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On Writing Scabmuggers
By Yvonne Martinez “Someday Mija, you’ll learn the difference between a whore and a working woman.” The words my sex worker grandmother told me that shaped my life. It was 1950’s Salt Lake, I was seven years old, and she had just come back from organizing a labor action. Salt Lake tavern owners brought in […]
Love Works: Writing a Book at the Crossroads of Business and Humanity By Kelly Hall
By Kelly Hall When Books by Women offered the chance to share how my book came into the world, I paused to reflect on the strange, winding path that led me here. Writing Love Works was never on my career checklist. I was a business executive, not an author. Yet sometimes, a book chooses its writer. For me, that […]
For the Love of Women in History
By Alison Chambers I have always been a voracious reader, so much so that I wanted to write my own book. Like Dan Brown of The Da Vinci Code fame, who said something like ‘I thought I could do better’ when reading other author’s books, I knew at an early age that at least I […]
Choose Adventure over Convention. Then Write about It
By Alex Poppe Hanging onto the Land Cruiser’s roof rack with my left hand, I let go with my right, twisting to take photos of the stampede of children chasing us. Riding the back bumper evoked the exhilarated invincibility of youth. This is why I came here, I thought. This is wh—the humanitarian aid truck […]
Suzanne Trauth Interviews Connie Tucker from The First to Die
Connie Tucker from The First to Die Connie Tucker, a free-spirited beach bartender, has been estranged from her family in New Jersey ever since her actress mother, Simone, disappeared one night during a violent storm at the theatre where she was rehearsing. Uncontrollable and in a rage at the loss of her parent, fifteen-year-old Connie […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Kristin Bair
Kristin Bair CLEMENTINE CRANE PREFERS NOT TO “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” hits perimenopause in this razor-sharp, wickedly funny novel about one woman’s awakening in a patriarchal world. For years, Clementine Crane has been the invisible force holding her Byrock, Massachusetts, home together—juggling three demanding kids, a husband who’s more hindrance than help, a soul-crushing boss […]
The Pest Complex: A Cautionary Tale For The Author Who’s Afraid To Ask
By Rachel Stone As far back as I recall, I’ve suffered from what I call the Pest Complex: a paralyzing fear of being a bother, asking for too much (or anything, ever), or taking someone else’s precious time. And friends, I have it bad. Server gets my order wrong? I say nothing. It’s good to try new […]
They Said What? Reader Reactions to The Marriage Debt
By Christina Consolino When I first began writing my latest novel, The Marriage Debt, I had women readers in mind. After all, the main topic—menopause—is a “normal” part of aging that affects many women. As I fleshed out Nika and her husband, Ethan, their relationship, Nika’s relationship with others, and how prevalent perimenopausal and menopausal […]
Murdered for a Dress: A Kashmiri Daughter’s Story
By Huma Sheikh It is the night of July 13, 2003. My last living image of my father, Ghulam Nabi Sheikh, a famous Kashmiri singer and producer with Radio Kashmir, stays with me. He sits cross-legged across from me on the bottom bunk of the train. His right hand, holding a dripping mutton cube wrapped […]
How to Find Your Publishing Path
By Camille Pagán On a recent group coaching call, one of my clients asked if there was a particular trait most successful novelists shared. I didn’t blink before answering: “Flexibility.” Like nearly all things in life, publishing changes. Algorithms, publishers, agents, editors, readers, and marketing methods aren’t static. To stay in this business—which is how […]
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