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.
Interview with Rhys Bowen
Rhys Bowen is the New York Times bestselling author of more than forty novels. Her latest novel, WHERE THE SKY BEGINS is just out! We are delighted to feature this interview with Rhys. Tell us about your beginning, where are you from? I was born in Bath, England, educated at London University and then worked in […]
My Path to Writing My Debut Memoir, Accidental Sisters
Katherine Linn Caire I have always loved writing… in my English and Lit classes growing up, in my own journals, actually, anywhere the opportunity presented itself. My grandmother instilled in me an intense love of the written letter, and to this day, I find its genuine authenticity to always trump an email, text, or brief […]
Why I Wrote A Book about Helping My Husband Die
Why I Wrote A Book about Helping My Husband Die By Joanne Tubbs Kelly When interviewers ask me what inspired me to write about my experience helping my husband die using Colorado’s End-of-Life Options Act, I have an easy answer: I have always depended on books to give me insight into whatever new situation I […]
How to Get Your Medical References Right by Adele Holmes M.D.
How to Get Your Medical References Right Readers have medical knowledge from their own forays into the world of illness. Medical professionals are even more savvy to the peculiarities of medicine. Every single person who picks up your writing will have some first-hand experience with drugs, disease, tests, and such. It only takes one error, […]
Break a Leg to Become a Writer by Aga Lesiewicz
Break a Leg to Become a Writer by Aga Lesiewicz As my literary hero Margaret Atwood said: ‘You become a writer by writing.” This is absolutely true, there is no other way. But life can make it difficult: the job, the family, the kids, the never-ending litany of everyday chores. So, you put it off: […]
Writing Romance When the World is Burning
Writing Romance When the World is Burning By Jo McNally, author of When Sparks Fly If you’re looking for a one-size-fits-all solution for writing through chaos, I’ll let you know right now it doesn’t exist, in this article or anywhere else. Mainly because each of us is in our own unique chaos, which seems to […]
One Writer’s Beginnings: The Bitter Gift of Trauma, by Barbara Quick
“For any novel—or any poem, for that matter—to really speak to readers, there has to be emotional juice there for the writer.” by Barbara Quick I grew up in Los Angeles in the 1950s and ‘60s. My father was an extremely sensitive, artistic, and intelligent man who, from, the get-go in his marriage with my […]
HALF THE WORK, TWICE THE FUN? What You Need To Know About Collaborating
HALF THE WORK, TWICE THE FUN? (What You Need To Know About Collaborating) By Christina Hamlett “Let’s get the kids together and put on a show in the old barn!” This plucky trope emerged in the 1930s movies of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. To this day, it perpetuates the myth that any disparate group […]
Things You Didn’t Know About Writing What We Know: Louisa Morgan
Writing What We Know The oldest bit of writing advice I know of is to “write what you know.” It’s still good advice, though a bit long in the tooth! It will serve you best if you understand what it is you know that will interest readers. It’s important to be aware that what may […]
Reading With Rochelle Weinstein: August
Hello, Readers & Friends! July was a fantastic month for books—I feel as though I say that every month, but I’m amazed every time I finish a wonderful story and the amount of talent out there. Here are my latest reads as well as this August’s picks featured on NBC 6 in The Mix: The […]
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