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.
Excerpt from GERTA by Kateřina Tučková
We are excited to partake in the blogtour of Czech author Kateřina Tučková and her award-winning novel, GERTA, her first to be translated into English by the talented Véronique Firkusny (Amazon Crossing; February 1, 2021; $24.95). Set in Brno, a city in the South Moravian region of the Czech Republic and the author’s hometown, GERTA […]
SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO LIE: EXCERPT
We are delighted to partake in the blogtour for SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO LIE: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet The Spy (Seal Press Hardcover; December 1, 2020; $30) by LESLIE BRODY— an acclaimed biographer known for revealing the stories of delightfully complicated feminists in modern history. Harriet the Spy, […]
Imperfect Alchemist: Writing Women’s Voices
By Naomi Miller Many popular novels about Renaissance women picture them in relation to powerful men. One need look no further than the steady stream of novels about the wives of Henry VIII, perpetuating a phenomenon that I have named the “Noah’s ark approach,” which positions women in dependent relation to famous men. Contemporary readers […]
YOUR STORY, MY STORY : Excerpt
We are delighted to partake in Connie Palmen’s Blog tour for her book YOUR STORY, MY STORY From the award-winning author of The Friendship comes a shattering, brilliantly inventive novel based on the volatile true love story of literary icons Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. In 1963 Sylvia Plath took her own life in her London flat. […]
Write to Heal, Heal to Write
Write to heal, heal to write They tell you to write what you know. It’s a cliché but that’s what I’m doing – no matter how raw it is. The protagonist in my medical murder mystery series is a doctor (so am I). She also lives with bipolar disorder… It took a bit of guts […]
My Writing Life: Sunday Taylor
When the idea came to me for my novel, I remember racing to my computer and writing in a sort of frenzy. I wrote a few pages in this exhilarating state of mind, then closed my computer and went on with what I had been doing, probably cooking dinner. Reading what I had written the […]
Writing Taint: A Novel, a necessary fiction
My book, Taint: A Novel, was published by Atmosphere Press in December, 2021. My first handwritten drafts were produced for a novel writing class with Ben Brooks at Emerson College in Boston. In the year 2006. You do the calculus. A wedding, a move from Indiana to Boston, a few houses, a move to Budapest, […]
An Interview with Pamela N. Harris
Pamela N. Harris was born and somewhat raised in Newport News, Virginia, also affectionately known as “Bad News.” A former school counselor by day, she received her bachelor’s in English and a master’s in school counseling at Old Dominion University, her M.F.A in creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and a Ph.D. in counselor education […]
The Winding Path to My Writing Career By Stacy Wise
Back when I was in third grade, my mom returned from a parent-teacher conference with the news that my teacher had said I was a good writer. I’m not sure what else she said—she could’ve come home with a litter of fluffy puppies for all I knew—but I was off dancing in the clouds. It […]
The Adventure Continues
The adventure continues…novels, flash fiction, no agent no cry, to belong, or longing just to crosspollinate, to write, write, write… Eleven years ago this site was kind enough to publish my contribution How My Day Job Saved My Writing Life. I was just leaving one day job and starting another. Several links in that article […]
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