Author Archive: Women Writers Women Books
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.
My Marriage Sabbatical: A Memoir of Solo Travel and Lasting Love by Leah Fisher: Excerpt
A vibrant, honest, and unique travel memoir for readers who think they’re too old to “eat, pray, love,” My Marriage Sabbatical captures marital therapist Leah Fisher’s journey to maintain her marriage without forfeiting her own independence. She wants to travel the world; he wants to keep working. At sixty, Leah Fisher is ready to Love, Honor, and […]
The Jet-Set Age Enters Historical Fiction
By Camille Di Maio Like most historical fiction authors, the idea for a story strikes when I’m not looking for it and plants itself in my imagination, growing taller than other notions until towering over the rest and demanding attention. This was the case when I first had the idea for COME FLY WITH ME. […]
Murder Without A Duck, Claudia H. Long, Excerpt
Sal, a recently divorced and temporarily suspended lawyer relocates to the small town of Simpato in Northern California to her parents’ old home, vacant since their deaths. Looking for privacy, a reprieve from her life, and a fresh start, instead she’s quickly immersed into the small-town gossip mill of characters who all know more about […]
Writers and Friendship: Co-authoring a Series
By Patricia Sands It has been fifteen (wonderful, for me) years since my first novel, The Bridge Club, was published. One thought I always express when asked about the best things I’ve learned in this writing world is this: the global writing community is collegial, supportive, encouraging, and all about friendship in the commitment to […]
ALL THE PRETTY SHOES: EXCERPT
All the Pretty Shoes A memoir by Marianne Klein, aka Marika Roth Marianne R. Klein, aka Marika Roth, was born in Budapest, Hungary. She lived in Paris, France after WWII, until she was transferred to Montreal, Canada for adoption. There she studied creative writing as well as psychology at Sir George William University in Montreal. […]
Reading with Rochelle Weinstein: December 2024
Hello Readers & Friends, Happy New Year! 2025. It’s still hard to believe. Is it just me or are the years flying by?! As we start on the first page of a blank book (some of us literally), I’m wondering if you make resolutions? Here’s mine: to get better at saying no to things that […]
The Taking, a New Novel by Dona Masi, Explores What it’s Like to Confront the Unknown
By Dona Masi Human history is filled with stories about encounters with strange beings from other planets. In these stories, human beings are confronted by the unknown in their experiences with out-of-the-world creatures, and it changes their lives forever. At least this is true according to the legends of unidentified flying objects and alien abductions, […]
Author’s Interviewing Characters: Shelley Blanton-Stroud
An Unlikely Prospect: A World War II Novel For fans of Kate Quinn’s The Rose Code and Jacqueline Winspear’s The Consequences of Fear comes a gripping novel, set in post–WWII San Francisco, about a young female newspaper publisher and a story that could change the course of her city’s future. In the jubilant aftermath of Japan’s surrender in World […]
Launch Diaries: Asking for Author Blurbs
I once believed the hardest part of becoming an author was querying the novel—which is like believing parenting can’t possibly get tougher than during the infant stage. (Insert maniacal laughter of parents with teenagers and authors asking for endorsements here.) Before my own publishing journey, I noticed jacket quotes on books, I just never considered how they […]
RIP Villager J
By Barbara Bos Villager J and I always saluted when we encountered each other, backs straight, heels clicking. I’m not sure who started it. I think I did. It became our inside joke. Today I’m going to salute him one last time but he won’t salute me back because he’s inside a coffin and it’s […]
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