. I had to write […]
On Writing “Choosing Survival: How I Endured a Brutal Attack and a Lifetime of Trauma through the Power of Action, Choice, and Self-Expression.”
On Writing “Choosing Survival: How I Endured a Brutal Attack and a Lifetime of Trauma through the Power of Action, Choice, and Self-Expression.” By Lynn F Forney We all have a story to tell, for that I am certain. Mine began as a somewhat flippant comment when I would start to explain the details of […]
How the End of Roe v. Wade Convinced Me to Share My Feminist Memoir
How the end of Roe v. Wade convinced me to share my feminist memoir Fran Abrams I Rode the Second Wave: A Feminist Memoir is a memoir in poetry of my life growing up during the second wave of feminism. The second wave, begun in the 1960s, focused on equal opportunities, equal jobs, and equal pay. […]
ALL WRITERS ARE SPIES: by Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop
ALL WRITERS ARE SPIES: by Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop I didn’t read Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh until I was trying to land a job as an editorial assistant in the children’s book department at Harper and Row Publishers. I read my way through every novel they’d published in the previous twenty years. Harriet was […]
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