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.
Why I Wanted to Write An Upside-Down Sky
Linda Dahl ‘s riveting travel novel invites readers to challenge assumptions, discover their true selves, and broaden their horizons… AN UPSIDE-DOWN SKY (April 19, She Writes Press) follows Lidia, a blocked artist in her 60s, who goes on a tour to Namyan (a fictional country partially based on Myanmar/Burma) once it opens after a long dictatorship. Not only does […]
HILDE ON THE RECORD: MEMOIR OF A KID CRIME REPORTER Excerpt
Hilde Kate Lysiak, American journalist and founder of the Orange Street News, has been profiled by the New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, NBC Today, the Washington Post and more. She’s interviewed former First Lady Michelle Obama for The National, is the youngest member of the Society of Professional Journalists, has a six-book series with […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: G.G. Kellner
HOPE, A HISTORY OF THE FUTURE (April 19, SparkPress) is the passion project of writer and artist G.G. Kellner and is truly unique as a philosophical cli-fi (climate fiction) dream of what could happen with our earth if we save it. In a literal and physical climate that is bogged down by hopelessness and worry, […]
Finding My Voice in Nineteenth-Century France
Finding My Voice in Nineteenth-Century France Laura Stanfill Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary, my debut novel, is forthcoming from Lanternfish Press in April 2022. I’ll be forty-six. It’s taken a long time to embrace my material and my voice; I probably needed these decades to acknowledge my neurodivergence and to recognize my way of […]
From New York to Rome: Authors in Conversation: Connie Hertzberg Mayo and Crystal King
From New York to Rome: An interview with authors Connie Hertzberg Mayo and Crystal King Crystal: We both write historical fiction. I do it because I love uncovering lost moments in time and trying to imagine the lives of people in those eras and those places. I was so drawn to Italy and I fell […]
Karen Hugg: On Writing
When I was a child in the 1970s, I felt like an outsider. While other kids had the usual set of two parents, I only had a mother. And among kids I knew whose parents had divorced, oftentimes the father was involved in their child’s life, albeit distantly. But for me, my father was permanently […]
To Market, To Market! By Barbara Kennard
In what ways are you, as a writer, also a seller? This question might sound odd especially if you rely solely on others to market your book. Of course writers need publicists to help get our work out into the world; however, by promoting our books we realize that we market too! I taught English […]
Artists in My Life: Process and Product
Margaret Randall Of the many books I have written in my 85 years, Artists in My Life may seem like a departure. It’s not. I have always had a profound relationship with visual artists. My mother was a sculptor and the original work of many artists hung on the walls of my childhood home. Visiting […]
Feast to Famine, and Famine to Feast, Writer Style
Five years ago, I was living what I will affectionately call “the writer high life.” I’d been in the business as a professional for a short time and felt like I was doing a good job of building my career and my backlist. With a decent helping of luck going my way, I saw no […]
On Growing Your Novel: Magical Gifts on Real-life Trees
The going always gets hard at some stage of writing a novel – at least, it always has for me. And then the main thing is not to give up. My new novel, The Red Children, out this April, is my seventeenth book and in a way the one I love best, partly because I’ve […]
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