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.
Travel Helped Me Become a Writer – And Fulfilled a Prediction
When I was about eight and living with my parents, grandparents and two siblings in Miami Beach in a two-bedroom bungalow with Cuban tile floors, my father played the horses. I never knew if he would come back from the track smiling or ready to spank me for getting in his way. I was a […]
Stuck in the Squishy Middle
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 By Martha Conway We’ve all been there: […]
Reading the Dead: Women Writers buried in Virginia Cemeteries
During the summer of 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic suspended cemetery tours and gatherings, I looked for another way to feel connected with history. As an English professor, I naturally found myself reading the works of the authors buried in my local cemeteries including Ellen Glasgow, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1942, and popular […]
Writing Laid Bare: What The Business Leader Learnt From the Stripper
Trusting the signs When a third friend in a row mentioned in spring 2019 that I should write a book or that I’ll be a writer, I actually gave it a thought. I’d always enjoyed writing but haven’t ever been involved in a major writing project past postgraduate course. I knew my creativity was going […]
Why I Wrote a Novel about Neurogenetics, Parenting, and the end of the Byzantine empire
Why I wrote a novel about neurogenetics, parenting, and the end of the Byzantine empire In the summer of 2015, while seeing patients in the Neurological Institute of New York, I found myself with an unexpected break. As I walked down the hall outside my office, I ran into Michael Daras, a Greek-American neurologist whom […]
Rochelle Weinstein’s Fall Favorites!
Readers & Friends, How nice to be here with the wonderful Barbara Bos and Women Writers, Women’s Books! Not only do I write women’s fiction novels, but I’m also a huge reader. My mother passed down her love of the written word; I’d sneak Sidney Sheldon and Danielle Steele off her shelf, slipping inside the […]
Favorite Bookstores: Kaira Rouda
By Kaira Rouda Since I started in the book writing business, publishing my first book, Real You Incorporated, in 2008, I’ve known the way to find your readers is through your local bookstore. When I began this author journey, I lived in Columbus, Ohio, and there we were fortunate to have an exemplary local bookstore […]
Interview with J.L. Doucette
UNKNOWN ASSAILANT (November 23, She Writes Press) is J.L. Doucette’s third installment in the Dr. Pepper Hunt book series that features a small-town mystery, intergenerational trauma, questionable suspects, and unforeseen twists. You covered her last book, so I am hopeful you will want to continue the journey. When a murder/suicide takes place in a prominent family’s ranch […]
Give the Most Powerful Gift of All: Books! Heather Levy
Give the Most Powerful Gift of All: Books! Heather Levy It’s been 37 years, but I still remember the first book anyone ever gifted me. I was in kindergarten, and my teacher, always effervescent in her enthusiasm for reading, gave each of her students a book during our classroom holiday party. I recall staring at […]
When do you Know the Story is Complete? Randy Kraft
When do you know the story is complete? Randy Kraft I was asked recently a question from an aspiring writer: how do you know when the book ends? The mutual friend serving as messenger was also curious because she is often disappointed by endings that seem rushed or implausible. Or writers who drop another layer […]
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