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.
On Writing Dieting Sucks for Women Over 40: 30 to Life: The Ultimate Weight Loss and Hormone Balancing Solution by Debbie Harris
By Debbie Harris Writing a book is something I always wanted to do. Books were my escape from childhood, and I read voraciously. Harold Robbins probably wasn’t ideal for a 12-year-old, but I devoured The Adventurers, The Carpetbaggers, and my first, A Stone for Danny Fisher. Reading brought me to exciting places and people. Later […]
How a Short Story Became a Novel: The Making of Mercy Town
By Nancy Chadwick-Burke The early summer morning couldn’t have been more perfect. The air was clean, with enough humidity to pull sweet and spicy scents from the tops of the trees to their footings as the sun floated just above the horizon. A walk through the woods took me to a little bridge, a spot […]
Why I Wrote Jack and Lulu Go to the Tree Farm
By Julie Ryan McGue Doesn’t everyone have a favorite tree? Maybe it’s the maple that shaded your childhood home, the pine you decorated every December, or the oak that stood watch over a backyard fort. Trees root us in place and time, and their steady presence often becomes part of our family stories. When I […]
On Writing High Hopes: A Memoir
by Anne Abel At the age of 60, after having one desk too many thrown at me, I quit my community college teaching job, and then I panicked. I suffer with severe recurrent depression. I was terrified that without the structure and focus of the classroom I would fall into the abyss of depression. Then I remembered […]
Always and Forever by Lorraine Zago Rosenthal: Excerpt
“An elegant, slow-burning portrait of quiet heartbreak and enduring love.” –Kirkus Reviews Summary: Three decades ago, a tragedy ignited a chain of events that devastated two New York City families and still haunts them today. Even their youngest members, Suzanne Starek and Jay Darnell, haven’t been left unscathed. Suzanne is at the end of her […]
How Writing one Letter Turned into a Book
By Carol Van Den Hende Dear Women Writers, If you could pen a letter to anyone, living or dead, real or imaginary, who would you write to? Would you write about something left unsaid? That question sparked my fourth book, my collection of personal letters and true stories called Dear Orchid. Funny enough, my earliest […]
A Hero Lives Here, by Eileen Goudge
A Hero Lives Here, by Eileen Goudge “Eileen Goudge writes like a house on fire, creating characters you come to love and hate to leave.” What’s not to love about this blurb by Nora Roberts? Not only does it come from the mistress of propulsive fiction herself, but it sums up who I am as […]
Dear Bobby: On Writing Love letters to my Late Husband
Dear Bobby: On writing love letters to my late husband by Diana Papalia Zappa On December 8, 2018, my beloved husband Bob Zappa passed away from hereditary amyloidosis. We had met in 1986 and although there was an instant and intense connection, we weren’t able to be together until 2013. We married in 2015. He […]
On Writing The Ripple Eclipse: Turning the Tide of Inherited Trauma
By Audrey Hyams Romoff Living a turbulent life and writing about it are two very different things. It means revealing family secrets and piercing the veil of a seemingly idyllic life. Yet, that’s what I decided to do, I ignored the warnings from seasoned writers about the psychological fallout of diving into the trauma, and […]
Two Minds, One Story: The Realities of Co-Authoring a Series
By Betsey Kulakowski Collaboration is one of the most rewarding and challenging experience a writer can have. Co-writing a book series with an other author can elevate your storytelling to a new level, but it requires trust, communication, and a shared vision. I’ve learned a lot about myself as a writer while collaborating with the […]
Recent Comments