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Exclusive Excerpt from THE HALF OF IT by Juliette Fay
We are delighted to feature an exclusive excerpt from THE HALF OF IT by Juliette Fay! THE HALF OF IT Fay beautifully navigates the layers of family and friendship, the great loves we lose, the imperfect marriages we manage with grace, and the unexpected miracles that will astonish us.” —Randy Susan Meyers, international bestselling author […]
MUSCLE MEMORY: Essay by Claudia Hinz
My mother hobbles into the kitchen. Her gait is a wide, see-sawing lurch, reminiscent of my children as toddlers who barreled headlong into everything. I watch helplessly, certain this is the moment she crashes into a table or snags the edge of a rug and hits the ground. This morning, her flannel nightgown is crusted […]
On Writing MY LOVE NIKOLA TESLA
By Ana Atanaskovic One of the happy endings of my writing journey is publishing my novel MY LOVE NIKOLA TESLA in America, the country where the story takes place. And it happened in November last year. But I would like to start from the beginning. As a young girl, I was greatly inspired by my father. […]
On Publishing My Mother’s Memoir
Two years ago, I broke. Crumbled. Oh, I struggled for a few months using whatever energy bursts I could muster to stay in the game, but by early 2022, no amount of priming could restart the flow and I prepared to step away from it all. After seven plus years of writing, publishing, promoting, volunteering […]
Book Promotion Tips From a Publicist Turned Writer
I’m a writer but I also walk through life with a publicist’s eye. I’ve worked in PR and social media for more than twenty five years and with my debut thriller out in May 2023, I’m taking an even keener look at how authors promote their work. There’s a lot to learn and book publishing […]
The Adventure Indeed Continues
Two years ago, I had written http://booksbywomen.org/the-adventure-continues/ and the adventure indeed continues, but with a different emphasis. When a non-writing friend tried to pigeonhole what I was doing as a “hobby” I started pondering why I was so into writing. It was not to make money, or even a living – the day jobs had […]
Writing By The Seat of my Yoga Pants By Donnaldson Brown
Writing By The Seat of my Yoga Pants By Donnaldson Brown Have you ever been asked, ‘are you a pantser or an outliner?’ Meaning, do you fly by the seat of your pants when you write, or do you know where you’re headed when you start and outline it? I’m a ‘pantser,’ who thinks I […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Patricia Leavy, author of Hollyland
Authors Interviewing Characters: Patricia Leavy, author of Hollyland “. . . Leavy weaves a lot of excitement, charm, and romance into this concise and highly engrossing novel . . . I would not hesitate to recommend Hollyland to fans of romance and women’s fiction everywhere; you will not be disappointed.” —Readers’ Favorite, 5-star review “… a spellbinding […]
CHARACTER REDEMPTION ARCS
CHARACTER REDEMPTION ARCS In fiction books, redemption arcs are tied to a character—the protagonist, antagonist, or even a secondary character—and vary by the author’s intention, genre, plot, and characters. The dictionary defines redemption as “An act of redeeming or atoning for a fault or mistake.” In the definition, the word “act” implies action. Choices create […]
How One Special Dinner Went From Meal to Memoir
Leslie Karst—Justice is Served: A Tale of Scallops, the Law, and Cooking for RBG It may seem odd, but even though I’d been tapped to personally host an intimate dinner party for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her charming and witty tax law professor husband Marty, it never occurred to me at the […]
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