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.
The Making of The Silent Count, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Making of The Silent Count, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb It is a truth universally acknowledged by the how-to-write-a-novel industrial complex that a thriller in want of a good plot must be in possession of a ticking time bomb. I learned this the hard way while trying to write […]
Tips for Excellent Twists
Tips for Excellent Twists As readers, we crave that jaw-dropping feeling that leaves us slightly stunned, with the book open in our lap as we process the unexpected. Wouldn’t it be great if writing twists were as easy and enjoyable as reading them? To understand what makes an effective plot twist, you have to know […]
A Writer’s Journey By Susan Specht Oram
A Writer’s Journey: How I ended up being published By Susan Specht Oram In the fourth grade, when I wanted to be an author, my maternal grandmother, Gago, paid me one-dollar for every story I wrote. One day I handed in a tale about Caroline, who creeps into an attic and discovers a bloody rope […]
Kaira Rouda: On Writing The Widow
How a major life change led to a novel, becoming a docent at The Library of Congress, and joining a very exclusive club By Kaira Rouda Approximately 12,000 Americans have served in Congress…from the beginning of our country’s founding. When my husband became one of them, I found myself immersed in a world of history, […]
An Unconventional Form: On Writing The Fool and the Magician
An Unconventional Form: On Writing The Fool and the Magician By Angela Lam I wrote my first memoir about growing up Chinese American in a linear fashion, selecting that liminal space between childhood and adolescence to explore my relationship with my father, a man of many faces, a man who I sometimes hated and sometimes […]
Authors Interiewing Characters: Andrea J. Stein
What would you do if your ex brought your break-up to the big screen? That’s the question Callie Dressler, the main character of women’s fiction debut novel TYPECAST, has to ask herself. Callie Dressler thought she’d put her past where it belonged—behind her. But when her ex-boyfriend brings their breakup to the big screen, she […]
The True to Life Inspirations for my Novel, Terra Nova
The True to Life Inspirations for my Novel, Terra Nova By Henriette Lazaridis My favorite stories in childhood were adventure tales like Incredible Journey or Banner in the Sky. I always liked to imagine myself as an explorer, climbing and hiking in my small world of woods and snow and swamps. When, at age seven, […]
On Writing The Girl
Since I left my corporate job in 2019 to pursue my writing dreams, a term has cropped up again and again that has always irked me when I’ve had to describe some of my short stories: the “unlikeable female character.” I know it started as a term to describe a female character who went against […]
Archery and Writing
I am like an arrow shot from a bow. Where the wind guides me, my heart follows. –Stephanie Cotta I breathe in and out, gripping my bow as I snatch an arrow from my quiver nestled against my back. Nocking the arrow, I adjust my footing in the grass, and my eyes fix on the […]
How Conversations Inspire Writing
By Kelly Ohlert, author of To Get To The Other Side One gorgeous sunny day, I took a walk on my lunch break. Thanks to my incredibly low attention span, or rather, the low attention span of humans in general these days (thanks technology), I of course couldn’t just walk and enjoy the sunshine. I […]
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