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.
The Space in Between: An Empath’s Field Guide by Signe Myers Hovem
by Signe Myers Hovem One of the blurbs offered for my book The Space in Between: An Empath’s Field Guide generously states that I “put words to the wordless,” which honestly, was the most gratifying praise I could have received. It also partly explains why it took me so long to write my book—nearly ten […]
Interview with Samantha Durbin
Special K numbs her. Crystal meth makes her mean. Sixteen-year-old Samantha, raver extraordinaire, puts the “high” in high school. Samantha Durbin’s memoir RAVER GIRL Coming of Age in the 90s is out now and we’re delighted to feature this interview with her! Thank you so much for joining us on WWWB, Samantha! Thank you for […]
Why I wrote Shifting Shorelines
My upcoming book Shifting Shorelines: Messages from a Wiser Self is dedicated to my sister Nancy, who will never have a chance to read it. Still, I picture her clasping my book to her heart—not solely because I wrote it, but also because she would resonate with my ode to nature, the passage of time, […]
Can Fiction Fight Stigma?
Can Fiction Fight Stigma? My debut novel, Sugar and Snails, was about a woman with a marginalised identity. When I began writing it in 2008, many of those with that identity kept it hidden. We’ve become more familiar with that identity since that novel was published in 2015. Nevertheless, many readers still tell me my […]
Heather Frimmer: Interview
Heather Frimmer is a radiologist specializing in breast and emergency room imaging. Her first novel, Bedside Manners, was published in 2018 and has received several awards including National Indie Excellence, Readers’ Favorite and Independent Press awards. Heather Frimmer’s second novel, Better To Trust, tackles a world of secrets swirling around drug use and sexual identity—that must […]
Humans From Clay, and Other Authorial Pursuits
“Aruru washed her hands, she pinched off some clay, and threw it into the wilderness. In the wilderness she created the valiant Enkidu” — The Epic of Gilgamesh, stela 1 While writing The Original Glitch, I became incredibly preoccupied with the human obsession with creation. That is, the creation of life in the image of […]
How Much of Your Book is Based on Real Life?
If you have written a novel and gone out into public to speak about it, I am willing to bet money that someone has asked you that question. I have found that many readers assume that authors, especially those of contemporary, realistic novels, almost always write stories based on their personal experiences, as if we […]
Interview with Julie Scolnik
“Not every true story is like a good novel, but this one is. Not every memoir of first love has a satisfying ending, but this one does. The confluence of first love with becoming an artist makes this memoir special.” — John Irving PARIS, 1976: Twenty-year-old American student Julie Scolnik had just arrived in the […]
How My Strategic Communications Background Helped Me Finish my debut, AFTER PERFECT By Maan Gabriel
How My Strategic Communications Background Helped Me Finish my debut, AFTER PERFECT. By Maan Gabriel Story telling is in my blood. My mom swears she successfully taught me to read and tell my fairytales in front of an audience at three years old and that it was my favorite thing in the world. I didn’t […]
Unstuck
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. As a young child, much to my parents’ dismay, I loved to write on wallpaper. I tried to write in […]
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