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.
For the Birds
For the Birds, by Claudia Hinz I became a birder out of desperation in the early days of the pandemic, on an afternoon when the hours felt both flabby and flimsy, so that I couldn’t tell you if it was one o’clock or almost dinner time. Tuesday or Thursday. Until that day, I’d always been […]
Writing and My Search for a Balance of East and West By Diane Dreher, author of The Tao of Inner Peace
Writing and My Search for a Balance of East and West By Diane Dreher, author of The Tao of Inner Peace Each of our lives tells a story with its own recurrent lessons. My story combines East and West in a personal quest for balance that led to my book, The Tao of Inner Peace. […]
LIKE ME, by Hayley Phelan, Excerpt
LIKE ME by Hayley Phelan A seductive psychological thriller about obsession, illusion, and female identity in the digital age. Though beautiful, cunning, and privileged, nineteen-year-old Mickey finds herself with a stalled modeling career, an escalating drinking problem, few friends, and next to nothing in the bank. To numb her growing despair, she spends her days […]
Here’s What My Savvy 24-year-old Protagonist Taught Me … By Lisa Barr
Here’s What My Savvy 24-year-old Protagonist Taught Me … By Lisa Barr Every author knows that putting out a new book into the world comes with a 24/7 “I’m-SO-Sick-of-Me” social media presence. I made a pact with myself this time around that I needed to do something meaningful to me personally to promote my third […]
The Story Behind the Story of Girl in Ice By Erica Ferencik
The Story Behind the Story of Girl in Ice By Erica Ferencik Like a lot of novelists, I write what I’d like to read, what I wish existed in the world but as far as I know, does not. Girl in Ice was inspired by a mingling of five fascinations: a scene from the original, 1931 […]
How a Song Became a Novel
By Jennifer Haupt The kernel of the idea for my novel began with iconic song lyrics: Come as you are, as you were As I want you to be As a friend, as a friend As an old enemy Nirvana’s powerful and haunting song “Come As You Are” has long been at the top of […]
Revising for Tone During Difficult Times
Revising for Tone During Difficult Times By Katherine Cowley I spent most of 2020 writing and revising my novel, The True Confessions of a London Spy. It was a difficult book to write for all the reasons you would expect…shutdowns, school closures, family worries, life upheavals, the rising pandemic death toll, and sickness spreading, spreading, spreading. Somehow, […]
Feminism and Domestic Space by Ariane Torres
My novel, We are the Kings, came together as a tangle of ideas not long after my grandmother died. Her death was sudden, a car accident, but that’s really all I know. I’ve sort of refused to learn more, mainly because it doesn’t really matter. I was lucky that I never saw her in decline. […]
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, […]
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