Author Archive: Women Writers Women Books
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Too Good to Get Married: The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen
By Bonnie Yochelson In 1987, I accepted a job as Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Museum of the City of New York. I had worked in print rooms for several years and earned a PhD in modern art history. Now I had full responsibility for a remarkable collection that needed a lot of […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Lisa F. Rosenberg
Fine, I’m a Terrible Person Fine, I’m a Terrible Person is a funny, heart wrenching adult mother daughter story. It begins when 73-year-old, worn out, former beauty, Aurora Hmans Feldenburg, a hapless, perpetually broke, eccentric, divorcee living in the wealthy enclave of Marin County in Northern California, is wakened by a phone call informing her […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Shirley Russak Wachtel
The Baker of Lost Memories From the author of A Castle in Brooklyn comes an epic novel spanning decades about the broken bonds of family, memories of war, and redemption and hope in the face of heartbreaking loss. Growing up in 1960s Brooklyn, Lena wants to be a baker just like her mother was back in Poland […]
Pamela N. Harris Interviews Naomi Henry and Kylie Brooks from This Town is on Fire
Pamela N. Harris Interviews Naomi Henry and Kylie Brooks from This Town is on Fire THIS TOWN IS ON FIRE Sharply written, this YA drama tells the story of what happens when the latest internet “Karen” happens to be your best friend. A lot is up in the air in Naomi Henry’s life: her spot […]
On Writing Mrs. McPhealy’s American
by Claire R.McDougall “Every village has its idiot. Locharbert in Scotland had three.” This is the opening line of my novel “Mrs. McPhealy’s American,” and I think in those couple of lines the tenor of the book is set. I grew up in Scotland in a wee town like Locharbert, and then, like Steinbeck did […]
Telling the Bees: How a Social Media Post, an Ancient Tradition, and Magical Realism Inspired My New Novel, Bees in June
By Elizabeth Parman A few years ago I was scrolling social media when a post from a friend caught my eye. Bees Attend Keeper’s Funeral read the newspaper clipping from the June 4, 1956 Danville Bee. The article went on to explain that a beekeeper from the Berkshire mountains, John Zepka, was buried in a […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Christine Stringer
Charity Trickett is Not So Glamorous Bridget Jones fans will fall hard for this based-on-a-true-story, behind-the-scenes tale of a young woman’s calamitous adventures trying to break into the movie industry in 1990s Hollywood. Hollywood, 1997. When Charity Trickett moves to LA to assist the director of the biggest blockbuster film of the year, she quickly […]
The English Masterpiece, by Katherine Reay: Excerpt
The English Masterpiece “Art . . . London . . . Seventies Glam . . . Yesss, please. The English Masterpiece by Katherine Reay has ALL the goodies–especially for historical fiction lovers and art aficionados . . . Buckle your seatbelt as all hell breaks loose.” –Lisa Barr, New York Times bestselling author of The Goddess of Warsaw Set in […]
Searching for Home Between Laughs, Deadlines, and the 1 Train
By Sara Hamdan I didn’t set out to write a novel. Not at the start. My first piece for The New York Times was about the rise of stand-up comedy in the Middle East. I was on assignment in Dubai, wearing my journalist hat—sleuthing out the funniest voices across the region, asking serious questions like, […]
Snark Comes to Spark by Ellen Notbohm
As I wake this morning after another night of badly broken sleep, I see my pencils sitting there on the nightstand in the half-light, their points dulled from the last time I used them. Which was—when? My weary thought is, I can’t write this morning. My pencils are dull. My pencils are pointless, literally and figuratively. […]
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