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.
In A Testy Exchange, Book Character Interviews Her Author
A TINY PIECE OF BLUE For fans of Kristin Hannah’s The Four Winds and Lisa Wingate’s Shelterwood comes a heartwarming historical novel following a homeless young girl as she struggles to survive during the Great Depression. Rural Michigan, 1934. During the throes of the Great Depression, thirteen-year-old Silstice Trayson finds herself homeless, abandoned by her parents after a devastating […]
Threads of Sicily: The Roots Behind Becoming Mariella
by Janet Constantino When a writer friend asked me, “If you could write about anything you wanted, what would that be?” I immediately thought of Sicily, where half my family was born, where my father partially grew up, and where traditions rooted deeply in family and culture and family have shaped lives, especially the lives […]
Reading With Rochelle Weinstein: January
Hello Readers & Friends, That may have been the longest month ever. January gave us a lot to digest, and I want to make a special mention of those affected by the D.C. crash and the Palisades fires. Our hearts are with you and your loved ones. As we enter February, I’m super excited about […]
Making it Work: How to Publish a Book When You’re in the Throes of Grief
By Cindy Eastman My second book was published in September of 2024. Finally. It was a long time coming and the topic was part of the reason for the delay in publishing my second book: it is a memoir in essays about my experience taking care of my dad for the last four years of […]
EXCERPT FROM The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared by Casey Mulligan Walsh
THE FULL CATASTROPHE: ALL I EVER WANTED, EVERYTHING I FEARED, Casey Mulligan Walsh Casey needs a family of her own: the joys and the sorrows, people who love her, and a place she belongs-what Zorba the Greek called “the full catastrophe”-and she’s determined to make it happen. Adrift in the world after losing her father […]
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe by Marlene L. Daut : Excerpt
The essential biography of the controversial revolutionary and only king of Haiti. Henry Christophe (1767 – 1820) is one of the most richly complex figures in the history of the Americas, and was, in his time, popular and famous the world over. In The First and Last King of Haiti, a brilliant, award-winning Yale scholar unravels the still […]
Author Interviewing Characters: Author Maggie Anton Interviews Shifra
THE MIDWIVES’ ESCAPE After years of archaeological research and biblical studies, award-winning author Maggie Anton has created a historical novel filled with adventure, warfare, and romance, that is true to both Torah and to history. The Bible contains many extraordinary stories of a sometimes benevolent, sometimes vengeful deity, who guides the Israelites out of slavery, […]
Authors Interviewing Characters Gemma Tizzard, speaking to Grace O’Connell from Grace of the Empire State.
A daring young woman takes her brother’s place to risk her life in New York City. A breathtaking historical novel full of heart and hope, family and friendship, and the sacrifices we make for love… As the Great Depression bites, show dancer Grace’s Irish immigrant family can’t afford the rising rents, nor the medicine that her […]
On Writing KAYA OF THE OCEAN
Recently, I’ve found myself thinking a lot about my experience of writing, and how it differs depending on the genre and format of the finished piece. Take, for example, the two mediums I write in the most: short stories and middle grade novels. For me, writing short stories is a great way to spark creativity […]
The Inspiration for Unruly Human Hearts
How my advocacy for women’s rights and gender equality inspired my debut novel Unruly Human Hearts I first became interested in exploring the Beecher-Tilton scandal of the Reconstruction era while teaching a graduate class on US history at the University of Puerto Rico. At first, my students didn’t seem too interested in the 1875 trial […]
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