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.
On Writing Divine Vintage
The book of my heart, Divine Vintage, evolved from an homage to the beauty of vintage fashion to encompass gratitude to the Indiana county I call home. I set my debut novel in a semi-fictionalized version of our largest town, Michigan City, which borders majestic Lake Michigan. Write what you know, to the purest degree. […]
Walk Like a Man
Walk Like a Man By Lorena Hughes What do George Sand, George Eliot, and James Barry have in common? Aside from the fact that they were all successful in their fields, they were all women. The author known as George Sand was, in fact, a French baroness who defied all conventions not only by separating […]
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, […]
140 Miles of Life: A Remarkable Journey to Self- Acceptance and Love: Excerpt
By Veronica Carrera Author of 140 Miles of Life: A Remarkable Journey to Self- Acceptance and Love Veronica Carrera holds a B.A. in French from Brigham Young University and an M.B.A. from Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, where she was honored as “The 2015 Best Executive EMBA.” She recently completed the Inner M.B.A. (conscious […]
The Stories Behind the Story: How The Porcelain Doll Became a Novel About Fairy Tales, Epic Love, and Yes, Russian Dolls (But Not That Kind)
By Kristen Loesch When I was a kid in the 1990s, my father, who moonlighted as a martial artist, began to train with elements of the Russian military in Moscow. He would often be away for months, returning with fascinating trinkets and stories that made this faraway country seem like a fairy tale. I don’t […]
A Funny Thing Happened While Writing This Story!
A Funny Thing Happened While Writing This Story! Have you grown up in the shroud of family mysteries, like me, and never expected to see the proverbial light? Or, if by chance you fall into the category as my husband who can trace his heritage back to the pre-American Revolutionary days, you might still be […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Eve Smith and Off Target
An unthinkable decision A deadly mistake When a one-night stand leads to a long-desired pregnancy, Susan will do anything to ensure her husband won’t find out … including the unthinkable. But when something horrendous is unleashed around the globe, her secret isn’t the only thing that is no longer safe… In an all-too-possible near future, […]
How a Message from the Past Became my Muse
by Amanda Geard High in the beams of the derelict Georgian house my husband and I renovated in southwest Ireland we discovered a hidden message – obscured by lime and horse hair – left by a long-dead carpenter. When this comes down, pray for me. Tim O’Shea, 1911. It was 2018, and we took that […]
Rich Inspiration for a Swiss Story
By Clare O’Dea Imagine if you could speak to a time traveller? Well, you can. If you want to know what it was like to live in 1950s Switzerland, as I did, you can ask the people who were there. It’s wonderful. Always a compulsive story collector, I never miss a chance to find out […]
The Question of Inspiration
For years I told myself that while I could probably write that novel, I would never be able to think up any ideas. I loved writing, I loved blogging, I was good at it – but fiction? That just seemed a scary step too far. In the end, a conversation with a friend finally pushed […]
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