Author Archive: Women Writers Women Books
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The Blogger-Author Relationship—Gaining 5-Star Status
If your relationship with the blogging community consists of a mass email dump to Dear Blogger every time you release a new book, you’re missing the point. Book blogs don’t just add to the string of 5-star reviews you’re hoping to wrap around your new release. Book bloggers also host authors, participate in book hops, and provide content related to reading […]
Best Indie Books of Fall
Looking to support some new indie book releases of the fall season? We’ve got you covered! Here you will find the best of the best indie books releasing this fall. From captivating women’s fiction to moving and inspiring memoirs there is something for everyone! Sugar Birds by Cheryl Grey Bostrom 10-year-old Aggie has grown up […]
I’M GREAT Every Day: A Guided Journal for Creating a Better Self
by Linda Callahan Reading and writing have always been an integral part of my life. My love for reading and writing began at an early age. I was the child who would walk to the library and walk home with my arms laden with books. I especially love journaling. I started keeping a journal when […]
Playing House
Playing House In the 1940’s, Chicago heiress Frances Glessner Lee turned the notion of a dollhouse on its head. Her tiny models of violent crimes taught a new breed of cop to investigate crime scenes—in effect, to play house. She also inspired me, a mystery writer, to reexamine the meaning of home. Born in 1878, […]
Launch Your Book with Great Reviews: 4 Tips to Get You Started
Searching for rocket fuel to launch your book? Great reviews can shoot your masterpiece right up the Amazon lists. Potential buyers demand an unbiased critique of a book’s merits to simplify the task of finding the next great read. Most expect to find at least ten glowing reviews on a book’s product page before they’ll […]
Becoming Jack Hopper
Becoming Jack Hopper (Disclaimer: Nothing I say here will be politically correct) By Joan Schweighardt I had a penchant for writing from multiple points of view from the get-go, but as most of my characters were women, I never had to sustain my “maleness” throughout an entire book. My first first-person male was an English […]
The Easy Life in Kamusari EXCERPT
From Shion Miura, the award-winning author of The Great Passage, comes a rapturous novel where the contemporary and the traditional meet amid the splendor of Japan’s mountain way of life. We are delighted to feature this excerpt! The Easy Life in Kamusari Yuki Hirano, is just out of high school when his parents enroll him, against […]
On Writing A Memoir by Sandra CH Smith
Good grief…write a memoir? Unwrap all the little boxes and let the dark secrets out? Let them all know who I really am or was? You’ve gotta be kidding! No way, Jose! Well, that’s what I thought when someone suggested I write a book about the seven years I spent sailing alone in the Pacific. […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Joy Castro
From International Latino Book Award and Nebraska Book Award-winning author Joy Castro, comes FLIGHT RISK (11/1), a heartbreaking, suspenseful, and ultimately triumphant novel split between Appalachia and Chicago. Drawing on her own personal experiences, memoirist and Willa Cather Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Castro crafts the wrenching story of Isabel Morales. Isabel is a successful […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Laurel Schmidt
Laurel Schmidt, author of How To Be Dead: A Love Story, interviews the main character, Frances Beacon. How to Be Dead — A Love Story by Laurel Schmidt explores what it means to be fully alive — even in the afterlife. A tale told with humor, heart, and intelligence, it celebrates the power of memory and […]
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