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.
Identity Theft, Second Edition: Rediscovering Ourselves After Stroke: Excerpt
Identity Theft, Second Edition is an award-winning book that follows Stanford professor Debra Meyerson’s journey to recover from a severe stroke that initially left her physically incapacitated and unable to speak. In addition to providing realistic expectations for the hard work needed to regain everyday capabilities, Meyerson and Zuckerman focus on the less frequently documented emotional journey […]
Small Press Pages October 2025
Small Press Pages October 2025 October is a favorite month for our family. The kids and I are firmly grounded in the school groove, a crisp breeze sneaks in through the slightly open window, and the smell of burning leaves lingers in the air. And I can’t forget Halloween! Our neighborhood has always loved decorating […]
“Scattered Light”: How Fiction Can Help Us Heal Our Own Past Trauma
By Martha Engber All of us experience trauma of one kind or another. A terrible accident. A scary upbringing. A life-threatening illness. How we process that trauma varies widely. But I hazard to guess that most of us never address our demons at all, primarily because our “bring yourself up by your bootstraps” culture encourages […]
When Characters Choose You: Allowing Fictional Voices to Lead the Way
By Heather Frimmer I’ve always dreamt of being one of those authors who cultivates a never-ending list of ideas for their next novel—ideas popping into my head while commuting to work on the Merritt Parkway, shampooing my hair, or sniffing tomatoes in the produce section—but alas, I am not. A relentless self-editor, I won’t allow […]
The Origin Story: As Is—A Memoir on Healing the Past Through Yoga
By Rachel Krentzman PT, C-IAYT, MBA When I began writing my memoir, As Is: A Memoir on Healing the Past Through Yoga, it felt as though the story was burning inside me, demanding to be told. And yet, I didn’t quite have the courage to share something so raw and vulnerable. It was safer, at […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Amber Daulton
Lost in His Spiderwebs Kidnapped by the enemy. Bought by the jefe. Will his smoldering touch thaw her frozen heart? Rubén Lozano, the new leader of the Lozano Cartel, craves peace amidst a legacy of bloodshed and death. He never expected to find his ex-lover, Drina Cabrera, in the clutches of his vicious rivals. Her […]
Interview With A Death Goddess
Of Prophecies and Pomegranates In Kraven’s spicy, Greek mythology retelling, Persephone, Goddess of Spring, struggles to meet the impossible demands of her overbearing, manipulative mother, Demeter. Sequestered to the Upper Realm, far from the politics and intrigues of Olympus, Persephone begins to crack under the pressure, sure that she will never be enough. But the […]
Nineteen: A Memoir of Reckoning and Recovery by Leslie Johansen Nack: Excerpt
For fans of Stephanie Thornton-Plymale’s American Daughter and Cea Sunrise Person’s North of Normal comes Leslie Johansen Nack’s emotional follow-up memoir about her battle with addiction following a traumatic childhood—and her inspiring journey toward healing and happiness. In the mid-1970s, Leslie Nack’s family returned from sailing to French Polynesia and began the integration process into American life again, which […]
When Grief Takes Everything
by Vanessa May How do you survive when grief appears to take everything from you? When I wrote my first book ‘Love Untethered: How to Live When Your Child Dies’, I thought the loss of my son was the worst thing that could ever happen to me. And I was right, it was, but little […]
Writing Advice from My Teachers
My new book, Guardians & Saints, is a collection of stories about care as a process of give-and-take that’s shot through with ambivalence. My characters are students and teachers, doctors and patients, parents and children. They are preoccupied with what it means to care for others, and be cared for, through unavoidable separations—growing up, leaving […]
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