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7 Novels Set in America’s National Parks

Many of us got rather tired of the same four walls during these past two years. No matter how much we organized, redecorated, hygged and hibernated, nothing quite satisfied the growing need to break free and get outside. That need, over time, may have morphed into quite the monster.  A…
Judy Moreno
December 14, 2021
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How Modern Research and Fiction Illuminate Family Legacy

Family legacy has long captivated our imagination, whether in the form of domestic thrillers like The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell; classic stage plays like Shakespeare’s Hamlet; sweeping historical epics like Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex; or intimate personal narratives like Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. From hidden betrayals to whispered curses,…
Daco S Auffenorde
July 1, 2025
FictionListicles

Shining Through the Struggle

This month, WFWA is excited to celebrate the diamonds in the rough. We are spotlighting characters who encounter challenges and emerge stronger because of them. Sometimes the challenge is external — war, political upheaval, family dynamics. Sometimes it is internal — vengeance, fears, regrets. Sometimes it is a combination of…
Women's Fiction Writers Association
June 25, 2025
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6 Books That Helped Me Get Into the Mind of a Killer

In No Lie Lasts Forever, a retired serial killer coaxes a disgraced journalist into finding the imposter trading on his name. I never thought I would write a “serial killer novel,” but when an idea clamps its teeth down and won’t let go, well, you succumb and start doing your…
Mark Stevens
June 2, 2025
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Coastal Noir: Santa Cruz as a Character

I was twenty-two the first time I saw the ocean. To my utter shock, I discovered that the Pacific was ice cold beneath the blazing sun and bobbing with blobs of tar leaking from oil pumps off the Santa Barbara shore. Still, it was undeniably beautiful, both in cold reality…
Victoria Helen Stone
June 3, 2025
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Because Motherhood isn’t Always Flowers and Breakfast in Bed

Mother’s Day usually shows up dipped in pastels and wrapped in performative gratitude, but motherhood? That’s another beast entirely. It’s brutal. It’s sacred. It’s messy, fractured, feral. And if Sigmund Freud taught us anything (besides the fact that therapy is expensive for a reason), it’s that the mother-child bond is…
BookTrib
May 9, 2025
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Where the Writer Ends and the Story Begins

It’s the most paradoxical idea of all. Somehow, it’s both the most tempting and the most potentially disastrous. Because if we’re supposed to “write what you love” and “write what you fear,” all of us have those same passions and apprehensions about the same thing: writing! So what could be…
Hank Phillippi Ryan
May 23, 2025