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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.

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How Stories Turned a Fiction Writer Into a Memoirist

How Stories Turned a Fiction Writer Into a Memoirist

During college, when my freshman year rhetoric teacher pulled me aside after class and asked if I’d ever considered a career in writing, my heart bloomed. I’d wanted to be an author since I was in the first grade and created a construction paper book complete with illustrations. Still, I didn’t know if I was […]

September 1, 2025 | By | Reply More
What’s your Writer Identity? How Your Writing Beliefs Impact Your Writing

What’s your Writer Identity? How Your Writing Beliefs Impact Your Writing

By Sarah E. Pearsall  What does it mean to be a writer? In my scholarly life, I study writer identity as it pertains to writing teachers, but much of what I research also applies to writers who are not teachers of writing. What the research tells us is that how you identify as a writer […]

August 29, 2025 | By | Reply More
Women and War: Letters from Ukraine to the Free World

Women and War: Letters from Ukraine to the Free World

By Aurélie Bros I became a researcher for a simple reason—to seek truth wherever it may be found. For over a decade, I devoted myself to studying energy geopolitics, with a particular focus on the post-Soviet region. I lived there, published, taught, and conducted my research. My life was intertwined with the region in countless […]

August 27, 2025 | By | Reply More
Inspiration Behind The Book By Khadijah VanBrakle

Inspiration Behind The Book By Khadijah VanBrakle

By Khadijah VanBrakle My Perfect Family is a story born out of love.As both an author and an avid reader, I’m drawn to books that include fraught mother/daughter relationships. My love of the Gilmore Girls inspired me to write my sophomore novel that follows a fractured, Black American Muslim family. I strongly believe that every […]

August 26, 2025 | By | Reply More
How a Therapy Horse Who Survived a Hurricane Inspired my New Children’s Book Series

How a Therapy Horse Who Survived a Hurricane Inspired my New Children’s Book Series

The inspiration for the first book in my Bella and Bird the Emotion Explorers series, Bella and Bird Explore Anger, came in the wake of Hurricane Ian; a Category 5 storm that devastated our island in Southwest Florida. Just three weeks earlier, I adopted my horse, Bella, from Southern California as my equine partner in […]

August 25, 2025 | By | Reply More
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: SUSIE TATE

AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: SUSIE TATE

THE OUTLIER by Susie Tate Vicky is an outlier. An outlier in society, an outlier in the business world; she’s even an outlier in her own family. She knows that people find her weird and annoying, and she’s resigned to her loneliness until she sees him. Having never been attracted to any man before, her new […]

August 23, 2025 | By | Reply More
A Duck is a Thing with Feathers

A Duck is a Thing with Feathers

  Emily Dickenson wrote the famous poem, Hope is a thing with feathers. As soon as the first book in the Simpato Mystery Series came out, I was asked, “When did you start writing humor?” My answer was, “I always did. But it wore a heavy overcoat.” Now it was time to take the coat […]

August 22, 2025 | By | Reply More
Imposter or Outsider?

Imposter or Outsider?

By Mary Camarillo Feeling like you don’t “fit in” to certain spaces, that any personal success is undeserved because it’s unearned, and to always be certain you’ll eventually be called out as a fraud are signs of Imposter Syndrome.  I’ve claimed this particular malady.  When my family moved to Southern California from North Carolina in […]

August 21, 2025 | By | Reply More
How a Scientist Wrote a Book about Wisdom

How a Scientist Wrote a Book about Wisdom

By Laura Gabayan In 2013, I noticed that my body started to develop random symptoms. I was a left-brain physician scientist committed to Western medicine and published extensively in academic journals. I believed in science and academia and felt that science explained everything. I thought that if I couldn’t see it, measure it, or could […]

August 21, 2025 | By | Reply More
Authors Interviewing Characters: Auralee Wallace

Authors Interviewing Characters: Auralee Wallace

The Late-Night Witches An enchantingly warm and funny novel about family, love lost and found, discovering who you are, and how difficult it is to slay a vampire from the beloved national bestselling author of the TikTok sensation In the Company of Witches. Cassie Beckett’s life is anything but magical. With a wild younger sister, three […]

August 19, 2025 | By | Reply More