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BEST WOMEN’S EROTICA OF THE YEAR

BEST WOMEN’S EROTICA OF THE YEAR

 In Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 5, award-winning editor Rachel Kramer Bussel takes readers on an outrageous journey into the world of female fantasy and desire. These sexy stories offer up wild, hot and steamy tales from today’s top authors. You’ll be swept away by the sexiest business deal ever, break the rules […]

February 14, 2020 | By | Reply More
An Interview with Melissa W. Hunter

An Interview with Melissa W. Hunter

An Interview with Melissa W. Hunter Melissa W. Hunter is an author and blogger from Cincinnati, Ohio. Her articles have been published on Kveller.com and LiteraryMama.com, and her short stories have appeared in the Jewish Literary Journal. She is a contributing blogger to the Today Show parenting community, and her novella Through a Mirror Clear […]

January 20, 2020 | By | Reply More
Search Heartache: Carla Malden

Search Heartache: Carla Malden

Raised in Los Angeles, Carla Malden began her career working in motion picture production and development before becoming a screenwriter. Along with her father, Academy Award–winning actor Karl Malden, she coauthored his critically acclaimed memoir, When Do I Start?. More recently, Malden published AfterImage: A Brokenhearted Memoir of A Charmed Life, a fiercely personal account of battling […]

December 10, 2019 | By | Reply More
Excerpt of THE SEASON: A History of the Debutante

Excerpt of THE SEASON: A History of the Debutante

The world of debutantes opens into a revealing story of women across six centuries, their limited options, and their desires in Kristen Richardson’s THE SEASON: A History of the Debutante [W. W. Norton & Company; November 2019; $26.95 Hardcover]. Digging into the roots of the debutante ritual, with its ballrooms and white dresses, Kristen Richardson – […]

November 24, 2019 | By | Reply More
INTERVIEW WITH NICOLE MEIER

INTERVIEW WITH NICOLE MEIER

Nicole Meier is a native Southern Californian who pulled up roots and moved to the Pacific Northwest, where she lives with her husband, three children, and one very nosey Aussiedoodle.  Her debut novel, THE HOUSE OF BRADBURY, was chosen as a Best Book of 2016 by Refinery29. Her second novel, THE GIRL MADE OF CLAY, was […]

October 4, 2019 | By | Reply More
Brooke Warner’s Write On Sisters! Excerpt

Brooke Warner’s Write On Sisters! Excerpt

Brooke Warner, founder of Indie Publisher of the Year 2019 She Writes Press, shines a light on the ever-present obstacles women writers face in her new book Write On Sisters!: Voice, Courage, and Claiming Your Place at the Table (August 27, She Writes Press). Brooke draws upon research, anecdotes and her personal experiences in the book publishing industry […]

September 23, 2019 | By | Reply More
An Interview with Judy Stone, MD, author of RESILIENCE

An Interview with Judy Stone, MD, author of RESILIENCE

Dr. Stone is the daughter of Hungarian Holocaust survivors. Her book RESILIENCE is a study in human contrasts: kindness and callousness, tolerance and hatred, humanity and cruelty. During World War II, hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews suffered prejudice and discrimination, oppressive segregation, and wholesale murder at the hands of the Nazis. But like the flower that grows […]

September 18, 2019 | By | Reply More
Online Writing Classes: She Writes University

Online Writing Classes: She Writes University

WHAT IS SHE WRITES UNIVERSITY? She Writes University is the only online, live webinar-based writing program featuring online educational webinars by bestselling and award-winning authors, backed by a community of nearly 33,000 female writers. Attend these classes live online, or view the recordings whenever you can. The Fall 2019 semester features an exciting lineup of female […]

September 17, 2019 | By | Reply More
Interview with Diane C. McPhail, author of THE ABOLITIONIST’S DAUGHTER

Interview with Diane C. McPhail, author of THE ABOLITIONIST’S DAUGHTER

Based on true events and rooted in family history, Diane C. McPhail’s debut novel upends stereotypes of the Civil War South with a rare depiction of Southern Abolitionism and the experiences of three astonishing women. We are delighted to feature this interview with her! Q: Tell us a little about the background of THE ABOLITIONIST’S […]

August 29, 2019 | By | Reply More
The Impatient Dr. Lange: An Excerpt

The Impatient Dr. Lange: An Excerpt

Five years ago this July, pro-Russian rebels shot a commercial plane from the sky killing all 298 people on board and slowing the development of a cure for HIV.  In The Impatient Dr. Lange, Pulitzer-finalist Dr. Seema Yasmin tells the story of her mentor, Dr. Joep Lange––a shrewd Dutch HIV doctor and scientist who was […]

July 17, 2019 | By | Reply More