Author Archive: Women Writers Women Books
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Character interviews: Veronica Gutierrez interviews Yolanda Avila from AS YOU LOOK
Veronica Gutierrez interviews Yolanda Avila from AS YOU LOOK Debut author Veronica Gutierrez introduces us to Yolanda Avila, a Los Angeles private investigator struggling with the intersection of grief, guilt, and latent psychic tendencies following the death of her mother. Her struggle peaks when she must solve her godson’s kidnapping and find her wife’s stalker, […]
Reading With Rochelle Weinstein: March
Hello Readers and Friends, It’s been a strange time with the recent events in Ukraine. After battling an unavoidable COVID the last two years, it’s unsettling to watch a country torn apart in avoidable acts. One thing we can always count on though is the soothing power of a good […]
Why the NFL Draft Is Like Querying Your Novel
Why the NFL Draft Is Like Querying Your Novel What do the NFL Draft and querying your novel have in common? More than you might think. (For those not familiar with American football, NFL stands for the National Football League, the professional association for football in the US, and the annual Draft is the way […]
Always Ahead of her Time, Pauli Murray’s Time is Now
Always Ahead of her Time, Pauli Murray’s Time is Now by Simki Kuznick People often ask me how I learned about Pauli Murray. They wonder how a White woman came to be interested in an obscure African-American civil rights activist who is barely mentioned in the history books. It started when I traveled to Ghana […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Angela Petch
Italy, 1945. ‘Where am I?’ The young man wakes, bewildered. He sees olive trees against a bright blue sky. A soft voice soothes him. ‘We saw you fall from your plane. The parachute saved you.’ He remembers nothing of his life, or the war that has torn the world apart… but where does he belong? […]
Where the Heart is
In 2003 we uprooted our children and left England. Just for a year, four at the most, we said, as we packed our life into boxes, our children and cat into the car, and raced the setting sun as we drove west across the breadth of England, Wales, and onto the Ireland-bound ferry. We arrived […]
Making Connections in Writing
Making Connections in Writing ‘No man is an island,’ wrote John Donne. No woman writer is either, though it can certainly feel like it sometimes, after hours, days, weeks spent hunched over a work in progress. Not so much during the writing, perhaps, when you’re immersed in the world of the story, surrounded by characters, […]
Interview with Sarah Fay, author of PATHOLOGICAL
Over the course of thirty years, doctors diagnosed Sarah Fay with six different mental illnesses: anorexia, major depressive disorder (MDD), anxiety disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and bipolar disorder. PATHOLOGICAL is Fay’s gripping account of the factors that led to those diagnoses, the impact each had on her life, and the ways we […]
Excerpt from Darkness Was My Candle by Lora DeVore
Born into poverty and violence, Lora’s early life was one of extreme vulnerability. She was prostituted for the first time at the age of nine and suffered unspeakable treatment from those who should have protected her. Early trauma led to her institutionalization soon after she started college, an incarceration she would not have survived but […]
My Writing Process by Celine O’Donovan
It started with a gentle nudge but soon took on a life of its own…… By Celine O’Donovan These opening words from my new book, Gifts from the Devastation pretty much sum up how I started writing and how the process has evolved since then. Writing this book was the first time I ever consciously […]
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