featued Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/tag/featued/ Wed, 29 Mar 2023 06:44:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Feeling Fraudulent: A Brown Woman Writes From a White Man’s Point of View https://booksbywomen.org/feeling-fraudulent-a-brown-woman-writes-from-a-white-mans-point-of-view/ https://booksbywomen.org/feeling-fraudulent-a-brown-woman-writes-from-a-white-mans-point-of-view/#respond Wed, 29 Mar 2023 05:56:35 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=43785 Feeling Fraudulent: A Brown Woman Writes From a White Man’s Point of View I’m a big fan of Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, Robert B. Parker’s Spenser, Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski, Kerry Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher and others. I’m also a big fan of Copenhagen, my adopted city where I lived for eleven years. So, I knew […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/feeling-fraudulent-a-brown-woman-writes-from-a-white-mans-point-of-view/feed/ 0 43785 Wild Ride: On Creating Writers In The Wild Retreats https://booksbywomen.org/wild-ride-on-creating-writers-in-the-wild-retreat/ https://booksbywomen.org/wild-ride-on-creating-writers-in-the-wild-retreat/#respond Wed, 18 Jan 2023 09:14:11 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=43102 Wild Ride What do you get when you put a group of writers in a room together? A whole lot of story-telling. What do you get when you take those same writers out in the wild? Pure creative synergy. I spent most of my life writing solo, crafting worlds and prospecting my life for inspiration […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/wild-ride-on-creating-writers-in-the-wild-retreat/feed/ 0 43102 The Show On The Road https://booksbywomen.org/the-show-on-the-road/ https://booksbywomen.org/the-show-on-the-road/#respond Sat, 13 Feb 2021 08:25:29 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=34288 The Beloved Children author Tina Jackson on how the women from Wide Open Writing are going to hit the road to bring writing where it’s needed In the late summer of 2018, I was wrestling with the manuscript that was to become my debut novel, The Beloved Children – a story of carny insiders in […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/the-show-on-the-road/feed/ 0 34288 Why My Novels are Filled with My Food Obsession and How Writing ‘Waisted’ Changed My Life https://booksbywomen.org/why-my-novels-are-filled-with-my-food-obsession-and-how-writing-waisted-changed-my-life/ https://booksbywomen.org/why-my-novels-are-filled-with-my-food-obsession-and-how-writing-waisted-changed-my-life/#respond Fri, 12 Apr 2019 04:22:22 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=26449 By Randy Susan Meyers I grew up in a family where food was considered the comforting evil or evil comfort—but never just comfort. Never just food. My mother—for whom dress size was the holy grail—watched every bite I took. When in a restaurant, first she’d not order what she wanted and then she’d steal bites from […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/why-my-novels-are-filled-with-my-food-obsession-and-how-writing-waisted-changed-my-life/feed/ 0 26449 Why I Write History https://booksbywomen.org/women-warriors-by-pamela-toler/ https://booksbywomen.org/women-warriors-by-pamela-toler/#respond Tue, 26 Feb 2019 07:38:16 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=25722   Like many history buffs, history first caught my imagination through stories. One of my favorite things to do when I was small was curl up next to my grandmother and ask her, “What did you do when you were a little girl?”   From there it was a short step to reading biographies about […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/women-warriors-by-pamela-toler/feed/ 0 25722 How Writing Changed My Life https://booksbywomen.org/hhow-writing-changed-my-life-by-iris-yang/ https://booksbywomen.org/hhow-writing-changed-my-life-by-iris-yang/#respond Thu, 09 Aug 2018 17:52:02 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=23470 Wings of a Flying Tiger is a heroic tale in which ordinary Chinese risked their lives to rescue and safeguard a downed American pilot in WWII in China. It is a work of fiction. But to me, a Chinese-American, it is also personal. My mother and grandma had lived in Nanking and escaped from the […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/hhow-writing-changed-my-life-by-iris-yang/feed/ 0 23470 When Public Speaking Goes Wrong https://booksbywomen.org/when-public-speaking-goes-wrong-by-erinna-mettler/ https://booksbywomen.org/when-public-speaking-goes-wrong-by-erinna-mettler/#respond Sat, 12 May 2018 05:35:11 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=22604 There has been a lot on social media lately about why women should accept invitations to public speaking events. As in all areas of society, it seems we are in the minority when it comes to standing on the soap box. A quick search on Google shows that there are many more male public speakers […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/when-public-speaking-goes-wrong-by-erinna-mettler/feed/ 0 22604 The Possibilities are Limitless https://booksbywomen.org/the-possibilities-are-limitless-by-rachel-mc-grath/ https://booksbywomen.org/the-possibilities-are-limitless-by-rachel-mc-grath/#respond Sun, 10 Sep 2017 13:35:00 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=20314 Being an author to me is more than just getting published and hitting the bestseller list. For me, it is about reaching people through my stories, either fiction or non-fiction; knowing that somewhere, someone is touched by my words as they come to life and spark another’s imagination. The struggle for many authors to make […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/the-possibilities-are-limitless-by-rachel-mc-grath/feed/ 0 20314 The Appeal of Flawed Characters https://booksbywomen.org/the-appeal-of-flawed-characters-lorraine-zago-rosenthal/ https://booksbywomen.org/the-appeal-of-flawed-characters-lorraine-zago-rosenthal/#respond Sun, 16 Oct 2016 12:06:08 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=16636 To effectively create fictional characters, it is necessary to be an observer. Writers study people—their physical appearance, mannerisms, speech patterns, personalities, life experiences, motivations, and resulting actions. A writer can be inspired by a particular individual, or he/she might combine aspects of several people to create one character. As book-readers and TV-and-film viewers, we crave […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/the-appeal-of-flawed-characters-lorraine-zago-rosenthal/feed/ 0 16636 I Used to be a Writer https://booksbywomen.org/i-used-to-be-a-writer/ https://booksbywomen.org/i-used-to-be-a-writer/#comments Sun, 03 Jul 2016 13:37:22 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15898 “How about I meet you up at the…ah…the…office at the front? You know, the place with the desk?” My husband responds quickly and kindly. “The lobby?” “Well, sure,” I respond, “but there’s another word I’m thinking of here.” We’ve danced this dance before and he knows I’m not going to drop it until the word […]

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