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Finding Marvelous
In early 2020, I found Pedro Gonzales, the Wild Man of Tenerife. I was working with a friend in a café, and there he was, waiting—a snippet below one result from my Google search. The deadline for my second book’s edits loomed, and I’d been verifying a stray fact; what I found by chance instead […]
Libraries are Training Grounds for Writers by Kimberly G. Giarratano
Libraries are training grounds for writers by Kimberly G. Giarratano My publishing journey started alongside my librarian career. After five years of teaching in New Jersey public schools, I was burnt out. I loved my students, but hated the politics, so I got a master’s degree in library science, thinking I’d work in an archive […]
Creating Yoga Books Helped Me Stretch My Writing Voice
Creating Yoga Books Helped Me Stretch My Writing Voice By Holly Lebowitz Rossi “Write the book you want to read,” goes the classic aphorism. In my case, I persuaded my longtime yoga teacher to partner in writing two books I want to be able to pull off my shelf when I need to be reminded […]
Rising Action Publishing
Women have long been underrepresented in the publishing industry, both as authors and as members of the workforce. In recent years, however, there has been a growing movement to address this imbalance and amplify women’s voices in publishing. Publishers have played a vital role in this effort, using their platform to spotlight female authors and […]
My Writing Journey Katy Brent
My Writing Journey Katy Brent How To Kill Men and Get Away With it began as an embryonic idea with an elevator line of ‘a stabby Sex and the City’, when I started a Faber Academy writing course in 2018. At the time I was, along with half the planet, a bit obsessed with Jodie […]
When a Humor Author Tackles Divorce
When a Humor Author Tackles Divorce By: Dawn Dais Over the course of my 15+ year writing career I’ve written books that have skewed mostly humorous. I trained for a marathon and wrote a book about what happens when a couch potato puts on running shoes (The Nonrunner’s Marathon Guide for Women). I did the […]
From Junkie to Judge: Using My Story to Advocate for Others
From Junkie to Judge: Using My Story to Advocate for Others By Mary Beth O’Connor From Junkie to Judge: One Woman’s Triumph Over Trauma and Addiction took seven years to progress from initial idea to completion. In 2014, when I was 20 years sober, I was appointed a federal administrative law judge. This accomplishment prompted […]
Three Sparks to Light My Process by Dorothy Bentley
Three Sparks to Light My Process by Dorothy Bentley I’ve always been a creative person, but it didn’t take long to realize that having creative sparks does not automatically make one a successful writer. It takes time and focus to develop. My writing process involved developing three main sparks: the spark of inspiration, spark of […]
The Forgotten Women Who Inspired THE THREE LIVES OF ALIX ST PIERRE
New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of The Paris Seamstress , The Paris Orphan and The Paris Secret , Natasha Lester offers us a fascinating tale of another daring woman in THE THREE LIVES OF ALIX ST. PIERRE ( Grand Central/Forever; January 10, 2023 ). An orphan turned WWII spy turned fashion icon […]
A Writer’s Revision Obsession
A Writer’s Revision Obsession Types frantically at keyboard… Rereads and deletes… Sighs… Just one more edit… before submitting to critique partners, beta readers, agents, publishers. Yes, I’m that writer—desperate to tweak a sentence or adjust a character’s dialogue one last time. Perfectionist is a generous word to describe this obsession; anal-retentive is more accurate. Ring […]
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