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.
Leadership Flow: Excerpt
In Leadership Flow: The Unstoppable Power of Connection, author Peri Chickering offers a refreshing approach to leadership development—a philosophy that is bold and current and yet, in many respects, as old as humanity. Peri proposes there is a flow—an underlying rhythm to life—that fuels and evokes effective leadership. We can all lead more productively and […]
An Ode to Sticky Notes
Occasionally someone in one of the various on-line writing groups in which I hang out will ask how people organize their research. It usually generates a discussion of digital versus paper filing systems. And I occasionally weigh in with my own multi-layered, always evolving system of computer files, notebooks, 3 x 5 cards, and the […]
Inspiration for THE RECEPTIONIST
Seasoned Los Angeles TV producer Kate Myles makes her fiction debut with THE RECEPTIONIST (Thomas & Mercer; 8/1), a blazing love triangle situated in the world that churns after “Cut!” A top reality talent agent can only look past her TED-Talking business guru husband’s infidelity for so long before she has to take matters into […]
Interview with Jeanne Baker Guy
Cedar Park, Texas – In 1977, Jeanne’s German ex-husband, Klaus, tells her he has a new job and wants to take their three-year-old daughter and six-year-old son away for a long weekend to celebrate. Jeanne relents. But Klaus never returns and instead sends Jeanne a letter, delivered by a priest, in which he declares that […]
Why I Write Romance: Lilac Mills
Happy Ever After… It’s such an evocative phrase, isn’t it? We are brought up on a diet of it from an early age, usually with the words “once upon a time” at the beginning, and it’s woven into the very fabric of our society. But is it really possible to have a happy ever after? […]
From Poet to Picture Book Author — The Pitfalls and Pleasures of Changing Genre
Deborah Fannie Miller I never had any intention of writing a picture book. I had no knowledge, experience, or discernable skills in that area, either. At the time I ended up writing one, I thought of picture books as just one more tool for getting our young night owl daughter to go to sleep. Writing […]
Writing Historical Fiction with Debut Novelist Samantha Specks
Inspired by the true story of the thirty-eight Dakota-Sioux men hanged in Minnesota in 1862―the largest mass execution in US history―Dovetails in Tall Grass is a tale of two young women connected by the fate of one man. Writing Historical Fiction with debut novelist Samantha Specks Though my novel is about events in 1862, for me the […]
Seeing Inside The Unseen
Many years ago, before I became a writer, I worked for a boutique investment firm in Silicon Valley writing business plans for start-ups. I would sit in plush Palo Alto living rooms with two or three men, always older, always white, who’d already made their fortunes but were looking to make another, bigger one. They […]
On Getting the History Right (or Trying to…)
The foundation for All Things That Deserve To Perish, the story of a gifted German-Jewess who finds herself in a fragile mixed marriage, was laid in my early days as a graduate student in history. On reading a biography of Bismarck’s banker, Gerson Bleichroeder, I landed one day on a story that really moved me. […]
On Writing and Teaching: Barbara Bleiman
I was ten when I wrote my first novel. OK, so it was on lined paper, in a blue exercise book, written in pencil with lots of crossings out, and its subject was a fairy, but it was the start of thinking ambitiously about writing fiction. For many decades after that, life got in the […]
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