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.
Publishing A Book About Groupsex…During A Pandemic
Writing my second non-fiction book was easier in some ways than writing my first. I had a better sense of how long the work would take me, and how to balance research and writing time. What no one could have planned for is that about half the work on this book would take place during […]
Leaving Home, Finding a Voice: Young Women Crossing Borders
By Rajika Bhandari I got to know Sherry Duan as a student in a class I was teaching at Columbia University in New York City. Part of a Chinese generation that even from afar was immersed in American pop culture and lifestyle, Sherry decided early on that she would study in the U.S. after high […]
Ruchira Khanna: Humor In Writing
I write contemporary fiction genre with themes that revolve around the facts of life. Bowled but Not Out (BbNO) has a subject matter revolving around second chances. Often, an individual who has been let down the first time from a dysfunctional relationship will not have the courage to stand up and look out for another […]
THE LAST ONE HOME: Excerpt
The Last One Home by Victoria Helen Stone, coming from Lake Union Publishing on 3/30, A razor-sharp novel of suspense about the lies families tell―and those we choose to believe―by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Jane Doe. Lauren Abrams wants nothing to do with her damaged mother, whose spurious testimony sent Lauren’s father to […]
If Brevity is the Soul of Wit, Can I Ever Write a Funny Book?
By Audrey Burges My writing group’s conversation started, as it often does, with a question: can I write a funny novel? The topic started because I had been trying and failing to expand my satire writing into a full book. My most recent attempt to write a “lighthearted romantic comedy” took a hard left toward […]
Tammy Euliano on writing Fatal Intent
Tammy Euliano on writing Fatal Intent Embarking on the writing of a novel is a truly novel (ha!) experience. As a physician, researcher and teacher, who wrote extensively throughout my career in academic medicine, including an introductory anesthesiology textbook with my mentor, I assumed the words would flow and a book would appear. I couldn’t […]
How I Found My Ideal Reader, My Agent
When I finished the final draft of the manuscript that became my debut novel If, Then (Random House, 2019), I had a lot of pie in the sky aspirations. I wanted a fantastic agent, a talented editor at an imprint I admired, and also something that felt crazy to even say out loud, readers. It […]
A Story in Search of a Shape
Say you’re sitting on a hot story. Let’s make it a murder. Now raise the stakes and make it a murder you were involved in. What’s the best way to tell it? Far-fetched as it may seem, this premise is the story of the past fifty years of my life. Here’s one way to tell […]
Interview with Clara Falkenberg of The German Heiress by Anika Scott
About THE GERMAN HEIRESS Essen, 1946. Clara Falkenberg, once an iconic heiress, is on the run. With the city in ruins and her dear friend Elisa missing, Clara enlists the help of Jakob, a charming young racketeer with his own reasons for wanting to find Elisa. As the two join forces, it’s not long before […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Rebecca Yarros
THE THINGS WE LEAVE UNFINISHED by Rebecca Yarros A new heart-wrenching novel from USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Yarros that examines the risks we take for love, the scars too deep to heal, and the endings we can’t bring ourselves to see coming. Publishers Weekly gives it a STARRED REVIEW, saying that “readers will be […]
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