Category: On Writing
Authors Interviewing Characters: Andrea Simon
By Andrea Simon DID YOU HAVE THE LIFE YOU WANTED Did You Have the Life You Wanted? spans the generations from 1968 to 2019, highlighting the late 1960s to 1970s when diverse female friends come of age against the turbulent backdrop of racially charged school strikes, the Stonewall Inn and Attica uprisings, and the nascent feminist movement. […]
Inspired By, Not About
By Barbara Viniar “…She opened the bag of chocolate kisses her mother had insisted on buying her…and somehow life did feel a little easier.” That must be where I get it from, I thought as I wrote yet another scene in which Fannie indulges her sweet tooth. And then I had to laugh at myself. […]
Why I Didn’t Grieve My Sister’s Death
By Mary Garden When my sister died, I didn’t cry. I didn’t feel heartbroken. I felt relief. It was August 2023. My sister Anna had just passed away. Instead of overwhelming sadness, I felt a quiet calm ‒ even a sense of safety. Grief isn’t always what people expect. Sometimes it’s mixed with anger, exhaustion, […]
The Louvre Heist: When Life Imitates Art
By Mailan Doquang There’s something uncanny about watching life echo art, more so when the reflection hits close to home. On 19 October 2025, just after 9:30 a.m., a brazen heist at the Louvre Museum in Paris proved that the line between fiction and reality is thinner than we like to think. The thieves struck the […]
Framing Fear — Finding Horror in the Everyday
by Melissa Leanne Owen As I sit at my desk writing this article, rain hammers against the windowpane. Outside, the wind is picking up. Trees sway, becoming more animated — as though trying to escape from the gathering darkness, chained by their own roots, unable to break free. That’s where I find my inspiration. In […]
On Writing Sophia Starr and a Dog to Love
It was around this time last year when I sat down toying with the idea of writing a book! I didn’t really have any idea how to start or even any notion of what the journey might entail. My family and I had been hosting various dogs to come and stay with us for their […]
Trilina Pucci Interviews her Character Goldie, from her Book ONE KILLER NIGHT
ONE KILLER NIGHT “Whip smart and hilarious! Pucci is well on her way to literary domination.” ―Abby Jimenez, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Just for the Summer. USA Today bestselling author Trilina Pucci cranks up the heat in this sexy slasher filled with dark family secrets, classic horror tropes, and banter as sharp as a deranged killer’s […]
On Writing Scabmuggers
By Yvonne Martinez “Someday Mija, you’ll learn the difference between a whore and a working woman.” The words my sex worker grandmother told me that shaped my life. It was 1950’s Salt Lake, I was seven years old, and she had just come back from organizing a labor action. Salt Lake tavern owners brought in […]
Love Works: Writing a Book at the Crossroads of Business and Humanity By Kelly Hall
By Kelly Hall When Books by Women offered the chance to share how my book came into the world, I paused to reflect on the strange, winding path that led me here. Writing Love Works was never on my career checklist. I was a business executive, not an author. Yet sometimes, a book chooses its writer. For me, that […]
For the Love of Women in History
By Alison Chambers I have always been a voracious reader, so much so that I wanted to write my own book. Like Dan Brown of The Da Vinci Code fame, who said something like ‘I thought I could do better’ when reading other author’s books, I knew at an early age that at least I […]
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