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.
Authors Interviewing Characters: Kimberly Belle
About My Darling Husband Jade and Cam Lasky are by all accounts a happily married couple, with two adorable kids, a spacious home, and a rapidly growing restaurant business. But their world is tipped upside down when Jade is confronted by a masked home invader. As Cam scrambles to gather the ransom money, Jade starts […]
Not So Represented
Not So Represented By Mansi Shah It wasn’t until the age of 40 that I was able to read a novel about a Gujarati family, and that lack of representation left a deep impression on my soul. I grew up with a love of reading, often reading two books a day during my summer holidays […]
When an Idea “Cuts in Line”
When an Idea “Cuts in Line” By Dallas Woodburn In 2017, my goal was to finish a novel manuscript. At the time, the Word document on my computer contained nothing more than a title, a handful of scenes, and a burgeoning sense of great possibility. The idea for my young adult novel The Best Week That […]
Here’s to Prospiring in 2022!
Let’s do away with procrastinating by bringing back the verb prospire in 2022! Barbara Bos is WWWB’s Managing Editor. She lives in a tiny village in Galicia, Spain. I’m standing in my neighbors’ kitchen, staring at the views over the hills, thinking about Village Eldest, who used to live here. My neighbors are a lovely young couple, […]
Releasing Humanity’s Grace: Creating Stories, Selecting Genre
I was recently asked which genre I prefer to write. My answer? Memoir when writing memoir, fiction while writing fiction, non-fiction in the midst of blogging, and now? Crafting the linked short stories that comprise Humanity’s Grace. While I may never develop full expertise in any single genre, unlike other writers who find themselves solidly […]
Rochelle Weinstein: Looking Back Reads January 2022
Welcome 2022! I hope you enjoyed your holiday surrounded by those you love…with lots of books! For many, the new year is a time for making resolutions and goals. For me, it’s a time for looking back and reflecting on where I’ve been (which ultimately gets me to where I’m going). In that vein, I’m […]
Writing from the Heart
Writing from the Heart (Meditative Writing-Writing to Heal) By Zvezdana Rashkovich Writing from the Heart Meditative writing workshops came about after I trained as a meditation teacher and studied Journal therapy. I also graduated with that elusive Creative Writing degree at the age of 50. I have been writing for a long time, so learning […]
From Indie book to TV Movie: The Three Questions I’m Asked the Most
In late 2018, as I wandered lost and alone on the streets of Uruguay during a temporary hiatus from my life in Alaska, my cell phone pinged. Someone had contacted me on my author website, wanting to know if my memoir’s dramatic rights had been optioned for film.“Probably just another scammer,” I told myself. Still, […]
Fearing—and Embracing—the Process By Gabriella Saab
Writing historical fiction is a complicated and extensive process, one that terrified me because I loved this genre and dreamed of writing it. But how could I possibly write a book and do so much research?! Then an idea came to me, persistent and relentless: In the scene was Maximilian Kolbe, a Franciscan friar and […]
Duality in Writing and in Life
Duality in Writing and in Life Many moons ago, when I lived under my parents’ roof, I expected to have solved the mysteries of life by the time I reached the grand old age of forty. What a fallacy that was. I realise now that despite the personas we project to the world, life is […]
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