Author Archive: Women Writers Women Books
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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 […]
On Writing Always Hungry
Always Hungry was the book that I had to write. No longer could I be silent about my own lived experience in a larger body because (at the risk of making a bad dad joke) I realised that this story was bigger than me. Mine is a story of reclaiming my health, of discrimination, of […]
TO OUTWIT THEM ALL by Peggy Wirgau: EXCERPT
TO OUTWIT THEM ALL “Into the Lions’ den I go…” Betty Floyd’s uncle risked his life when he signed the Declaration of Independence, yet she is the epitome of British loyalty and social grace in 1779. Attempting to ignore the war, she attends New York’s balls and soirees with the Crown’s officers, but the city […]
Where Birds Land by Mary Ruth Barnes, Excerpt
WHERE BIRDS LAND, Mary Ruth Barnes Ella McSwain is a Chickasaw woman raising her family amidst evolving turmoil within the budding state of Oklahoma. After Ella is left with an unusable plot of land, she finds herself fighting for her family’s rightful allotment. Faced with crooked businessmen, land grifters, and grueling court battles, can she […]
On Writing My Pretty Baby: Seeking Truth and Finding Healing―A Memoir by Wendy B. Correa
Like many authors, I was haunted by stories that needed to be told, that demanded to be told, that wouldn’t stop badgering me until they saw themselves on paper. I began to write chapters of My Pretty Baby: Seeking Truth and Finding Healing in 2015 while attending writing classes at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver […]
The Power of Memoir By Mary Garden
By Mary Garden Writing my life helped heal me – and showed others they weren’t alone I love true stories, especially memoirs. That’s what I write. I have now written three books, each exploring my past or my family’s history. Through writing, I’ve learned that memoir is not just a gift to readers but also […]
Mid-Life Writers Can Survive Perimenopause
By Alexandra Addams As a mid-life, female novelist with a completed manuscript clutched in your sweaty hand, you face many challenges to get that book out in the world. You took your sweet time with the writing and now you love it. Then you edited the darn thing for umpteenth revisions until finally you were […]
I’m Jealous of Pamela Anderson, But Not for the Reasons You Might Think
A Memoirist Shares by Renee Gilmore The other night, I found myself watching a Netflix documentary about Pamela Anderson. Why? I’m not exactly sure. I’ll admit—I had my own assumptions about her. I imagined her life, filled with wealth and ease, sunshine and fresh-squeezed juices. Maybe that’s true, maybe not. It makes me wince, saying […]
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