Author Archive: Women Writers Women Books
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Inspiration Anywhere
Inspiration Anywhere By Kelly Sokol I first met Marleigh, the protagonist of BREACH in a group writing roundtable at The Muse Writers Center. I was taking a class called “Write Now,” in which we hand wrote timed responses to cues provided by the inimitable Janine Latus (this woman can pull creativity from a floor tile). […]
RBG A to Z: The Life of an Icon from ACLU to Gen Z: Excerpt
Ruth Bader Ginsberg is a feminist icon, liberal superhero, and trailblazer. RBG A to Z: The Life of an Icon from ACLU to Gen Z by Jo Stewart provides a comprehensive understanding of the incredible life of RBG. The book covers her humble beginnings in Brooklyn to her days at Harvard Law School in the Supreme Court. […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Robin Farrar Maass
Authors Interviewing Characters: Robin Farrar Maass The Walled Garden is an academic mystery novel about an American grad student who comes to England to finish her doctoral dissertation about an English garden writer and soon finds herself on the trail of a decades-old mystery, in a fight to save the writer’s historic gardens, and in […]
Mental Health Awareness Month: Reading List
According to Mental Health America, “19.86% of adults are experiencing a mental illness,” which is “equivalent to nearly 50 million Americans,” and “15.08% of youth (age 12-17) report suffering from at least one major depressive episode (MDE) in the past year.” These figures refer to reported cases, and mental health professionals believe that the true […]
Bone Necklace by Julia Sullivan: Excerpt
Bone Necklace by Julia Sullivan Bone Necklace is inspired by the true story of a small band of Native American warriors who, in 1877, held off four converging armies for four months while their families escaped to Canada. In addition to an Idaho militiaman and a Nez Perce warrior, the narrators include an English painter […]
Inspiration Behind THE MIDNIGHT HOUSE
Amanda Geard High in the beams of the derelict Georgian house my husband and I renovated in southwest Ireland we discovered a hidden message – obscured by lime and horse hair – left by a long-dead carpenter. When this comes down, pray for me. Tim O’Shea, 1911. It was 2018, and we took that slip […]
Avoiding Claustrophobia on the Page: Letting Some air into a First-Person Narrative
I’d like to say that I deliberately chose first-person narration for my new novel In the Lonely Backwater, that this was a craft decision made with writerly forethought. After all, the book is both a psychological exploration and a mystery, in which clues are unfolded and the reader moves toward knowledge step by step alongside […]
Writing my “pandemic novel” By Kim Hooper
By Kim Hooper In those early months of the pandemic, it made no sense to write. There were more limitations on my time than ever before. It was ridiculous to even consider. And, yet, I felt I had to write, a screaming ache within, a primal need to escape into a world of my own […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Connie Berry
What happens when you mix a suspenseful & elegant mystery set in Victorian England with plenty of antiques, a loveable amateur sleuth, a touch of romance, and an incredibly dark secret? You get the latest book by Connie Berry titled The Shadow of Memory The Shadow of Memory follows Kate Hamilton as she makes a shocking connection between a sixty-year-old murder and the […]
On Writing You’ll Forget This Ever Happened: Secrets, Shame, and Adoption in the 1960s
Laura L. Engel – You’ll Forget This Ever Happened: Secrets, Shame, and Adoption in the 1960s. If you had told me years ago that at the age of seventy-three years old, I would be publishing a memoir about the worst year of my life I probably wouldn’t have believed you. For my entire adult life, […]
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