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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.
Susan Sands on her Publishing Journey
Hello, Women Writers! And thanks so much to Barbara for hosting me this month. Some of you might know me, but likely most don’t. My name is Susan Sands (real name), and I’ve had a five-book Alabama series published with the Tule Publishing Group. I’ve got four upcoming books this year and a new novella […]
My Gig As Knoxville Poet Laureate
My Gig As Knoxville Poet Laureate I was lucky! Within a few days of retiring from teaching at the University of Tennessee, I was named Knoxville Poet Laureate. So, even though I had been teaching at UT for 37 years, my transition was painless. Pre-pandemic, I was invited to speak at writing conferences and in […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Namrata Patel
Namrata Patel interviews Neha Patel from The Candid Life of Meena Dave About THE CANDID LIFE OF MEENA DAVE A woman embarks on an unexpected journey into her past in an engrossing novel about identity, family secrets, and rediscovering the need to belong. Meena Dave is a photojournalist and a nomad. She has no family, […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: B.L. Blanchard interviews Chibenashi
THE PEACEKEEPER Against the backdrop of a never-colonized North America, a broken Ojibwe detective embarks on an emotional and twisting journey toward solving two murders, rediscovering family, and finding himself. North America was never colonized. The United States and Canada don’t exist. The Great Lakes are surrounded by an independent Ojibwe nation. And in the […]
TOSCA LEE on writing THE PROGENY
THE PROGENY New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee brings a modern twist to an ancient mystery surrounding Elizabeth Bathory, the most notorious female serial killer of all time. Emily Jacobs is the descendant of a serial killer. Now, she’s become the hunted. She’s on a quest that will take her to the secret underground of […]
On Writing LEAPFROG: How to hold a civil conversation in an uncivil era
My writing has always begun in wanting to know, in wanting to better understand. In high school and college I had columns in the school newspaper entitled variations of C’est la vie, depending upon which language I was currently studying. I co-wrote my first published book, Stuttering, with my soon-to-be husband, then a professor of […]
‘Seeing’ Visible Signs
‘Seeing’ Visible Signs This has happened twice. In my mind’s eye, I see a scene: the people, the place, an event. Nothing more. A still life. It seems to work as a starter, similar to levain, a leavening agent made from a mixture of flour and water used to bake bread. The flour and water […]
How Writing About the End of the World Helped Me Find Hope
Erin Swan On April 21, 2014, I sat in the sunny window of a Brooklyn coffee shop and wrote the beginning of a story about a girl named Bea. The next day, I finished the draft. Usually, I toil and tinker, hem and haw, but this story emerged in a giddy rush. A few days […]
Falling Through the Net: A Foray into Fiction
Falling Through the Net: A Foray into Fiction Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. Virginia Woolf By Lisa Russ Spaar I think it’s worth saying at the outset that fiction isn’t the opposite of poetry. […]
The Survivors Who Inspired my Debut Novel
The Survivors Who Inspired my Debut Novel By: Nora Murphy While attending law school, I participated in two clinics through which I studied the issues facing survivors of intimate partner violence—also referred to domestic abuse or domestic violence. After graduating, I worked as a judicial law clerk for two years, before entering private practice—experiences which […]
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