Author Archive: Women Writers Women Books
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The Two Worlds of Being an Author by Susan Keller
By Susan Keller I wrote my second book, Mostly Sober: A Love Story and a Road Trip for the thirty-four percent of Americans who drink every night and worry about it. “Mommy wine” is a very real concern. My hope is that Mostly Sober will captivate, educate, and motivate the hundreds of thousands of readers […]
Location, Location, Location by Suzanne Trauth
by Suzanne Trauth When I think of some of my favorite authors, I immediately am reminded of the locations of the stories: the charming town of Three Pines in Canadian author Louise Penny’s Armand Gamache mysteries; gritty Chicago in Tracy Clark’s Harriet Foster novels; and, since I am a New Jersey native, the “Burg” in […]
Adverbial Phrases ARE Adverbs Too
By Kathy Steinemann, author of The Writers Lexicon series Adverbs Are Disparaged by Many Editors and Writing Pundits In On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King says: “I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. To put it another way, they’re like dandelions. […]
My Husband’s Child by Alison Ragsdale: Excerpt
My Husband’s Child When I find a little girl standing on my doorstep, I don’t know what to do. But as I take her small hand in mine, she whispers words that will change my life. ‘Mummy said you’d look after me.’ Ever since her husband left her for another woman, Cora has been trying to put […]
WILD TALES OF RABID RACCOONS AND PERSISTENT EDITORS
By Nancy Robards Thompson After years of journaling and writing for various Central Florida newspapers, I got serious about fiction in 1997. I quickly learned that writing a novel is a far cry from jotting down thoughts in a notebook or crafting a feature piece for the paper. Even though I had a lot to […]
How I Wrote Brave-ish: A Story of Courage, Loss, and TikTok
By Lisa Niver Writing Brave-ish was both a deeply personal and unexpectedly impactful experience. What began as a reflection on my own journey—exploring courage, identity, and adventure—became a deeply cathartic process. Even if it had never been published, the act of writing it would have been enough for me. But once it reached the hands […]
On Writing A Deux, or How to Co-Author in a Cross-Country Friendship
by Carol Kerr and Linda Edelstein, co-authors of Not The Trip We Planned In the early 1980s, Linda Edelstein and I made a vow we would someday write a mystery together because it would be so much more fun than our dissertations. We were plowing through a psychology doctoral program at Northwestern. She was a […]
On Writing Not Good Enough Girl: A Memoir of an Inconvenient Daughter
Amidst the control, confusion, and chaos caused by her eight-times-married mother, this author’s story spans the extreme emotions of a mother-daughter relationship, touching on cyclical family dysfunction, addiction, and forgiveness. When my mother’s sixth husband died, I felt broadsided by the amount of guilt, anger, and disturbing childhood memories that arose, and I decided to […]
The Process is the Art…
By Diane Wheaton Writing is art. And to start my process, I make coffee, drip of course, and black. I then enter my sage green study, lined with bookcases, as I’m an avid reader and it seems, a book collector as well. I settle into a comfortable position in my high-back chair at my beloved, […]
Why Are We Afraid To Talk About Death?
Death is a constant presence, an inherent part of life, a fact of humanity. Yet in much of western culture, we pretend this isn’t the case. We are afraid to talk about death, or acknowledge it in any way. We avert our eyes, lower our voices, and avoid bringing up our own or others’ losses, […]
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