feautred Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/tag/feautred/ Wed, 16 Aug 2023 13:49:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Writing Tough Stuff: Five Tips to Make it Easier  https://booksbywomen.org/writing-tough-stuff-five-tips-to-make-it-easier/ https://booksbywomen.org/writing-tough-stuff-five-tips-to-make-it-easier/#respond Fri, 18 Aug 2023 05:55:34 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=45716 Writing Tough Stuff: Five Tips to Make it Easier  Last summer and winter I tried (and tried) to write a short memoir essay about a short stint of living and working in a London pub during the late 1980s. The opening scene of the essay, in which, on my very first night there, I wake […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/writing-tough-stuff-five-tips-to-make-it-easier/feed/ 0 45716 When Past and Present Collide: Novels with Dual-Timeline Narratives https://booksbywomen.org/when-past-and-present-collide-novels-with-dual-timeline-narratives/ https://booksbywomen.org/when-past-and-present-collide-novels-with-dual-timeline-narratives/#respond Thu, 09 Dec 2021 10:17:09 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=37726 When past and present collide: Novels with dual-timeline narratives by Ann Gosslin In life – and in fiction – I’ve long been intrigued by the effect of a difficult or traumatic childhood on an individual’s psyche and sense of self. It should come as no surprise that I am drawn not only to character-driven novels, […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/when-past-and-present-collide-novels-with-dual-timeline-narratives/feed/ 0 37726 Interview with Bryn Hammond and Laury Silvers https://booksbywomen.org/interview-with-bryn-hammond-and-laury-silvers/ https://booksbywomen.org/interview-with-bryn-hammond-and-laury-silvers/#respond Sat, 29 Feb 2020 09:58:50 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=29680 Julie Bozza interviewed women authors Bryn Hammond (Amgalant) and Laury Silvers (The Sufi Mysteries) about their historical fiction. One of the things their writing has in common is a vivid sense of their characters living in their own “present day”, rather than stuck in our past and perhaps limited by our hindsight. Julie has mostly written […]

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