Author Archive: Women Writers Women Books
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How One Woman Overcame Pandemics, Mental Illness, Sexism, War, and Napoleon to Build a Champagne Empire
How One Woman Overcame Pandemics, Mental Illness, Sexism, War, and Napoleon to Build a Champagne Empire By Rebecca Rosenberg For centuries, women have faced the devastation of pandemics and roadblocks of sexist laws. Yet, one of them, the audacious and determined Barbe-Nicole Clicquot, found a way to build a champagne empire despite the hardships. In 1805, […]
Zero to Twenty: My Publishing Journey
Zero to Twenty It’s wonderful to have a dream. Unless, as happened to me, the dream becomes so precious you’re afraid to try make it come true in case it crashes to the ground and smashes into a million sad disappointed pieces. I’d wanted to write for so many years – started now and then, […]
My Roller Coaster Journey to Finding an Agent
By Sara Brunsvold Like many aspiring authors, I have dreamed of being a writer since childhood. In 2012, I began to seriously pursue authorhood, investing time and money into honing my skills and learning the industry, all with an eye toward building a sustainable career. A literary agent was a partner I saw as important […]
Writing What I Wish I Knew: Surviving and Thriving After an Abusive Relationship
My name is Dr. Amelia Kelley and I am a trauma-informed therapist and advocate for survivors of domestic violence and other forms of relationship trauma. With over fifteen years of experience as a therapist, I have been witness to stories from clients who overcome incredible trauma and various forms of abuse. Their stories have become […]
Unfinished Business
Cai Emmons on writing, life and living with ALS I am working as diligently as I can on a new novel, but novels cannot be rushed, and at the end of every work day, as I lay down the unfinished manuscript, a thought haunts me. What if I don’t have time to finish this novel […]
Where It All Began: My Southern Roots
Where It All Began: My Southern Roots As a country singer croons, “Blame it all on my roots…” He might as well add, especially in the South. From the time we are children in small towns across the south, we absorb our surroundings, family, and culture. Some of us lived in tumultuous times and apologized […]
Unapologetically Me: A Healing Writing Practice to Reconnect to Self & Own Your Story
Four years ago, when I lived in a palatial California basement apartment with French doors that opened up onto a lush garden with lemon, orange, and fig trees, I found myself lying face down on the earth, in mourning. My father, my number one fan of my writer Self, had died a few months earlier. […]
THE ART & CRAFTINESS OF CRITIQUE
THE ART & CRAFTINESS OF CRITIQUE By Lorraine Devon Wilke “I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.” ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart “The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism” ― Norman Vincent Peale Criticism. Getting it. Giving it. […]
Writing Serious Nonfiction Accessibly
Sydney Halpern, author of Dangerous Medicine: The Story behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis (Yale University Press, November 2021), reflects on how to present complex historical material to multiple audiences. When I began working on Dangerous Medicine, one of my goals was to turn thorny subject matter into a book valuable to scholars while also of […]
On Writing Memoir, by Mary Hollendoner
By Mary Hollendoner I always hated writing. English class was my least favorite subject at school – writing essays about obscure points of literature and having to hit a certain number of pages – none of it inspired me. So I never imagined that I’d write a book… but here I am! My book was […]
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