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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 4h
When Characters Choose You: Allowing Fictional Voices to Lead the Way by Heather Frimmer booksbywomen.org/when-charact...
When Characters Choose You: Allowing Fictional Voices to Lead the Way  - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Heather Frimmer I’ve always dreamt of being one of those authors who cultivates a never-ending list of ideas for their next novel—ideas popping into my head while commuting to work on the Merritt P...
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HAPPY PUB DAY Tali Lando ! Breathless: Surgical Tales from the Brink is out now, and we're featuring Tali on the site! booksbywomen.org/writer-to-do...
Writer to Doctor and Back Again - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Dr, Tali Lando Before I was a doctor, I was a writer. From the time I was a young child, I dreamed of writing a book. I poured my thoughts into daily, angsty poems, stapling messy loose-leaf pages ...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 1d
Interview With A Death Goddess by T.C. Kraven booksbywomen.org/interview-wi...
Interview With A Death Goddess - Women Writers, Women's Books
Of Prophecies and Pomegranates In Kraven’s spicy, Greek mythology retelling, Persephone, Goddess of Spring, struggles to meet the impossible demands of her overbearing, manipulative mother, Demeter. S...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 1d
Nineteen: A Memoir of Reckoning and Recovery by Leslie Johansen Nack: Excerpt booksbywomen.org/nineteen-a-m...
Nineteen: A Memoir of Reckoning and Recovery by Leslie Johansen Nack: Excerpt - Women Writers, Women's Books
For fans of Stephanie Thornton-Plymale’s American Daughter and Cea Sunrise Person’s North of Normal comes Leslie Johansen Nack’s emotional follow-up memoir about her battle with addiction following a ...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 1d
When Grief Takes Everything booksbywomen.org/when-grief-t... by Vanessa May
When Grief Takes Everything - Women Writers, Women's Books
by Vanessa May How do you survive when grief appears to take everything from you? When I wrote my first book ‘Love Untethered: How to Live When Your Child Dies’, I thought the loss of my son was the w...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 1d
HAPPY PUB DAY Diane Josefowicz Guardians & Saints is out today, and we're featuring Diane on the site! Writing Advice from My Teachers booksbywomen.org/writing-advi... @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social
Writing Advice from My Teachers - Women Writers, Women's Books
My new book, Guardians & Saints, is a collection of stories about care as a process of give-and-take that’s shot through with ambivalence. My characters are students and teachers, doctors and patients...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 1d
The Origin Story: As Is—A Memoir on Healing the Past Through Yoga booksbywomen.org/the-origin-s... By Rachel Krentzman PT, C-IAYT, MBA
The Origin Story: As Is—A Memoir on Healing the Past Through Yoga - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Rachel Krentzman PT, C-IAYT, MBA When I began writing my memoir, As Is: A Memoir on Healing the Past Through Yoga, it felt as though the story was burning inside me, demanding to be told. And yet, ...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 1d
Authors Interviewing Characters: Amber Daulton booksbywomen.org/authors-inte...
Authors Interviewing Characters: Amber Daulton - Women Writers, Women's Books
Lost in His Spiderwebs Kidnapped by the enemy. Bought by the jefe. Will his smoldering touch thaw her frozen heart? Rubén Lozano, the new leader of the Lozano Cartel, craves peace amidst a legacy of b...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 1d
TO OUTWIT THEM ALL by Peggy Wirgau: EXCERPT booksbywomen.org/to-outwit-th...
TO OUTWIT THEM ALL by Peggy Wirgau: EXCERPT - Women Writers, Women's Books
TO OUTWIT THEM ALL “Into the Lions’ den I go…” Betty Floyd’s uncle risked his life when he signed the Declaration of Independence, yet she is the epitome of British loyalty and social grace in 1779. A...
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HAPPY PUB DAY Kristin Bair ! booksbywomen.org/authors-inte... @kristinbairokeeffe.bsky.social
Authors Interviewing Characters: Kristin Bair - Women Writers, Women's Books
Kristin Bair CLEMENTINE CRANE PREFERS NOT TO “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” hits perimenopause in this razor-sharp, wickedly funny novel about one woman’s awakening in a patriarchal world. For years, Cle...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 1d
On Writing Always Hungry booksbywomen.org/on-writing-a... by Jane McGuinness
On Writing Always Hungry - Women Writers, Women's Books
Always Hungry was the book that I had to write. No longer could I be silent about my own lived experience in a larger body because (at the risk of making a bad dad joke) I realised that this story was...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 2d
On Writing My Pretty Baby: Seeking Truth and Finding Healing―A Memoir by Wendy B. Correa booksbywomen.org/on-writing-m...
On Writing My Pretty Baby: Seeking Truth and Finding Healing―A Memoir by Wendy B. Correa - Women Writers, Women's Books
Like many authors, I was haunted by stories that needed to be told, that demanded to be told, that wouldn’t stop badgering me until they saw themselves on paper. I began to write chapters of My Pretty...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 2d
The Power of Memoir By Mary Garden booksbywomen.org/the-power-of...
