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.
Zoje Stage: Authors Interviewing Characters
SOMETHING OF A CALLING Detective Andy Cooper is about to retire. She isn’t sure what’s next … perhaps traveling in the RV she has yet to buy, with a dog she doesn’t currently own. Perhaps gardening near the ever-shrinking patch of woods behind her house-once the cable company’s backhoe is removed. She’ll need to do something, […]
HOME: A Memoir of Family, Forgiveness, and Healing from Complex PTSD by Amy Smyth Miller
Her past held the answers—if she was brave enough to face it. After nearly losing her husband, Amy Smyth Miller’s panic spirals out of control. Therapy reveals a diagnosis she never expected: Complex PTSD. In search of healing, Amy embarks on a harrowing excavation of her past—childhood neglect, homelessness, parental addiction, and a family history shadowed by suicide. […]
What Is a Novel-in-Stories, and Why Might You Want to Write One? by Laura Bonazzoli
A dozen years ago, I fell in love with a strange little book first published in 1919 by an author named Sherwood Anderson. Called Winesburg, Ohio, it’s composed of 22 “tales” narrating the lives of 22 residents of a small Midwestern town. We meet a schoolteacher who, past ten o’clock on a snowy winter night, […]
Both Jekyll and Hyde: Writing Memoir in Two Voices by Georgine Hodgkinson
A teacher once told me that if you want to write about trauma in memoir, you’d best wait a decade to do it. At the time I thought this was silly. Why not write while the details were still fresh? But I’ve come to see the wisdom in it: distance is what lets a memoirist […]
On Writing Theophano: Witch or Saint? A Byzantine Historical Novel by Olga Athanasiadou
We all know that the official history of the world’s various regions is always written by the victors. Yet, certain quiet souls contribute to shaping it-souls whose radiance illuminates an entire region, reaching the very places where ordinary people feel forgotten by everyone and everything. Before I reveal the process I followed to write the […]
Remembering 9/11 By Caroline Bock, Author of The Other Beautiful People
This year, tomorrow, 9/11, falls on a Friday. For me, 9/11 will always be a Tuesday. Twenty-five years ago, I woke up early after a sleepless night. I had a big day. Bravo cable network was holding a press conference at a swanky hotel downtown for our first reality series – The It Factor, and […]
The Book My Mother Was Supposed to Write by Alicia Duncan
On October 29, 2021, my mother was released from an involuntary psychiatric hold in British Columbia. Four hours later, she died through Canada’s assisted-dying program, officially known as Medical Assistance in Dying. She was sixty-one, she was not terminally ill, and three days earlier, she had attempted suicide. In the years since, I have returned […]
I Set Myself a Deadline of my Own Menopause…
…when I set out to write a book on aging and menopause in Japan. So, every time I got my period I felt like I got an extension. After finishing the book, I missed my periods for several months in a row, and thought I had just easily transitioned into menopause. Not quite. About 6 […]
I’ve Launched Products for 27 Years. My Own Book Broke Every Rule By Pandora Villaseñor
The spreadsheet headers were crisp. The follow-up formulas were locked. The list of contacts was promising. I selected the elevator pitch for my memoir in the Notes app and copied it. Yet my thumb hovered over the DM. I couldn’t make myself paste. I closed the social app. Twenty-seven years of sales, business development, and […]
Building with Memories: How Writing Down My Father’s Stories Became a Bridge to History by Donna Hills Patrick
For much of my professional life I worked in construction and space management. My work was about understanding how pieces fit together—to how take an idea, develop a plan, solve problems, and bring it all together into something that could stand on its own. I learned that building anything worthwhile takes time, and it takes […]
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