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.
My Truth in Fiction by Barbara Conrey
It wasn’t until I started writing that I discovered how much of my history and emotions were within the pages of the books I wrote. Which made me wonder how much truth is disguised as fiction in other novels. In Nowhere Near Goodbye, my debut, my anger at medical science, and, yes, God, was clearly […]
Reading With Rochelle Weinstein: October
Hello Readers & Friends, How are we all doing? As we bid goodbye to October and welcome the time change, I wonder which you prefer? I had one reader tell me longer nights mean more reading in bed. Another preferred longer beach days for the same—reading. Both sound right to me. Yesterday was our fearless […]
Writing About World Peace: What My Fantasy Trilogy Taught Me About Human Nature
By Reni Stankova For 30 years, I wholeheartedly believed our world was heading toward world peace. Naive, I know. No one thinks of world peace when looking at the state of politics today. I am a millennial from Eastern Europe, born in the fateful year of 1989. It was the year when the communist regime […]
Nature’s Blueprint for Organizational Design
By Ines Garcia Sometimes the most profound realizations come not from seeking answers, but from recognizing patterns we’ve been experiencing all along. In 2021, I found myself at an intersection. As a circular economy professional, agile and organizational coach, I’d spent years helping teams and organizations navigate change, build resilience, and discover new ways of […]
THE FIX by Mia Sheridan: Excerpt
THE FIX From New York Times bestselling author Mia Sheridan comes a chilling take on second chances, where a brutal break-in comes back to haunt the sole survivor with a new threat—and another victim. Eleven years ago, Cami Cortlandt’s mother and sister died cruelly in a violent home invasion. The trauma and notoriety still linger, but […]
On Story Work: The Art of Living (and Writing) the Questions
By GG Renee Hill “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live […]
Imagining Mary Cassatt: Behind the Curtain of The Cassatt Sisters
by Lisa Groen When writing a novel about a historical figure like Mary Cassatt, a member of the larger Impressionist collective, it can be difficult to decide who to include as main characters of her story. All the Impressionists would be interesting to write about, not to mention her famous teachers in Paris. To make […]
When A Character Takes Over Your Novel
By Gabi Coatsworth I needed a ghost. I’d just published my debut novel, A Beginner’s Guide to Starting Over, and was beginning my follow-up. I was about halfway into writing the second one when I began to receive feedback from readers about the first. One of the things they commented on was how much they […]
Developing Complex Characters
By Mary Alice Stephens My book, Uncorked: A Memoir of Letting Go and Starting Over (Sibylline Press, August 2025), explores my search for identity after ending a 30-year abusive relationship with alcohol. The central conflict is between two opposing parts of my personality: Fun Mary and Sober Mary. During my drinking days, I was Fun […]
Cowboys, Rodeos, and a Stray Dog
By Nan Reinhardt I have to confess that I panicked when my publisher Jane Porter asked me to move from River’s Edge, my little town on the Ohio River to Marietta, Montana. I mean, holy schnikeys! Frankly, I’d never been to the West before and I knew nothing about cowboys. Oh, I’d spent lots of […]
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