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.
Writing When Hurt, Writing To Heal
It could have been the ideal conditions for writing non-stop: no running of errands with necessities delivered to the door, no interruption by visitors, no annoying events, simply solitude at home. For me and many others, however, the COVID pandemic shutdown didn’t work out that way. It was like a bad first draft which stumbles […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Sally Hanan
My Heart Went Walking by Sally Hanan (Fire Drinkers Publishing, hardback £20, paperback £11.99) is an Irish tale of love, loss and redemption. Sally Hanan’s sublime debut mixes the prose of Sue Monk Kidd with the dialogue of Maeve Binchy. With captivating warmth, she pulls us in to explore how it felt to live in […]
Cai Emmons: Time Out of Time
This piece first appeared on Medium Cai Emmons, on Time and the first anniversary of her ALS diagnosis When I was teaching college-age and graduate fiction writers, I liked to use an exercise called “Braiding Time” to encourage the students to think about the interior lives of their characters and getting closer to understanding their […]
WHAT INSPIRED THE BOOK BIBLE? by Susan Shapiro
Susan B. Shapiro is an award-winning Manhattan writing professor and The New York Times bestselling author of 10 books, including the acclaimed memoirs FIVE MEN WHO BROKE MY HEART, LIGHTING UP and ONLY AS GOOD AS YOUR WORD, the coauthored nonfiction books UNHOOKED and THE BOSNIA LIST, and the novel WHAT’S NEVER SAID. Her books […]
Why I Write Funny Mysteries
By Kelly Oliver Using Humor is Serious Business When I was in graduate school (a million years ago), a guy invited me over to his place for a dinner date and served Chardonnay and Captain Crunch cereal. To be fair, he was living on a grad student stipend and had to economize, and Captain Crunch […]
Interview with Emilya Naymark
A story that will keep you guessing until the very end, Emilya Naymark has given us another “captivating story that leads to an emotional but satisfying bittersweet ending.” Behind the Lie (Crooked Lane Books, Feb. 8, 2022) starts with a missing person, but also reveals the desperately true decisions women make for the sake of […]
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, […]
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