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.
ON WRITING: The Anxiety Sisters
After ten years of dreaming of a big publisher acquiring our book, it finally happened in March of 2020. We were over-the-moon excited and immediately started making plans to get together (as we live far apart) for some quality writing time. Most of you probably know what else happened in March of 2020—COVID showed up […]
Authors Interviewing Characters Series: Codi Schneider
About Cold Snap: A Viking Cat Mystery: When a murder shocks her peaceful mountain town, Bijou, a plucky house cat with a Viking spirit, must dive paws-first into solving the mystery before another life is taken—maybe even her own. Codi Schneider (author): Hi, Bijou, thanks for agreeing to this interview. Here is your pint of […]
Can Ghostwriting Make You a Better Novelist?
Yes. Without a doubt. Recently, I was asked how ghosting reflects on my work as a novelist. That stopped me. I’d just never considered the comparison. Lots of what I’m told as a ghost, never shows up in print, often never discussed out of the room in which it’s shared. Sorry, I’m nkim,,not about to […]
Writing Home: My Dark Dreams of Copenhagen
By Heidi Amsinck The past is a foreign country. Literally in my case. I left Denmark to become a London Correspondent mere days after graduating as a journalist and never moved back home. Over the course of my life, I have spent more time in London than I ever did in Copenhagen. Yet, the city […]
Authors Interviewing Characters series: Amber Daulton
About Arresting Mason, book one in the sexy romantic suspense series Arresting Onyx Once you’re in a prison gang, you’re in it for life. That’s what Mason Harding thought until the boss accepted his resignation. After the State releases him on parole, a sexy divorcée behind the wheel of a car almost ends his life […]
An Open Letter to the Seven Men Who Broke My Heart
Hi All, You know who you are – at least I hope you do. We went out together for a while way back when. Blonde. Tall. Hoping to be a writer one day. Ring any bells? This is just to let you know that I did it! My tenth novel comes out this September and […]
A Life-Changing Illness that Inspired a Story Filled with Hope
A life-changing illness that inspired a story filled with hope My most recent novel, Take A Moment, is more than a warm and witty romance: the inspiration for it came from my own life-limiting illness. It’s my way of giving a glimpse into the experiences of people with debilitating chronic conditions – because no one […]
Isabel del Rio: Writing A Woman Alone
I worked on my recently published memoir ‘A Woman Alone’ for about a decade, recounting not only my own experiences but the historical context in which I grew up. It all began with a poem discussing several dramatic events that I had lived through, and it built up from there. As the 2020 pandemic so […]
Palimpsest
Palimpsest Heather Martin, author of The Reacher Guy It started as a conversation and ended as a book. That was the story I told, and it wasn’t a lie. But the truth is there is no beginning, and there is no end, when it comes to books. One book always comes from and leads to […]
BRING THE HEAT by Bethany Crandell
(The slightly-less than inspiring inspiration behind my title: SEE JANE SNAP) I have a lot of hair. It’s thick. And curly. And thanks to the temperate San Diego climate looks pretty darn good most days. (For a frame of reference, one friend refers to me as, “Shakira”. Rest assured, the only viable comparison between the […]
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