Review Team
Susan Wittig Albert
Co-Editor
"SuperNova" Reviewer
In 1985, I left my career as a university professor and administrator and began working fulltime as a novelist and freelance writer. For the past 16 years, I've written the China Bayles herbal mysteries, and for the past five, a series of historical fantasies called The Cottage Tales, featuring Beatrix Potter. With my husband, Bill Albert, writing as Robin Paige, I coauthored a dozen historical mysteries set in Victorian-Edwardian England and over sixty books for young readers. I have also edited two anthologies for the Story Circle Network: With Courage and Common Sense (2004) and What Wildness Is This: Women Write about the Southwest (2007).
I've also written nonfiction. In 1992, I published Work of Her Own , a study of women who left their careers, and in 1997, Writing From Life: Telling Your Soul's Story , for women memoirists. That book led to the founding of the Story Circle Network, which encourages women to write about their lives. I helped to create the first edition of the Story Circle Book Review website and am delighted to be involved in its relaunch. You can find out more about my work at my website and get a look into the life of a working writer by reading my blog . Bill and I have lived in the Texas Hill Country for over twenty years, with a varying assortment of cows, sheep, geese, ducks, chickens, pigs, dogs, and cats.
Alexander, Kelly and Cynthia Harris. Hometown Appetites: The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer Who Chronicled How America Ate
Alter, Judy. Cooking My Way through Life with Kids and Books
Astyk, Sharon. Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front
Astyk, Sharon. Independence Days: A Guide to Sustainable Food Storage and Preservation
Atwood, Margaret. Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
Baldwin, Christina. interview
Barker, Barbara. Container Gardening for Health
Bodman, Karna Small. Gambit
Buyer, Laurie Wagner. Spring's Edge: A Ranch Wife's Chronicles
Buyer, Laurie Wagner. When I Came West
Cariou, Heather. interview
Carpenter, Liz. Getting Better All the Time
Carpenter, Liz. Ruffles and Flourishes: The Warm and Tender Story of a Simple Girl Who Found Adventure in the White House
Carpenter, Liz. Unplanned Parenthood: The Confessions of a Seventy-Something Surrogate Mother
Chittister, Joan. The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully
Clark, Marilyn Snethen, Barbara Snethen Leonard, Carol Snethen Reed. Outside the Fence: Stories of an Army Officer's Kids and WWII POW Camps
Conway, Jill Ker. When Memory Speaks: Reflections on Autobiography
Counihan, Carole M. A Tortilla is Like Life: Food and Culture in the San Luis Valley of Colorado
Counihan, Carol. interview
Daum, Meghan. Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House
De La Peña, Carolyn. Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda
Deppe, Carol. The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
DeSalvo, Louise. Vertigo ; Writing as a Way of Healing
Diehn, Gwen. Real Life Journals: Designing & Using Handmade Books
Drake, Barbara. interview
Ehrlich, Elizabeth. Miriam's Kitchen
Ehrlich, Gretel. A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck by Lightning
Flammang, Janet A. The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society
Flatau, Susie Kelly. Counter Culture Texas
Flatau, Susie Kelly. interview
Freidberg, Susanne. Fresh: A Perishable History
Garfield, Charles, Cindy Spring, Sedonia Cahill. Wisdom Circles: A Guide to Self-Discovery and Community Building in Small Groups
Goldberg, Bonni. Room to Write: Daily Invitations to a Writer's Life
Gussow, Joan Dye. Growing, Older: A Chronicle of Death, Life, and Vegetables
Harman, Patricia. Arms Wide Open: A Midwife's Journey
Harman, Patricia. The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife's Memoir
Harman, Patricia. interview
Hasselstrom, Linda M. Between Grass and Sky: Where I Live and Work
Hasselstrom, Linda M. No Place Like Home: Notes from a Western Life
Hasselstrom, Linda M., Gaydell Collier, and Nancy Curtis. Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West
Hasselstrom, Linda. interview
Hayes, Shannon. Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity From a Consumer Culture
