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.
It’s Never Too Late
By Laverty Sparks At this juncture of my life, I have acquired a major checklist. Workforce career completed…CHECK. Marriage for third time, and right time…CHECK. Healing from family lost: both loving parents, and now a sister/best friend…CHECK. Learn to live without children or grandchildren…CHECK. OK, I could add to this list, but I’m digressing away […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Liz Alterman interviews Molly Archer from A Different Type of Poison
A DIFFERENT TYPE OF POISON How much truth is worth telling? The Plot meets Disclaimer in a simmering, slow-burn domestic thriller and psychological suspense novel that explores the stories we tell, the secrets we bury, and the price we pay for both, perfect for fans of Sally Hepworth, Liane Moriarty, and Lisa Jewell. When a bestselling author receives […]
Career or Calling?
By Anese Miller I know I’m not alone in wondering from time to time, Why do we bother writing in the era of visual entertainment? Video, film and photography proliferate in many formats, capturing eyeballs on social media, in games and shows available on-demand. Why slave over a blank page, struggle to publish, and offend […]
Author Interviewing Characters: Cynthia Leal Massey
Well of Deception On the morning of March 14, 1958, breeder Maggie Schneider, the Poultry Queen of Lipan County, is shot and killed while feeding her prize-winning, White Holland turkeys on her farm in south central Texas. Everyone knows who did it, but finding the killer isn’t so easy. The search uncovers a troubled family […]
The World’s Wealthiest Women: Fascinating Biographies of Heiresses, Royals, Entrepreneurs, and Entertainers: Excerpt
We are delighted to feature an excerpt from Fortunes and Fates—The Untold Stories of the World’s Richest Women by Marlene Wagman-Geller! Where wealth meets destiny, tragedy often follows. Heiresses have always dazzled with their unimaginable wealth, the cornucopia of fortune spilling opportunity at their feet. Yet, The World’s Wealthiest Women reveals through intimate historical biographies […]
Coming Home to Me: The Story Before the Story by Amal Hdhili
By Amal Hdhili Every story starts somewhere. Not always in a childhood memory or a grand epiphany, but sometimes in the quietest, most fragile moments — the ones we barely notice while living them. And every book begins with something small yet powerful enough to provoke us: a question, a crack in our confidence, a […]
Publish a Book, Lose a Friend by Laura Bonazzoli
By Laura Bonazzoli We shared everything. Over bowls of thick soup in our favorite café, we’d swap recipes and healthcare tips and stories: her father’s drinking, my father’s rage, our siblings who’d died too young, the misogyny we’d had to overcome. And we were both writers. I’d published more— academic and technical works, dozens of […]
Life as a WIP
By Nancie Abuhaidar WIP: abbreviation for work in progress or process: a piece of work or a product that has been begun but is not finished or ready –Cambridge Dictionary In the work in progress that is my life, it feels like I’m living the boggy middle of a first draft, a fact echoed literally in my current project. Since I self-published my debut, I’ve been working on the next […]
What Virginia Woolf Taught Me
In my mid-century memoir, Cold War in a Hot Kitchen, I relate that when my mother went back to university to study for a master’s degree, my father refused to let her talk about it. He was embarrassed, he said. It was pretentious for his wife to pursue a graduate degree, when so many of […]
On Writing The House of Cavanaugh
By Polly Dugan Describing the genesis of my new novel The House of Cavanaugh almost feels like a novel unto itself. For several years, completing it felt like a Sisyphean task, and I often doubted it would ever make its way off my computer and out into the world and into the hands of its […]
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