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Lucille Guarino: Writing Lunch Tales: Suellen
I am excited to share the news of my new novel, Lunch Tales: Suellen. The way this story came about is quite different from my previous novel, Elizabeth’s Mountain, which was sparked by a dream. Lunch Tales: Suellen is drawn from my personal experience in working at a major New Jersey law firm for several years where I met a lot of […]
The Year of Transitioning from Empress to Emperor: from Intuition to Efficiency
2024 will be the year of the woman leader! May 2024 saw the publication of my second book in the Arcana Oracle Series, High Priestess and Empress. I thought in 2024 that the stars were aligned perfectly for women leaders to be celebrated. My book series is based on the real-life Victorian women leaders, celebrity […]
One Step, One Story Leads to Another
By Julie Ryan McGue At age 48, I was sent for a breast biopsy. That singular event has been life-altering. First, it led to a five-year search for my birth parents, and then to a late-in-life writing career, one comprised of publishing nonfiction books, essays, blogs, and a regular column. Such is life. One step […]
DG Rampton: On Writing
Australia’s Queen of Regency Romance DG Rampton took Ten Years to Write her First Book but Now she’s an Amazon bestseller with over 100,000 downloads. By D. G. Rampton People often ask me how I became an author and I have the sense that they expect me to say it was some pre-planned career goal […]
The Perfect Rom-Com, by Melissa Ferguson, Excerpt
THE PERFECT ROM-COM, Melissa Ferguson “Melissa Ferguson delivers yet another sparkling, laugh-out-loud romance!” –RaeAnne Thayne, New York Times bestselling author She’s written dozens of smash-hit romance novels. Too bad no one knows it. Aspiring author Bryony Page attends her first writers conference bursting with optimism and ready to sell her manuscript with long-shot dreams of raising awareness for […]
What Really Matters? by Meredith Murray
Nothing in life is guaranteed. As adults, we often learn this lesson painfully and without warning. As children, we hear and place trust in a seemingly linear path to success, as instructed by the adults in our lives (i.e., parents, teachers, guidance counselors, coaches). Get good grades in school, take on leadership roles in extracurricular […]
Inspired by Japanese Dolls and a Celebration of Girls
By Suzanne Kamata In February in Japan, where I have lived for the past 35 years, households with young daughters display hina ningyo, beautiful ornamental dolls representing the Emperor, Empress, and various courtiers. The dolls are arranged on tiered shelves, with the Emperor and Empress on the top. The full set is expensive, costing thousands […]
From Iran to Freedom
Growing up in Tehran in the 90s, being a girl meant carrying a weight you didn’t fully understand. Life was shaped by rules that no one questioned, passed down from mothers to daughters without a second thought. Girls were taught that their worth was tied to marriage and motherhood, that their lives were meant to […]
Writing Female-Centric Thrillers: Helping Women Feel Seen in Commercial Crime Fiction
As a female author of commercial thrillers my main aim is for my stories to entertain. Yet it’s also important to me that they’re relatable and an honest reflection of society and the world seen through the eyes of women today. So how do you create a story that resonates emotionally with female readers, while […]
Give Yourself Credit for Showing Up
by Raquel Drosos “Never stop creating.” This is what I write above my signature in every book I autograph. But for a long stretch last year, I stopped following my own advice—and found myself in a bad place. Let me back up. I’m the author of two novels: Games of Chance, a coming-of-age family saga, […]
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