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 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 […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Jane Bennett Munro
“The Twelve Murders of Christmas: A Toni Day Mystery” by Jane Bennett Munro follows pathologist and amateur sleuth Toni Day as she finds herself at the center of a hunt for a vindictive criminal who sends her hints to his next victims through holiday cards containing macabre renditions of “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” After […]
Interview with Zvezdana Rashkovich
Zvezdana Rashkovich is a Pushcart Prize nominated author, poet, meditation teacher, and writing mentor. Her culturally diverse background has made her inquisitive about stories and the hero/heroine myths that connect us all. We are delighted to feature this interview with her! Thank you so much for joining us on WWWB, Zvezdana! Thank YOU, for your […]
Writing Together: Elise Brenner and Nancy Spatz
On the writing process for Reiki: A Self-Practice to Live in Peace with Self and Others Before we met, we were each separately benefiting from our practice of self-Reiki healing, meditation, self-inquiry, and reflection. We were also both envisioning pathways of presenting self-Reiki practice as a mainstream practice for everyone and anyone—all of us with challenges […]
The World Through Your Eyes: A Journey Of Self-Discovery Through Love
In her debut novel, released on 1 May 2022 by Guernica Editions and set between the UK, Italy, and the Middle East, UK-based journalist, writer, and gender equality advocate Valeria Camerino aims to bridge the gap between different cultures through the universal language of love. “We are all just humans trying to figure out life,” […]
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