Author Archive: Women Writers Women Books
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Author Interviewing Characters Lyn Liao Butler interviews Angela from RED THREAD OF FATE
Author Interviewing Characters Lyn Liao Butler interviews Angela from RED THREAD OF FATE In the wake of a tragedy and fueled by guilt from a secret she’s kept for years, a woman discovers how delicate the thread that binds family is in this powerful novel by Lyn Liao Butler. Two days before Tam and Tony […]
Interview with Rachel Thomspon
Rachel Thompson is the author of seven books, including the award-winning, best-selling Broken Places (one of IndieReader’s “Best of 2015” top books) and the bestselling, multi-award-winning Broken Pieces (as well as two additional humor books, A Walk In The Snark and Mancode: Exposed) and two business books, including her bestselling “Great On Kindle” Pick The BadRedheadMedia 30-Day Book Marketing Challenge. She released Broken People in Fall 2020. She […]
Rising Above the Stories we Carry—A Memoir’s 12,000+ nautical-mile journey
Rising Above the Stories we Carry—A Memoir’s 12,000+ nautical-mile journey By Heidi Love Art by Linden O’Ryan Authors of Knowing Acts—Engage in Healing It is a vision of paradise and the promise of escape. Verdant peaks rise to meet a tropical sun. Streams of water surge over a fissure in a sheer cliff, disappearing in […]
Bryn Turnbull: On Fountainpens
Recently, I attended an educational seminar about the merits of social media. Having some proficiency in the use of Instagram, I decided to attend in the hopes of brushing up my skills – however, what followed was an hour-long confirmation of my own obsolescence. “It’s easy!” the moderator said while discussing the difference between Instagram […]
From Book to Podcast: Creative Story-Sharing Strategies
FIND YOUR WAY: CREATIVE STORY-SHARING STRATEGIES CAN LEAD TO PUBLICATION My novel, Messenger, was making the rounds at traditional publishing houses in late 2019, getting reads but no takers, and then covid hit. I knew as a debut novelist with no established audience I had to find another way. Messenger tells the story of a […]
HOW TO WRITE YOURSELF CRAZY: Dual Timelines . . . or Split Personalities?
HOW TO WRITE YOURSELF CRAZY: Dual Timelines . . . or Split Personalities? By Suzette D. Harrison, author of The Dust Bowl Orphans Listen! I love writing. It’s one of my divine purposes and passions. Writing is the one thing I’d do even if I wasn’t paid to. Let’s be clear: I want to be […]
Unstuck: Feedback That Stops You Cold By Martha Conway
This blog series, Unstuck, explores some of the ways fiction writers find themselves stuck and offers tips from successful writers for getting unstuck. Unstuck is a six-month series published the first Monday of the month. Read the previous installments: WRITING THE BEGINNING OVER AND OVER UNSTUCK STUCK IN THE SQUISHY MIDDLE “Here’s what I would do instead …” […]
Integrating my Author and Therapist Selves
Integrating my Author and Therapist Selves Lisa Williamson Rosenberg My father took my aspirations of being a novelist seriously from the start. His advice? “Get your first four chapters in, get your advance, and get to work.” Which was the way of the publishing world when he was chief art director of Viking Press back […]
Bobbie Jean Huff: On Writing
Bobbie Jean Huff There are a host of challenges that face every writer, and as a debut novelist I faced some difficult ones with The Ones We Keep, published by Sourcebooks in January 2022. The book is about a woman, Olivia, who after one of her children has died, decides to walk away from her […]
2022 Winter Must-Reads
Let’s be honest, winter is the one time of year where we all want to be trapped inside, and there’s no better way to enjoy that then to dive into a good book. If you can’t decide what’s next on your TBR we’ve put together a list of some of this cozy-season’s most intriguing reads. […]
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