Author Archive: Women Writers Women Books
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STANDBY, Beth McDonough, Excerpt
Beth McDonough is a storyteller forged in fire — an investigative reporter with a heart tuned to humanity. From breaking news to battling a silent illness, she’s lived chapters worthy of memoirs — and now is writing them. Whether it’s chasing leads or chasing healing, she’s driven to connect stories to souls. In her memoir, […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: TRACY WOLFF
IT HAPPENED ON A SUNDAY From #1 New York Times bestselling author Tracy Wolff comes a fierce, emotional romance about surviving the spotlight, outrunning your past, and choosing love when everything says you shouldn’t. They call her the Black Widow. A pop star. A tabloid tragedy. A girl who set the world on fire―and got burned in […]
There Is No Spoon
By Barbara Bos Hans Bos, my father, passed away on Monday, Sept 1st. I’ll miss him terribly, but he left behind art and plenty of inspiration. I wrote this piece about him last year. Dag lieverd…xox June 27, 2024 I’m not sure if I’m ready for this. I’ve just sat down in my window seat, […]
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 […]
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