Heyhoe, Kate. Cooking Green: Reducing Your Carbon Footprint in the Kitchen
Holstein, Dr. Barbara Becker. The Enchanted Self: A Positive Therapy
Holstein, Barbara Becker. interview
Hopper, Kippra D. and Laurie J. Churchill. Art of West Texas Women: A Celebration
Horan, Nancy. Loving Frank
Howard-Oglesby, Pamela and Brenda L. Roberts. Savannah's Black "First Ladies," Vol. 1: The Past, Present, and Future
Hudson, Kathleen. Women in Texas Music: Stories and Songs
Isleib, Roberta. interview
King, Sorrel. interview
King, Ursula. The Search for Spirituality: Our Global Quest for a Spiritual Life
LaConte, Ellen. Life Rules: Why so much is going wrong everywhere at once and how Life teaches us to fix it
Lappé, Anna. Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It
Lear, Linda. Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
Legler, Gretchen. On the Ice: An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Lindbergh, Reeve. Forward from Here: Leaving Middle Age—and Other Unexpected Adventures
Linnea, Ann. Deep Water Passage: A Spiritual Journey at Midlife
Linnea, Ann. interview
Linzer, Deborah Hansen. Cameo Life Stories: Writing Guide for Everywoman
Lopez, Rhonda Lashley. Don't Make Me Go to Town: Ranchwomen of the Texas Hill Country
Lovejoy, Sharon. Toad Cottages & Shooting Stars: Grandma's Bag of Tricks
Lydon, Susan Gordon. The Knitting Sutra: Thoughts on Handcrafts, Nature and Spirit
Mairs, Nancy. A Dynamic God: Living an Unconventional Catholic Faith
Mann, Reva. The Rabbi's Daughter
McDonnell, Jane Taylor. Living to Tell the Tale
Merrill, C.S. Weekends with O'Keeffe
Miller, Susan Cummins, editor. A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier
Miller, Susan Cummins. interview
Morgan, Deborah. interview
Norris, Gunilla. Journeying in Place: Reflections from a Country Garden
Norris, Gunilla. Simple Ways: Towards the Sacred
Patterson, Jamie. interview
Perry, Susan K., Ph.D. Writing In Flow: Keys to Enhanced Creativity
Phillips, EJ. Woman: What She Has Done With Where She Has Been
Raab, Diana M. Dear Anaïs: My Life in Poems for You
Raab, Diana M. Regina's Closet: Finding My Grandmother's Secret Journal
Raday, Sophia. Love in Condition Yellow: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage
Ralston, Jeannie. interview
Rehak, Melanie. Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
Reichl, Ruth. Tender at the Bone
Remmert, Donna. interview
Rose, Phyllis. The Norton Book of Women's Lives
Rowe, Kathleen. The Unruly Woman: Gender and the Genres of Laughter
Schlosser, Katherine K., editor. The Herb Society of America's Essential Guide to Growing and Using Herbs
Scot, Barbara J. Prairie Reunion
Seale, Jan. interview
Segalove, Ilene and Paul Bob Velick. List Your Self: Listmaking as the Way to Self-Discovery
Shetterly, Susan Hand. Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town
Spikes, Nellie Witt, ed. Geoff Cunfer. As a Farm Woman Thinks: Life and Land on the Llano Estacado, 1890-1960
Stout, Janis P. This Last House: A Retirement Memoir
Strasser, Judith. Black Eye: Escaping a Marriage, Writing a Life
Stuever, Mary. The Forester's Log: Musings From the Woods
Stuever, Mary. interview
Terzian, Mary. The Immigrants' Daughter: A Private Battle to Earn the Right to Self-Actualization
Tweit, Susan J. Walking Nature Home: A Life's Journey
Tweit, Susan J. interview
Van Gelder, Leslie. Weaving a Way Home: A Personal Journey Exploring Place and Story
Weber, Lauren. In Cheap We Trust: The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue
Weimer, Joan. Awestruck: A Skeptic's Pilgrimage
Wheeler, Robin. Food Security for the Faint of Heart: Keeping Your Larder Full in Lean Times
Wildwind, Sharon Grant. Dreams that Blister Sleep: A Nurse in Vietnam
Woodman, Marion. Leaving My Father's House: A Journey to Conscious Femininity
Yost, Paula Stallings and Pat McNees, editors. My Words are Gonna Linger: The Art of Personal History
Yost, Paula Stallings. interview
Yost, Paula Stallings. interview
Young, Carrie. Nothing to Do but Stay: My Pioneer Mother
Zackheim, Victoria, editor. For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance
Ziedrich, Linda. The Joy of Pickling
Ziegelman, Jane. 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement
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