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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.
8 Things I’ve Learned Since Becoming a Published Author
By Caroline Bishop In February 2021 my debut novel was published. Seeing THE OTHER DAUGHTER on bookshop shelves and in readers’ hands was the culmination of a long-held dream for me. It was also a highlight of a rollercoaster ride full of brilliant highs, a few pandemic-related lows and several spells of trundling along wondering […]
Alana Quintana Albertson: Authors Interviewing Characters
Character Interview Ramón and Julieta is a fun, frothy romance full of family, culture, and tacos which celebrates Latine joy. Julieta Campos is a top chef at Las Pescas, her acclaimed sea-to-table taquería in her beloved community of Barrio Logan. Ramón Montez has recently been anointed People en Español’s most eligible bachelor. A ruthless businessman […]
Inspiration through Memoir and Self Help
Most of us carry stories from our past; some carry weeping wounds. Our tales can lift us up or anchor us in the depths of grief or rage. They can inspire or defeat us—and influence readers around the world. The story I carried, my dream since age fifteen, was to find an elusive waterfall I […]
Telling Family Secrets
Telling Family Secrets Have you ever peeked into the intimate lives of your parents? In May of 2006, three years after my father died, my mom insisted that I take home boxes full of letters, personal diaries, journals, newspaper articles, and books written by and/or about my parents, who were Mennonite medical missionaries in Paraguay, […]
Writing Cookesville USA
I was born and lived the first twelve years of my life in a town called Owensboro, in northwestern Kentucky, on the Ohio River. My family and I moved to Orange County, California when I was twelve, where I lived until I married at the too-young age of nineteen. From there, I moved to San […]
Writing THE LOBOTOMIST’S WIFE: A Braid of Facts and Imagination
Writing is my second act. Almost a decade ago, after I gave up my full-time corporate job to take care of my two young children, I found myself searching for something “of my own” outside of the home. I’ve always liked to write but hadn’t considered a novel until I took a beginner novel workshop […]
Keeping Your Series’ Setting and Secondary Characters Fresh
Keeping Your Series’ Setting and Secondary Characters Fresh Readers fall in love with settings and secondary characters, anxiously awaiting the next story because it means another trip to a place we all want to live or at least visit. Series are a special kind of escape for readers and writers. For me, as author, the […]
Writing Letters to Lost Loved Ones
Writing Letters to Lost Loved Ones As a child, I was fascinated by the “dead letter office,” picturing misaddressed mail piling up in a room. Thinking someone should read all that forsaken mail—surely unopened letters were lonely—I wondered if the post office took volunteers. My romantic notions about “dead letters” took a turn in my […]
Heart Medicine: Freedom from Painful Patterns is Possible!
Radhule Weininger on writing her book Heart Medicine: How to Stop Painful Patterns and Find Peace and Freedom—at Last by Radhule Weininger, MD, PHD, featuring forewords by H.H. the Dalai Lama and Joanna Macy — At 5:00 a.m. one morning fifteen years ago, I rolled uncomfortably from one side of my bed to the other, glancing anxiously toward the window, […]
How History Inspired THE SECRETS ACT Alison Weatherby
How History Inspired THE SECRETS ACT Alison Weatherby When I visited Bletchley Park with my family, I was supposed to be taking a much-needed break from writing. I’d recently broken up with my US literary agent and had put my YA mystery in a virtual drawer. It was also a tense time for women, as […]
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