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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.
Feminist Author Duo Merges the Personal and Political in a Gripping Domestic Violence Novel
Feminist Author Duo Merges the Personal and Political in a Gripping Domestic Violence Novel Evelyn Anderton and Pearl Wolfe, co-authors of Walk Out the Door While working together in the 1990s at Womenspace, an agency working to end domestic violence, we learned why our women didn’t walk out the door from violent relationships sooner or […]
The Journey Not the Arrival Matters
The Journey Not the Arrival Matters I first encountered this quotation by TS Eliot as the title of Leonard Woolf’s autobiography. Naturally, I had to read Leonard Woolf. It was one way of connecting with his wife, whom I count as one of my favorite writers. It was only gradually that I came to understand […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Brieanna Wilkoff
Authors Interviewing Characters: Brieanna Wilkoff I’ll Be There for You Rae Ballester loves movie musicals and—thanks to her dad—’80s rock. Since he died a year ago, his favorite music helps keep his memory alive. Struggling to move on, Rae keeps her head down and earbuds in, but shunning the world has cost her even her […]
Alchemically Fusing Roots & Magick in My Chicana Girl on the Train RIVER WOMAN, RIVER DEMON
Alchemically Fusing Roots & Magick in My Chicana Girl on the Train RIVER WOMAN, RIVER DEMON Eva Santiago Moon is a budding Chicana bruja—whose bruja mother died in childbirth, so Eva was raised by her conservative and well-meaning sister Alba, who isn’t interested in their cultural roots of witchcraft but instead nurtures her family in […]
On Writing Peak Beyond Peak: Transcribing Isobel Wylie Hutchison’s Lost Essays
A collection of lost essays by one of Scotland’s most incredible yet forgotten women, Isobel Wylie Hutchison, has now been published in book form with a wonderful introduction and afterword by Hazel Buchan Cameron, the woman who spent eight years collecting and transcribing the work. This is a landmark moment in Scottish culture, history and women’s […]
Raising Awareness of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery through Fiction
Girl Out of Sight by psychological suspense author, Helen Matthews, is published this week by Darkstroke Books. Helen is an ambassador for the British anti-slavery charity, Unseen UK and has written about modern slavery and human trafficking in her fiction. She explains why she’s passionate about raising awareness of slavery-related crimes and why fiction has […]
Write What You Know? No, Write What You Love
Penny Haw Life is too short to peel an apple before biting into it. It’s too short to worry about whether your eyebrows are perfectly arched or your dance moves are weird. Life is also too short to write books you don’t love. Sure, it’s tempting to pursue other people’s ideas of what you should […]
My Writing Process By Barbara Rubin, author
My Writing Process By Barbara Rubin, author More Than You Can See “Write a book,” my friend told me. Impossible! I wasn’t a writer, or was I? But the seed was planted, and my mind began compiling ideas and ways to tell the story. Why was I thinking about doing it? I never wanted to […]
A forgotten dream realized: My path to writing The Antidotes: Pollution Solution
I am a dreamer by nature. As the daughter of Egyptian immigrant parents who happened to be good at math and science and as someone who wanted to help people, I decided in high school that I wanted to be a medical doctor in Africa. While an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins I discovered the field […]
Two Extraordinary Women Who Inspired One Woman’s War
Two Extraordinary Women Who Inspired One Woman’s War by Christine Wells I saw my first James Bond film at the age of seven. We were having a family holiday in Sydney, Australia, and Mum left my brother and me with Dad while she enjoyed a well-earned day to herself. Instead of taking us to the […]
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