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Butchering Eels By Julie E. Justicz
I dreaded the moment for years—through the early drafts and the revisions, through the long slog to complete the novel, through its acceptance by a small press, through several rounds of copy-editing, right up to the printing of advance review copies (ARCs). I worried and I wondered: What will my mother think when she reads […]
What Do We Really Want?
I hate writing. That isn’t true. Not exactly. There are loads things I love about writing fiction, like exploring characters, dreaming up of the next plot point (even if plot and I are never best friends), discovering in a story (and myself) something I didn’t know I would. I especially love rewriting, when the hard […]
Interview with Lydia Grey, one of The Silver Ladies of London
My name is Lesley Eames and I write 1920s-set historical romances. The first of these, The Silver Ladies of London was shortlisted in the 2019 UK Romantic Novel Awards run by the Romantic Novelists’ Association together with Goldsboro Books. I’m delighted to be introducing Women Writers to one of those Silver Ladies, Lydia Grey, who […]
Burn It Down
When an editor at Seal Press approached me in March, 2018 and asked if I might be interested in editing an anthology of essays on women’s anger, I waited to hear what the catch was going to be. There was no way such a perfect project could just fall into my lap! It felt like […]
Interview with Kimberly Collins
Kimberly Collin’s Blood Creek gives voice to the women who fought during the West Virginia Coal Mine Wars of the early 1900s. Collins dives into the lesser-known coal mine wars and tells the untold story of the women of Appalachia. Ellie Cline arrives in West Virginia the talk – and envy – of the town, […]
Fear Provides Us With the Opportunity to Slay Dragons
By Laurie Buchanan, PhD Everyone has fears. Fear of spiders. Fear of heights. Fear of confined spaces. If you’re reading this article, there’s a good chance that you’re a writer—a female writer. There’s an even higher chance that at some point, fear has kept you from writing. Here are a few common writing-related fears: Am […]
What Breed is Your Writer?
Dogs come in many different shapes and sizes, and they have very different characteristics. While training my puppy, a Labrador retriever named Capone, I spent a lot of time around other puppies, and realized something astonishing. Different breeds of dogs are like different types of writers. This seemed like such an extraordinary idea, but when […]
Writing to Market
There’s this fun little thing in publishing called “writing to market.” Writing to market means picking your genre, characters, central storyline etc. according to what readers want to read at that moment. It’s a brilliant strategy, right? Unless you’re me. I don’t create stories based on demand; I can’t. I write based on character. For […]
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 […]
Six Books in Three Years: An Indie Publishing Journey By Susan Cushman
The quickly changing world of book publishing can be a difficult terrain to traverse for a new writer. After spending a decade “prepping” for this leg of the journey by writing and publishing essays in various journals and magazines and building a platform on social media, I was finally ready to publish a book. And […]
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