Author Archive: Kristin Rockaway

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Sex In Women’s Fiction, Part 3: Advice From The Experts

Sex In Women’s Fiction, Part 3: Advice From The Experts

Part 3 of our Sex In Women’s Fiction Series, Read part 2 HERE It’s surprisingly easy to write bad sex. In fact, cringeworthy sex scenes are so ubiquitous that the UK magazine, Literary Review, hands out an annual award to distinguish the somewhat awful from the truly terrible. According to their website, the purpose of […]

October 13, 2017 | By | Reply More
Sex In Women’s Fiction, Part 2: Sex Sells (Sometimes)

Sex In Women’s Fiction, Part 2: Sex Sells (Sometimes)

Part two of our Sex in Women’s Fiction series: Read Part One HERE Before we went out on submission with The Wild Woman’s Guide to Traveling the World, my agent, Jennifer Johnson-Blalock, asked me to make a few revisions. The goal was to make the book stronger and more saleable to readers and publishers alike. […]

October 6, 2017 | By | 1 Reply More
Sex In Women’s Fiction, Part One: Writing Sex

Sex In Women’s Fiction, Part One: Writing Sex

Part one of a three part series about Sex In Women’s Fiction I write stories about women – stories that chronicle the wonderful, harrowing, funny, mess, fabulous, and occasionally sordid details of their lives. And, inevitably, there comes a time in every manuscript when my main character decides that she’s going to have sex. Before […]

September 29, 2017 | By | Reply More
Courage, Take The Wheel

Courage, Take The Wheel

Starting Out I didn’t choose to be a writer. I think it’s that way with most writers; we emerge from the womb spinning stories and stringing together sentences. It’s something encoded in our DNA. When I was four years old, I wrote my first book, scribbled illegibly in dull pencil and bound with a stapler, […]

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