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Apr 7, 2024 | 
booksbywomen.org | Women's Books |Nora Gold
Writing About Women In Sickness and In HealthBy Nora GoldSince the publication on March 1st of my new book, In Sickness and In Health/Yom Kippur in a Gym (two novellas), many people have asked me why I chose to write one of the novellas about sickness. I point out to them that this novella is not only about sickness; it is also, as the title indicates, about health.
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Mar 17, 2024 | 
booksbywomen.org | Women's Books |Jennifer Moorman
Embracing Magic By Jennifer MoormanMagic has long been used in fictional stories, often as a plot device to move the characters from here to there, to solve problems that are otherwise unsolvable, and to explain why and how events unfold in a particular story. Often magic is used in a way that’s not defined, meaning magic doesn’t have a limit and characters can do whatever the plot requires of them, no matter what. For example, a character approaches a locked door.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
booksbywomen.org | Women's Books |Aurora Ascher
By Aurora AscherThis is the story of how I discovered my feminism through reading romance novels, and how that discovery ultimately led me to make writing them my career. I still remember when I read my first romance. The year I moved to Montreal, I got a job at a raw juice store in an industrial part of the city. Since the business was mostly based on deliveries rather than in-store purchases, I had a lot of spare time. Too much.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
booksbywomen.org | K.T. Carlisle |Women's Books
Sometimes life throws you a curve ball—like realizing you never set your alarm clock after you’re already an hour late for your appointment. Other times, it pulls the rug completely out from under you, leaving you scrambling for reason where none exists. This is how I felt when I lost my father. It’s hard for me to believe that someone as exuberant and full of light as my dad was could be extinguished from the earth so early on in his life.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
booksbywomen.org | Women's Books
By Yvonne RedigerI began as a writer creating short stories when I was thirteen. Fan fiction mostly, from various television shows I liked such as Star Trek. Also, some popular shows from back in the day I blush about now as they do not hold up over the course of time, but not much does unless it has good writing. In 2015 I first began thinking about what I’d do with myself after I retired from analyst work in the information technology world. It was an easy choice, I wanted to write full time.
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Dec 17, 2023 | 
booksbywomen.org | Women's Books |Emily Bleeker
My Grandmother’s SecretBy: Emily BleekerWhen I was seventeen, my paternal grandmother made the move from warm and sunny Pensacola Florida to the freezing winters of the suburbs of Chicago. Our two-bedroom townhome was already packed to the brim with our family of six. When Grandma Elizabeth moved in we turned our one-car garage into a bedroom by putting down throw rugs, plugging in space heaters, and placing mattresses against the wall-sized mechanical door.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
booksbywomen.org | Women's Books |Victoria Dowd
A Series of Unfortunate DeathsBy Victoria DowdMurder Most Cold is the fifth book in the Smart Woman’s mystery series. The books follow the Smart women who are Ursula Smart, our rather unreliable narrator; Pandora Smart, her mother; Aunt Charlotte; and, of course, Bridget with her bizarre menagerie of pets. The books are classic whodunnits updated with lots of dark humour.
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
booksbywomen.org | Women's Books
I love to read series. As a kid, I read The Bobbsey Twins and Laura Ingalls Wilder, then Nancy Drew and Cherry Ames. As an adult, I’m always up for the newest Lady Darby or Lady Emily historical mystery, a Kate Burkholder thriller, or one of Suzanne Brockmann’s Troubleshooter books. Truth be told, I’ve got at least twelve series going. In a series, authors are able to dig deep, deep, deep into their characters, letting them evolve from book to book.
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
booksbywomen.org | Women's Books
WHAT I LEARNED BY LIVING ELSEWHEREThe words came to me right after we moved back to the US from Geneva; a title well before there was even a book. My husband and I had been living abroad for 25 years off and on, in east and west Africa and in Europe. In a moment of calm between unpacking boxes in our new home in Seattle, when I finally had a desk to sit and write, I pondered where to begin again. The thought of digging into another rewrite of my unpublished novels didn’t thrill me.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
booksbywomen.org | Women's Books
When people hear that I’m a writer, many ask what my process is. It’s a good question and a fair one, and is debated back and forth in writing groups, online, and wherever creatives dwell. Books have been written on it. Thousands of words have been flung into the air, debating the best process for writing a book. So, as the author of four books (my debut, The Finery, is being released on 25th August 2023!), here’s my personal motto on the subject…If you don’t write, nothing will change. There it is.
