feature Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/tag/feature/ Wed, 09 Aug 2023 20:59:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Authors Interviewing Characters: Pim Wangtechewat https://booksbywomen.org/authors-interviewing-characters-pim-wangtechewat/ https://booksbywomen.org/authors-interviewing-characters-pim-wangtechewat/#respond Tue, 22 Aug 2023 08:41:59 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=45766 The Wang family are hiding a secret – they all have the ability to time travel. When parents Joshua and Lily depart for the past and never return, their children Tommy and Eva are forced to deal with their grief alone. Eva might be trying to find her place in the present, but Tommy is pulled further […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/authors-interviewing-characters-pim-wangtechewat/feed/ 0 45766 Exploding Family Land-Mines https://booksbywomen.org/exploding-family-land-mines/ https://booksbywomen.org/exploding-family-land-mines/#respond Sun, 02 Apr 2023 07:30:01 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=43572 Exploding family land-mines Czeslaw Milosz, the great poet, said, “When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.” Gary Shteyngart added, “If the family isn’t finished, then the writer is.” When I set out to write Our Lying Kin, it was intended specifically to be the second book in what is becoming […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/exploding-family-land-mines/feed/ 0 43572 Give the Most Powerful Gift of All: Books! Heather Levy https://booksbywomen.org/give-the-most-powerful-gift-of-all-books-heather-levy/ https://booksbywomen.org/give-the-most-powerful-gift-of-all-books-heather-levy/#respond Thu, 02 Dec 2021 08:19:17 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=37594 Give the Most Powerful Gift of All: Books! Heather Levy It’s been 37 years, but I still remember the first book anyone ever gifted me. I was in kindergarten, and my teacher, always effervescent in her enthusiasm for reading, gave each of her students a book during our classroom holiday party. I recall staring at […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/give-the-most-powerful-gift-of-all-books-heather-levy/feed/ 0 37594 AUTHORS INTERVIEWING THEIR CHARACTERS: Eliza Graham author of The Lines We Leave Behind https://booksbywomen.org/authors-interviewing-their-characters-eliza-graham-author-of-the-lines-we-leave-behind/ https://booksbywomen.org/authors-interviewing-their-characters-eliza-graham-author-of-the-lines-we-leave-behind/#respond Wed, 31 Oct 2018 09:22:31 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=24653 AUTHORS INTERVIEWING THEIR CHARACTERS: Eliza Graham author of The Lines We Leave Behind Interview with Maud Knight on board a Halifax bomber heading for Yugoslavia, March 1944. Why are you shivering, Maud?   I’m flying out to carry out an operation with the Partisans. It’s cold in this Halifax — it’s a military aircraft with […]

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