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 post Why I Didn’t Grieve My Sister’s Death appeared first on Women Writers, Women's Books.| Women Writers, Women's Books
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 […] The post The Louvre Heist: When Life Imitates Art appeared first on Women Writers, Women's Books.| Women Writers, Women's Books
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 […] The post Framing Fear — Finding Horror in the Everyday appeared first on Women Writers, Women's Books.| Women Writers, Women's Books
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 […] The post On Writing Sophia Starr and a Dog to Love appeared first on Women Writers, Women's Books.| Women Writers, Women's Books
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 […] The post Trilina Pucci Interviews her Character Goldie, from her Book ONE KILLER NIGHT appeared first on Women Writers, Women's...| Women Writers, Women's Books
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 […] The post On Writing Scabmuggers appeared first on Women Writers, Women's Books.| Women Writers, Women's Books
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 […] The post Love Works: Writing a Book at the Crossroads of Business and Humanity By Kelly Hall appeared first on Women Writers, Women's Books.| Women Writers, Women's Books
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 […] The post For the Love of Women in History appeared first on Women Writers, Women's Books.| Women Writers, Women's Books
By Alex Poppe Hanging onto the Land Cruiser’s roof rack with my left hand, I let go with my right, twisting to take photos of the stampede of children chasing us. Riding the back bumper evoked the exhilarated invincibility of youth. This is why I came here, I thought. This is wh—the humanitarian aid truck […] The post Choose Adventure over Convention. Then Write about It appeared first on Women Writers, Women's Books.| Women Writers, Women's Books
Connie Tucker from The First to Die Connie Tucker, a free-spirited beach bartender, has been estranged from her family in New Jersey ever since her actress mother, Simone, disappeared one night during a violent storm at the theatre where she was rehearsing. Uncontrollable and in a rage at the loss of her parent, fifteen-year-old Connie […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
Of Prophecies and Pomegranates In Kraven’s spicy, Greek mythology retelling, Persephone, Goddess of Spring, struggles to meet the impossible demands of her overbearing, manipulative mother, Demeter. Sequestered to the Upper Realm, far from the politics and intrigues of Olympus, Persephone begins to crack under the pressure, sure that she will never be enough. But the […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
By Alexandra Addams As a mid-life, female novelist with a completed manuscript clutched in your sweaty hand, you face many challenges to get that book out in the world. You took your sweet time with the writing and now you love it. Then you edited the darn thing for umpteenth revisions until finally you were […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
A Memoirist Shares by Renee Gilmore The other night, I found myself watching a Netflix documentary about Pamela Anderson. Why? I’m not exactly sure. I’ll admit—I had my own assumptions about her. I imagined her life, filled with wealth and ease, sunshine and fresh-squeezed juices. Maybe that’s true, maybe not. It makes me wince, saying […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
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The Betrayal Angelette Arabella has spent her life in the shadow of the man the nation calls a hero—her father, Valerius, the revered leader of Libertis. To the world, he’s a savior. To her, he’s simply “Dad.” But when a staged kidnapping spirals into something far more dangerous, Angelette is forced to face the truth: […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
By Shanna Hatfield Books have been a wonderful source of adventure for as long as I can remember. My mother shared her love of books with me, reading to me most every night as a young child. When I was old enough to read the books myself, my favorite stories were those that brought the […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
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By Melissa Meszaros Internet dating should not exist without a relationship jail. If you fail to comply with who you say you are, there should be consequences, a fraudulent misrepresentation suit, maybe. Technology upgrades, but lies stay the same. I work in public relations, a polishing job. I can take anyone’s half-formed thought and spin […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
Journalist Caroline McGhie got to explore Victorian attitudes to women’s rights, sexual freedom, religion, art and pornography when writing her debut novel The Sitter. But has anything changed since 1900? How a woman copes after she has been taken advantage of has long been a subject of interest for writers of women’s fiction. More recently […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
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By Leslie Kain In the middle of stressful times, do you read escapist novels? Or stories with characters you can’t stop thinking about, stories that pull you in and won’t let you go? In 2021, a book critic declared the “trauma plot” was dead, suggesting it’s a trope that reduces characters to “a set of […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
As with many writers, I read voraciously as a kid, particularly Nancy Drew mysteries. I even made my own little editions with crayon-drawn covers and stories bound with staples. In a time where women’s career choices were narrowly defined and did not include mystery/thriller writer, I became an educator and later an administrator, both interesting […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
A FAMILY OF GOOD WOMEN Imogene Good finds herself wrestling with this question when, still grieving her mother’s death, she abandons a promising teaching career to open a boarding house in the near-lawless oil boomtown of Borger, Texas. Alone. The business thrives, love arrives in the form of mysterious Texas Ranger, and Imogene takes in […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
By Anusia Gillespie At 29, I quit my law firm job with six-figure debt and no backup plan. Something had shifted. A meditation as part of a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training program cracked something open in me, like a champagne cork popping, and there was no going back. It was as if I’d glimpsed behind […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
RESTITUTION As children in Central Illinois, Kate and Martin were never told much about their mother’s childhood in East Germany. And they rarely asked questions. Decades later in 1989, when the Berlin Wall falls, Kate and Martin are faced with a difficult decision: Should they try to reclaim the house in East Germany from which their grandparents fled […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
HELLO WIFE Single, unfulfilled and well into middle age, long-troubled Charlotte Lansing desperately reaches for love and acceptance. When she announces her engagement to an unemployed morphine addict, her family falls into a tailspin. Her mother is determined to prevent disaster, her father seeks to mend the growing chasm, and her sister stubbornly hopes that […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
Margie Goldsmith, author of “Becoming a Badass: From Fearful to Fierce.” Covid hit. Most of my magazine assignments were experiential travel stories, but with all travel cancelled, now would be the perfect time to write a memoir. Yet, every famous actor, film star and rock star was writing their life story. Who was I? And […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
by Diane Hartman When I began my memoir, Getting Lost On My Way: Self-Discovery on Ireland’s Backroads, many years ago, I envisioned it as being a book of essays weaved together by a common thread –my four solo trips to Ireland over a period of seven years. I kept a journal during my travels and […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
When I began this story, I thought it would be my fifth rather than sixth book. But as other authors know to happen, life interrupted. I did know that Celia, a character from my “novel in stories” Humanity’s Grace, had more in her. And maybe character Paul did too? This felt like my compulsion to […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
By Heather Snograss Music has a way of weaving its way through all of our lives like thread. Some may use it as background noise while they are studying, working, or even to fall asleep. I am a person who retains what I read with music in the background and that is one reason I like […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
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Julia Thacker I was in the airport again, running for the gate to catch the first thing smoking – flying – from Boston to Dayton, Ohio. My father had fallen again, had been rushed by ambulance from his assisted living facility to hospital. Our troubled past hardly mattered. He was helpless. I was next of […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
