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Male Versus Female Thriller Writers
For the past couple of years, I’ve been involved in marketing my debut novel and writing a couple of others. For no particular reason, during that time I’ve read mostly books written by women, whether they were thrillers or something else. Last week, while browsing the new books section at my public library, I came […]
First Person Novels – Love or Hate?
Alice Jolly looks at the risks and rewards of novels written in extraordinary first person voices. I know people who never read a novel written in the first person. I do see their point. First person novels can be like finding yourself wedged on a train next to someone who is chatty, over sharing, mendacious […]
What Success Means to a Writer
What success means to a writer by Ashley Dyer Success is easily quantifiable if it’s equated with sales and earnings. But is it right to measure writing success in those terms? Is writing success quantifiable at all? In a writing career of twenty-three years, my novels have been published in the UK, the USA and […]
How My Love of Vintage Inspires my Writing
For as long as I can remember I have been passionate about vintage. As a young girl, this was sometimes more out of necessity because of lack of funds, than a desire to be environmentally mindful, but on other occasions my enthusiasm was the result falling in love with something which had already served a […]
Merging Message and Medium By Nina Sadowsky
By Nina Sadowsky When I sold my first book in 2015, I was cautioned against sharing my political or social opinions on social media. I was warned that being vocal about certain issues might alienate some readers. My response was a shrug. It was too late. I’d joined social media prior to my becoming a […]
Pelvis Has Left the Building
By Stevie Z Fischer Women writers, here’s a multiple choice problem. When we toil ceaselessly at our laptops, we: A) conjure new worlds; B) talk to ourselves in a manner that alarms others; or C) ignore our loved ones. How about all of the above plus D)? It’s not really a head-scratcher but try this […]
Letters To Ourselves
My mother sits at the kitchen table, her hat and boots still on, her chair dragged at an awkward angle to the corner of the table so that she has to reach to write her letter. We have just returned from a shopping outing, the first time we have gone shopping together in years. She […]
THE SURPRISING SILVER LINING OF UNSUCCESSFULNESS
THE SURPRISING SILVER LINING OF UNSUCCESSFULNESS There is a lot of fuss and celebration when a book comes into the world: we do interviews, readers tag us in social media posts, friends near and far send congratulations. And then, inevitably, the world moves on. Messages—and sales—slow down, sometimes to a trickle, and for some, the […]
On Being A Published Author: The Fantasy Versus the Reality
The irony of releasing a second (or third, or fourth) book into the wild is that there is almost zero time left to create the words that allowed you to release a book. This is not something people tell you about in those blissfully ignorant unpublished years, when your fantasies about being published may include […]
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 – […]
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