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.
Why I Write Spice
by Jennie L. Spohr The first romance novel I ever read was Secrets, Sweet Valley High Book 2, by Francine Pascal. Forced to read them out of order, as they were continuously checked out of our school library, we flock of prepubescent girls (and some boys) flew to the shelves as soon as the lunch […]
Ending one Successful Series to Create Another
By Jeannée Sacken In my first series, photojournalist Annie Hawkins was frequently on assignment in Afghanistan and finding ways to keep the passion burning with her lover Finn Cerelli. After finishing three books, the characters were living in my head. They’d talk endlessly to me, with Cerelli often choosing to sit on the bench in […]
Breathing New Life into My Book Publishing Journey
By Karin K. Jensen A Timely Chance to Humanize the Immigrant Experience Throughout my childhood, my mother told stories of growing up in her father’s Detroit laundry business during the infancy of the auto industry, and later in a Cantonese village on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War. She also spoke of what it was […]
The Hardest Part about Writing
By Rebecca Lee Smith For me, the hardest part about writing is plotting. Some writers possess that effortless gift for weaving story lines, themes, and character studies together in just the right way, until a plot emerges fully developed. Like magic. Some writers can do this without breaking a sweat. I am not that writer. […]
WHERE THE MUSE WAITS
Santa Cruz, California. 3:00 am. My phone rang. “Storm’s coming in fast,” a friend said. “Can you help?” I pulled on jeans, layers of shirts, and work boots. Grabbed a rain jacket on my way out the door. I’d never harvested grapes, but I was prepared for physical work. Little did I suspect the Muse […]
Hunting for Words by Deborah Lee Luskin
By Deborah Lee Luskin Walking into the woods in the dark before dawn carrying a rifle was the hardest thing I’d done since I turned sixty. Writing about it was harder. I became a deer hunter because I wanted to be able to find my way through the northern forest without following a marked trail. […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Susan Coventry
TILL TAUGHT BY PAIN Inspired by the groundbreaking discoveries of ether and chloroform anesthesia, William Stewart Halsted pursues a surgical career with relentless ambition, daring to perform operations deemed impossible by his peers. His reputation skyrockets with each bold success— until his quest for an effective local anesthetic leads him to inject himself with cocaine. […]
A Judge’s Tale: A Trailblazer Fights for Her Place on the Bench by Janet Kintner, EXCERPT
A Judge’s Tale: A Trailblazer Fights for Her Place on the Bench by Janet Kintner For fans of The Good Wife and Suits, the true story of a passionately principled young female judge in the man’s world of the ’60s and ’70s who is forced to defend her judgeship against two male challengers in a grueling election—while pregnant […]
Random Nuggets for Writerly Wranglings
I’m still a newish author, with much to learn, but I’ve picked up a few things in the last six years and four books, random nuggets for writers wherever they’re at in their writerly wranglings. Let me share! For the newbie writer– It’s great to have a fantastic scenario for your story, but your characters […]
How Today’s Savvy Schemers Are Scamming New Authors
ARE THE STARS OUT TONIGHT…OR JUST IN WRITERS’ EYES? By Christina Hamlett Less than 72 hours after my latest UK cozy mystery went on the market, an effusive greeting popped up in my email: “A LITTLE REVENGE IN ROBIN HOOD’S BAY is the best of the best in literary gems with its irresistible mix of […]
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