Category: US American Women Writers
Casting the Writer’s Spell
In my creative writing courses, I wave my magic pencil over my students and declare them to be writers—at least for the duration of the semester. After that, I say, it’s up to them to take over the spell. They generally giggle and roll their eyes (they’re college students after all), but I think it […]
SEO: A Strategy For Authors’ Websites
Through the creation of my own website and assisting fellow authors to create their own, I have discovered one basic strategy that can help bring readers to your site. Many of us either do not have the time, or just do not want to learn the ropes of SEO for ourselves. Of course, this is […]
Having it all: Life as a Working Mother and Author
From the perspective of a single mother, it seems that we have to wear all the pants, hats, shoes, and everything in between to take care of our business, right? While this may sound simple enough, I assure you it is not! As a matter of fact, it is extremely difficult to keep the smiles […]
You’re Never Too Old to Write a Book
“Big deal,” I hear you saying. Of course you’re never too old to write a book! These days, anyone can become an author. It is so easy; by using “Publishing on Demand” and publishing on the internet, anyone can get a book out there. So what am I talking about? I’m talking about the fact […]
Poet on Poetry with Sheree Rabe
We met Attorney and Poet Sheree Rabe as @writerrabe on Twitter, when she was building her Poet on Poetry blog, just as we were starting out in 2011. A year later she is going strong with yet another new venture, 100 Million Girls, in addition to Poet on Poetry, which we will address in Part […]
Poet On Gendercide – 100 Million Girls
Continued from Part 1, Poet on Poetry – Interview with Poet and Writer Sheree Rabe You’ve recently announced a new blog site called 100MillionGirls. Tell us about learning about the missing girls? There was a story in the news recently about a man in India who killed his three month old girl just because he […]
Murder by Moonlight
My name is Sandra, and I am a professional killer. However, I don’t spend all of my time killing people; during the day I am a mother of three, a wife, a writer, a philanthropist, and even a part-time librarian at my son’s school. But when the sun goes down, I shed my daytime persona, […]
Honoring Literary Fiction Author Camilla Trinchieri
As writers, each of us has a writer, or several, who has made a difference in our lives. Writers we admired. Writers who have mentored us, friended us, sent an encouraging note. Or, from a distance, simply and deeply moved us with their work. Literary fiction author, Camilla Trinchieri, is one of those writers for […]
Media Ready Media Savvy by Alison Hill
Most writers feel that our work is to create the best book we can, and then we’re done, well, besides getting an agent or a publisher. But the success of that huge journey to write our best book is tied to your efforts in capturing the words and messages about your book that will create […]
Book Review: Poet Diana Raab’s Listening to Africa
Each poet’s voice is as unique as they are, and poems within a collection are varied too, like a region’s weather, with trends and ranges, but ultimately, hopefully, both predictable and unpredictable. Diana M. Raab’s fourth collection of poetry was rich in variety of styles, common threads, and the unpredicted. Listening to Africa emerged during […]
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