Category: How To and Tips
Sarah J. Makowski: On Language and Writing
Since childhood, I’d dreamed of living in England, the birthplace of my literary heroes. I’d walk through Bath arm-in-arm with Anne Elliot. I’d run into the Pevensie kids on the train to London. Like Bridget Jones, I’d get a publishing job, commuting daily from my thatched Tudor cottage nestled inside a secret garden. Who knows? […]
Writing Midlife Emergence: Free Your Inner Fire
Midlife Emergence: Free Your Inner Fire By: Jen Berlingo, MA, LPC, ATR After two decades of guiding my psychotherapy and coaching clients through life’s major transitions, I experienced my own profoundly transformative passage in my early forties. At the time, I heard an inner call I could not deny, asking me to live more fully […]
Why We Wrote Our Book: The Importance of Building an Owner’s Mindset in Family Enterprises
Why We Wrote Our Book: The Importance of Building an Owner’s Mindset in Family Enterprises By Wendy Sage-Hayward, Gaia Marchisio and Barb Dartt Our book,“OWN IT! Building an Owner’s Mindset at Every Age,” aims to shed light on the importance of intentionally developing an owner’s mindset within family enterprises. Through our own experiences and work […]
On Writing MY LOVE NIKOLA TESLA
By Ana Atanaskovic One of the happy endings of my writing journey is publishing my novel MY LOVE NIKOLA TESLA in America, the country where the story takes place. And it happened in November last year. But I would like to start from the beginning. As a young girl, I was greatly inspired by my father. […]
Book Promotion Tips From a Publicist Turned Writer
I’m a writer but I also walk through life with a publicist’s eye. I’ve worked in PR and social media for more than twenty five years and with my debut thriller out in May 2023, I’m taking an even keener look at how authors promote their work. There’s a lot to learn and book publishing […]
The Adventure Indeed Continues
Two years ago, I had written http://booksbywomen.org/the-adventure-continues/ and the adventure indeed continues, but with a different emphasis. When a non-writing friend tried to pigeonhole what I was doing as a “hobby” I started pondering why I was so into writing. It was not to make money, or even a living – the day jobs had […]
Five Things I Wish I Knew Before Publishing By: Jenna Podjasek, MD
Five Things I Wish I Knew Before Publishing By: Jenna Podjasek, MD I’m a busy Allergist/Immunologist, wife, mom, and voracious reader, but the release of my debut medical thriller, Particles in the Air, thrust me (unprepared) into the publishing world. Read on for some high-value, practical advice I learned the hard way. You CANNOT take […]
On Writing Beautiful Trauma By Rebecca Fogg
On Writing Beautiful Trauma By Rebecca Fogg In 2006, my right hand was partially amputated when the toilet exploded in my Brooklyn apartment, as I stood brushing my teeth before bed. With great difficulty I stopped the bleeding and called an ambulance, and surgeons at Bellevue Hospital “replanted” my hand the next day. On the […]
Exploding Family Land-Mines
Exploding family land-mines Czeslaw Milosz, the great poet, said, “When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.” Gary Shteyngart added, “If the family isn’t finished, then the writer is.” When I set out to write Our Lying Kin, it was intended specifically to be the second book in what is becoming […]
If You Don’t Write It, Who Will?
There is terror in the proverb, “If you don’t tell the story, who will?” and it haunted me. I had done something very few people had done. In 1980 I left a full college ride to join the circus and become a trapeze artist. The stories had become a staple at dinner parties and chamber […]
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