Author Archive: Women Writers Women Books
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Authors Interviewing Characters: Carla Malden
PLAYBACK 34-year-old Mari Caldwell is fiercely disappointed in herself. She’s done the one thing she always promised herself she would never do: raise her young daughter in a broken home, just as she had been raised. Professionally, making a living by photographing real estate has subsumed her dream of becoming a rock ‘n’ roll photographer. […]
Dani Alpert: On Writing
by Dani Alpert My debut memoir, The Girlfriend Mom, was published at the height of the pandemic. I had no interest in writing another book after that experience. For a few fleeting moments, I did think about writing a follow-up, The Ex-Girlfriend Mom, because so much had happened since the original. But I was over […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Julia London
New York Times bestselling author Julia London returns with a story about forgiveness and second chances perfect for fans of The Wedding People and The Husbands. After forty-two years, Lorna Lott is ready to learn where she’s going with her life–even if it means revisiting all the places she wishes she hadn’t been. It’ll be fine. Probably. Maybe. Lorna […]
When a Character Shows up in the Flesh
By Cheryl Grey Bostrom author of What the River Keeps — I arrived home to a friend rising from a chair in my home office. She laid an early reader’s copy of my newest novel What the River Keeps on my desk and squared her heavy frame to mine. “I have a bone to pick […]
Confessions of a Wannabe Harvey Girl – Juliette Fay
I first learned about Harvey Girls while doing research for one of my previous novels, City of Flickering Light. The story follows three friends who catch a train to Hollywood so they can try their luck as actors. It was a long trip, so I knew they had to eat. How did railroad passengers get […]
Unearthed: The Lies We Carry & The Truths They Bury, EXCERPT
Unearthed: The Lies We Carry & The Truths They Bury In this searing memoir, Chanchal Garg reveals the spiritual and sexual abuse that shattered her sense of self and forced her to question a life defined by duty and sacrifice. Raised as a devoted Indian daughter, she was taught never to question authority-until a transformative […]
So Your First Novel Just Got Published…Now What?
Your dream finally came true. You wrote a book, you found a publisher who loved it as much as you do, and now, your book is in your hands. You’re officially a published author. After the unboxing and the champagne, you sit back and wait for the royalties to roll in… And that’s where the […]
How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America by Dr. Chávez-Moreno: EXCERPT
Excerpted with permission from How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America by Laura C. Chávez-Moreno, October 2024, published by Harvard Education Press. On Friday, June 16, 2017, Amlie High School held its graduation ceremony. I had attended other high school graduations, including my own in Douglas, Arizona, a town bordering México, and five graduations […]
More Than Sales: How My Memoir Made Dreams Come True
By Debbie Russell I’ll always remember the not-so-sensitive comment the CEO of my hybrid publisher made when we were discussing which BISAC (Book Industry Standards and Communications) codes to assign to my book. “Memoir is the sludge circling the toilet bowl of book publishing.” A bit harsh for sure, but I’d received the same message […]
My Writing Journey by F. F. Mormanni
I recently had dinner with a screenwriting friend and we started talking about our earliest memories working on writing projects. As usual, I recounted writing my first fantasy novel as a teenager, in between practice sessions for concerts at Juilliard Pre-college and conservatory auditions. He reminisced about taking long walks as a child while listening […]
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