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.
Forever Starts Now: Excerpt
FOREVER STARTS NOW: If you love romantic comedies and fake relationships (also a hot Australian), this one’s for you! About FOREVER STARTS NOW: What happens when two people who’ve given up on forever find it in each other…? Single men are as scarce in Forever Falls as a vegetarian at a barbecue. That is, until […]
Becoming a Writer: Calibrating the Work Against the Pleasure
I met Jacomena van Huizen Maybeck when I was thirty-three and she was seventy-seven. I’d hoped to rent her cottage, and found her tarring the roof, dressed in a halter top and shorts. I’d never met anyone like her. She knew how to throw a pot, wield an ax or a sickle, and make plum […]
Writing with an American Accent By Jyotsna Sreenivasan
Nine years ago, while waiting for my first novel to come out (And Laughter Fell from the Sky), I excitedly put together a website of “second generation” literature, as in, fiction and memoir by children of immigrants (SecondGenStories.com). I wanted to list as many novels and memoirs as I could from authors whose parents were […]
Love and Loss By Habiba Zaman
Love and loss are our greatest teachers in life. We learn what it means to care and act on that love as well as learning the extent to which we have cared by the intensity of the grief when the object of that love is lost. From childhood, we cling to comfort, shared experience, laughter, […]
WILDFLOWER SEASON: Excerpt
WILDFLOWER SEASON She always followed the path of least resistance…until it leads her to a small town where she can follow her dreams. When Emma Cantrell’s marriage imploded, she learned a fast and painful lesson about trusting her heart. Then, on a visit to Magnolia, North Carolina, to see her brother, an elegant, if dilapidated, mansion […]
Let Us Look Elsewhere: Excerpt
Mona Dash is the author of A Roll of the Dice : a story of loss, love and genetics (Linen Press, 2019) winner of the Eyelands International Book Awards for memoir, and very recently, Let Us Look Elsewhere (Dahlia Books, June ’21).Her other published books are A Certain Way, Untamed Heart, and Dawn-drops. Her work has […]
Editing Night Feeds and Morning Songs: Poetry of Motherhood
In 2020, while homeschooling my two young children solo and working as a publicist, I edited an anthology of poetry about motherhood. Not since the newborn days had I been quite so much in the trenches of parenting. Even with the many advantages we enjoyed – adequate technology and living space, good health, kids without […]
Write What You Know—But Not Exactly!
My second novel, Just One Look, tackles the subject of first love, a universal theme. At will, I can summon the face of my first love and the intense waves of desire and longing that claimed me so many years ago. Channeling those feelings helped me write the story of Dani Marek, who fell in […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Shawn Nocher
Shawn Nocher’s compelling debut novel A HAND TO HOLD IN DEEP WATER (Blackstone; June 22, 2021; Hardcover) tells the story of Lacey and her stepfather Willy, who are deeply bruised by the mysterious disappearance of Lacey’s mother thirty years ago. Reluctant to uncover their past that is brimming with unanswered questions, Lacey and Willy must now face a […]
You Know More Than You Think
“Write what you know,” especially for a rookie fiction writer, is more than sound advice; it’s almost tautological. When you pick up a debut novel, it’s a good bet that you’ll find the author has been inspired by people and places she knows and her own personal experiences and professional knowledge. Despite the occasional raised […]
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