Author Archive: Women Writers Women Books
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Write Naked: A Love Letter to the Writer’s Journey
By Jennifer Probst I’ve been writing for thirty-five years. I started when I was twelve years old. For the past decade, I’ve written full-time. I’ve hit bestseller lists, made seven figures, and lived the dream I had as a kid. I’ve also been fired. I’ve been broke. I’ve had books tank and been rejected by […]
The Disturbing Effects of Trauma and Intergenerational Trauma As Portrayed in the Novel Klara’s Truth
By Susan Weissbach In my novel, Klara’s Truth, I explore the effects of both direct trauma and intergenerational trauma on the main characters’ lives. People generally understand the effects of direct trauma; however, the term “intergenerational trauma” was coined in the 1960s and 1970s when Holocaust survivors and their children were being evaluated through psychological […]
August: Reading With Rochelle Weinstein
Hello Readers & Friends, August is in the books, and before we get to actual books, I’d like to welcome new readers and share the hows and whys of this column. I read a ton. My preference is women’s fiction, literary, thrillers, and some historical fiction and memoirs. I’m always reading a physical book and […]
My Life’s Work: Words Make a Way Through Fire by Cyra Sweet Dumitru
Words Make a Way Through Fire is a memoir told through poetry and prose that chronicles my decades-long journey of transforming traumatic memory into a creative life. While the book includes my reckoning, which sometimes is rather raw, it is most about the healing influences of writing, swimming as meditation, and the intuited guidance of […]
Writing My Second Memoir
By Hendrika de Vries A Journey into the Sequel When I sat down to begin the writing of my second memoir, it felt as if I were returning to a place at once familiar and uncharted. The first memoir was born of urgency, an obligation to share my story, my experience of surviving oppression, hatred […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Julie Swanson interviews Mickey
In North of Tomboy, a semi-autobiographical novel set on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula in 1973, shy fourth-grader Jess Jezowski turns the tables on her mom when she’s given yet another girly baby doll for Christmas. This time, instead of ignoring or destroying it, she transforms it into the boy she’s always wanted to be—a brave, funny […]
Whatever Happened To Lori Lovely? by Sarah McCoy: Excerpt
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO LORI LOVELY? From New York Times bestselling author Sarah McCoy—a spellbinding novel based on a true story: a beautiful young movie star of Hollywood’s Golden Age gives up her bright career to become a nun. In 1969, twenty-three-year-old starlet Lori Lovely, the apple of Hollywood’s eye, shocks the world by ditching a promising film […]
The Shattered King, by Charlie N. Holmberg: Excerpt
The Shattered King A captive healer and a mysterious prince are drawn to each other in the midst of war and magic in a beguiling dark fantasy by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg. The kingdom of Cansere is on the brink of war. Young men are conscripted from their homes, and a royal decree […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Patricia Leavy, author of Cinematic Destinies
CINEMATIC DESTINIES For fans of Tessa Bailey and Hannah Grace, Cinematic Destinies is a feel-good, contemporary romance about a trio of adult children searching for love and beauty in the shadow of their parents’ legendary Hollywood fairy-tale romance. Legendary actor Finn Forrester and his wife philosopher Ella Sinclair Forrester met on the location shoot for Jean Mercier’s […]
L.S. Stratton: Authors Interviewing Characters
IN DEADLY COMPANY An incisive workplace satire and twisty murder mystery featuring a young executive assistant who realizes the peril in being diligently attentive to her boss’s whims. As the assistant of the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, Nicole Underwood has plenty of tasks on her to-do list—one of which is the blowout birthday […]
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