The Power of Memoir By Mary Garden - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Mary Garden Writing my life helped heal me – and showed others they weren’t alone I love true stories, especially memoirs. That’s what I write. I have now written three books, each exploring my pas...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 5d
Mid-Life Writers Can Survive Perimenopause By Alexandra Addams booksbywomen.org/mid-life-wri...
Mid-Life Writers Can Survive Perimenopause - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Alexandra Addams As a mid-life, female novelist with a completed manuscript clutched in your sweaty hand, you face many challenges to get that book out in the world. You took your sweet time with t...
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Nan Reinhardt @nanreinhardt.bsky.social · 7d
#booksky📚💙 @shellyjones.bsky.social is in the Author Spotlight today with her new cozy and a fun giveaway! Come on over! @tulepublishing.bsky.social @nnlightsbookheaven.bsky.social @womenwriters.bsky.social #readztule #cozymystery #tulemystery #giveaway nanreinhardt.com/author-spotl...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 6d
The Afterlife is Real: What I discovered while writing Dear Bobby: My Grief Journey and The Married Widow: My Journey with Bob Zappa by Diane Papalia Zappa booksbywomen.org/the-afterlif...
The Afterlife is Real: What I discovered while writing Dear Bobby: My Grief Journey and The Married Widow: My Journey with Bob Zappa - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Diane Papalia Zappa My husband Bob Zappa and I rarely spoke about an afterlife. He believed life on earth was the end, so there really wasn’t much to talk about. As for me, I  wasn’t sure. I was op...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 6d
I’m Jealous of Pamela Anderson, But Not for the Reasons You Might Think by Renee Gilmore booksbywomen.org/im-jealous-o...
I’m Jealous of Pamela Anderson, But Not for the Reasons You Might Think - Women Writers, Women's Books
A Memoirist Shares by Renee Gilmore The other night, I found myself watching a Netflix documentary about Pamela Anderson. Why? I’m not exactly sure. I’ll admit—I had my own assumptions about her. I im...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 7d
Some Notes on Writing   booksbywomen.org/some-notes-o... by Barbara Benish
Some Notes on Writing   - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Barbara Benish Writing is not my primary communication nor form of expression: it is visual arts.  Learning the magic of lines-drawing- was, like for most children, my primary experience  of making...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 7d
Happy pub date Shigeko Ito! THE POND BEYOND THE FOREST is out today and we're featuring Shigeko on the site!

Author's Note: From Surviving to Thriving booksbywomen.org/authors-note... by @ShigekoChakoIto
Author's Note: From Surviving to Thriving - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Shigeko Ito In the midst of an unexpectedly tumultuous middle-aged motherhood, I stumbled upon creative writing—a lifeline that helped me gradually emerge from a dark tunnel of stress, anxiety, and...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 8d
Bridging the Past and Present: Writing Romance Rooted in History booksbywomen.org/bridging-the... By Shanna Hatfield
Bridging the Past and Present: Writing Romance Rooted in History - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Shanna Hatfield Books have been a wonderful source of adventure for as long as I can remember. My mother shared her love of books with me, reading to me most every night as a young child. When I wa...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 8d
Authors Interviewing Characters: Heather Ogden booksbywomen.org/authors-inte...
Authors Interviewing Characters: Heather Ogden - Women Writers, Women's Books
The Betrayal Angelette Arabella has spent her life in the shadow of the man the nation calls a hero—her father, Valerius, the revered leader of Libertis. To the world, he’s a savior. To her, he’s simp...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 8d
The Baby’s Cry, the Blank Page, and the Myth of the Writing Mother booksbywomen.org/the-babys-cr... by Caroline Lea
The Baby’s Cry, the Blank Page, and the Myth of the Writing Mother - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Caroline Lea I once tried to revise a sex scene while cooking dinner for my family. Reader, it was a disaster: the chicken was burned and had to be binned; the characters lost interest in each othe...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 8d
Mastering Intentions: 10 Practices to Amplify Your Power and Lead with Lasting Impact booksbywomen.org/mastering-in...
Mastering Intentions: 10 Practices to Amplify Your Power and Lead with Lasting Impact - Women Writers, Women's Books
by Bianca D’Alessio  When I was younger, I used to tell myself that one day I would write a book. It wasn’t because I already knew what story I wanted to tell — but because writing was how I learned t...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 8d
Perspective Will Drive Your Story Forward booksbywomen.org/perspective-... by Kathryn Craft
Perspective Will Drive Your Story Forward - Women Writers, Women's Books
by Kathryn Craft “To expand the reader’s perspective is one of literature’s highest callings. Memoir would be pointless without it. Perspective pervades a journalist’s best quotes, energizes speeches,...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 13d
Song Over The Bones: Silence As Reclamation booksbywomen.org/song-over-th... By Melissa Meszaros
Song Over The Bones: Silence As Reclamation - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Melissa Meszaros Internet dating should not exist without a relationship jail.  If you fail to comply with who you say you are, there should be consequences, a fraudulent misrepresentation suit, ma...
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