Tag: women writers
Why Every Author Needs Their Website
Why Every Author Needs Their Website: The Importance of Establishing a Professional Online Presence An author website is crucial for any writer who wants to establish a professional online presence and effectively market their work. A well-designed and well-maintained author website can serve as a central hub for your marketing activity, allowing you to connect […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Anju Gattani interviews RAKESH from DYNASTIES
Anju Gattani interviews Rakesh from DYNASTIES “An enticing Downton Abbey-style saga, but set in India!” Barbara Bos, Managing Editor www.booksbywomen.org About DYNASTIES Sheetal Prasad, a glamorous, twenty-two-year-old oil painter, is the envy of Raigun, India. Her homeland, now modern and global, at last allows women to marry for love, and Sheetal is determined to wed […]
Why I write: Deborah Klee
Why I write Write what you know. Advice we have all heard. I reword that to: Write what you feel. Write what you are passionate about. It is this that gives us a unique voice. For me, it is the power of friendship and community. The emotional courage everyday people find in responding to life’s […]
Please Be Advised: A Novel in Memos: One Word, Then Another
The thought of beginning a work of fiction with the intention, “This will be a novel,” sort of terrifies me. When I started writing fiction after college in the early 1990s, I focused on the short story, which has remained my favorite fictional form. Yet, I like the challenge and what I see as the […]
A New Take on #MeToo: On Writing What We Never Say
A New Take on #MeToo: On Writing What We Never Say By Paulette Stout The #MeToo movement unfolded before our horrified eyes. It was an abomination many suspected—or outright knew–was happening—but did nothing to intervene. Yet hidden within that darkness were still more stories. Tragic stories of abused men, each sounding eerily familiar. Unlike the […]
Finding My Footing as a Career-Books Author
Finding My Footing as a Career-Books Author By Vicky Oliver I always dreamed of being a writer. The issue was, I could not afford to be one. My mother and stepfather told me that I couldn’t, and I believed them. They urged me to try to get a job where I would be paid to […]
Why I Wrote Closer To Ok
I have two scars on my forearm, nearly invisible where I pressed a knife to the skin, just hard enough to draw blood and not do any real damage. I couldn’t go through with adding pressure to the cuts. The protagonist in my novel, Kyle, does go through with it, though, and lands in a […]
A Twist of Fate By Karen Rose Smith
When I was in my thirties, I thought I knew what my life would be. I was married with a son. I thought I’d be teaching or act as a lay editor for a school district until I retired. But… Life’s journey is made up of twists and turns I’d only begun to realize. I’d […]
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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