Category: On Writing
DANCING IN THE NARROWS: An Excerpt
May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month. Anna Penenberg’s new book, Dancing in the Narrows, is about her journey to self-discovery as the mother of a Lyme Disease patient. “Dancing in the Narrows” chronicles a mother and daughter’s multiyear journey through illness and trauma. At sixteen, Anna’s youngest daughter, Dana, is stricken with a mysterious debilitating condition, […]
Q and A With Dete Meserve
Dete Meserve is an accomplished creator and producer of films and award-winning television shows as well as a best-selling and award-winning novelist. Meserve adapted her first novel, Good Sam, into a screenplay and produced it as a Netflix Original Film starring Tiya Sircar (The Good Place). The film was released worldwide in May 2019. Her […]
It’s Been Quite A Process
By Kimberly Dredger Last week, I held in my hands something precious, unbelievable. My first—likely only— novel. What a kick! It’s been quite a journey. The writing of it was magic. Instead of sleep, I’d lie in bed writing passages in my head, and then arise in the wee hours, and type madly. The characters […]
The Background to Writing White Snake Diary: Exploring Self-Inscribers
By Jane P. Perry I am an ethnographer. I write through the words, sounds, actions and ephemera of others. When I found a collection of photos chronicling milestones in one girl’s life, I became intrigued with the idea of telling a Coming of Age story using memorabilia and recollections: diary entries, vignettes sparked by snapshots, […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING THEIR CHARACTERS: Ellen Meeropol
Interviewing the sisters in Her Sister’s Tattoo On a hot August day in 1968, sisters Rosa and Esther march against the war in Vietnam with thousands of others through downtown Detroit. When they hear that mounted police are beating protesters a few blocks away, they hurry to help, to try to stop the violence. In […]
Broth from the Cauldron: A Wisdom Journey through Everyday Magic: an Excerpt
How does a Republican girl, raised in an agnostic scientific household, become a Pagan Priestess? Broth from the Cauldron: A Wisdom Journey Through Everyday Magic (May 12, She Writes Press) by Cerridwen Fallingstar shares profound insight in this charming and wholly unique memoir of meditations on topics such as perception, fear, anger, trauma, healing, magic and […]
Interview With Barbara Josselsohn
Barbara Josselsohn is a novelist and magazine writer. Her latest novel is THE LILAC HOUSE, is a WWWB recommended read! We are delighted to feature this interview with her. Tell us about your beginning, where are you from? I’m from Long Island, about 50 minutes east of New York City. Now I live in Westchester […]
Our Hundred Year Legacy
Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style—the iconic little black dress—and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The Queen of Paris, the new novel from award-winning author Pamela Binnings Ewen, vividly imagines the hidden life […]
The Hairbrush And The Shoe: Road To Publication
Road to Publication: The Hairbrush and the Shoe began as an account of a series of bizarre incidents that convinced me our 1875 house might also be home to a ghost. A hairbrush disappeared from a mantel and reappeared in a desk. Laundry was folded on a day no one was home. A cast iron […]
On Writing INVINCIBLE WOMEN and an excerpt of ISABEL ALLENDE interview
Israeli-American doctor Bilha Chesner Fish is the author of INVINCIBLE WOMEN: Conversations with 21 Inspiring and Successful American Immigrants. The book is a celebration of rich personal interviews with women who came to the United States—like Bilha did—as immigrants, who struggled against racism, sexism, and abuse to become role models in their adopted country. She […]
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