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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 3d
#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 · 2d
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 · 2d
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 · 3d
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 · 3d
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 · 4d
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 · 4d
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 · 4d
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 · 4d
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 · 4d
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 · 9d
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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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 9d
Have Attitudes Towards Women Really Changed Since 1900? booksbywomen.org/have-attitud... by Caroline McGhie
Have Attitudes Towards Women Really Changed Since 1900? - Women Writers, Women's Books
Journalist Caroline McGhie got to explore Victorian attitudes to women’s rights, sexual freedom, religion, art and pornography when writing her debut novel The Sitter. But has anything changed since 1...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 10d
A Writers Journey in Crazy Persistence by Sue Hinkin booksbywomen.org/a-writers-jo...
A Writers Journey in Crazy Persistence - Women Writers, Women's Books
As with many writers, I read voraciously as a kid, particularly Nancy Drew mysteries. I even made my own little editions with crayon-drawn covers and stories bound with staples. In a time where women’...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 10d
Authors Interviewing Characters: Teddy Jones booksbywomen.org/authors-inte...
Authors Interviewing Characters: Teddy Jones - Women Writers, Women's Books
A FAMILY OF GOOD WOMEN Imogene Good finds herself wrestling with this question when, still grieving her mother’s death, she abandons a promising teaching career to open a boarding house in the near-la...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 10d
What are you Reading Now? booksbywomen.org/what-are-you... @lesliekainauthor.bsky.social
What are you Reading Now? - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Leslie Kain In the middle of stressful times, do you read escapist novels? Or stories with characters you can’t stop thinking about, stories that pull you in and won’t let you go? In 2021, a book c...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 10d
The Origin Story: Soul Toll, For Anyone Who Has Ever Wondered if Success is Enough booksbywomen.org/the-origin-s... by Anusha Gillespie
The Origin Story: Soul Toll, For Anyone Who Has Ever Wondered if Success is Enough - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Anusia Gillespie At 29, I quit my law firm job with six-figure debt and no backup plan. Something had shifted. A meditation as part of a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training program cracked something ope...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 10d
UNMAPPED: SOLO WOMEN TRAVELERS ON BOLD JOURNEYS OF HEALING, RESILIENCE, AND SELF-DISCOVERY is out on Kindle today! (paperback coming in October)
Lizbeth Meredith has done a marvellous job collecting these inspiring essays!
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Nan Reinhardt @nanreinhardt.bsky.social · 13d
My birthday was Friday--today, the Sunday Snippet is all about aging. Stop by, let's chat... #readztule @tulepublishing.bsky.social @womenwriters.bsky.social @nnlightsbookheaven.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/nan819/p... #aging #gettingolder
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The Reflections on Aging Edition
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 11d
HELLO WIFE, by Lisa K. Friedman: Excerpt booksbywomen.org/hello-wife-b...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 11d
Pages of the Past: The Story Behind my Story booksbywomen.org/pages-of-the... by Maggie Goldsmith
Pages of the Past: The Story Behind my Story - Women Writers, Women's Books
Margie Goldsmith, author of “Becoming a Badass: From Fearful to Fierce.” Covid hit.  Most of my magazine assignments were experiential travel stories, but with all travel cancelled, now would be the p...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 11d
Authors Interviewing Characters: Tamar Shapiro booksbywomen.org/authors-inte...
Authors Interviewing Characters: Tamar Shapiro - Women Writers, Women's Books
RESTITUTION As children in Central Illinois, Kate and Martin were never told much about their mother’s childhood in East Germany. And they rarely asked questions. Decades later in 1989, when the Berli...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 11d
How My Book of Essays Became a Memoir of My Journey of Self-Discovery on Ireland’s Backroads booksbywomen.org/how-my-book-... by Diane Hartman
How My Book of Essays Became a Memoir of My Journey of Self-Discovery on Ireland’s Backroads - Women Writers, Women's Books
by Diane Hartman When I began my memoir, Getting Lost On My Way: Self-Discovery on Ireland’s Backroads, many years ago, I envisioned it as being a book of essays weaved together by a common thread –my...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 11d
The Writing of A Map of Her Own by Dede Montgomery booksbywomen.org/the-writing-...
The Writing of A Map of Her Own by Dede Montgomery - Women Writers, Women's Books
When I began this story, I thought it would be my fifth rather than sixth book. But as other authors know to happen, life interrupted. I did know that Celia, a character from my “novel in stories” Hum...
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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · 12d
’How’s Your Book Doing?’ and Other Post-Publication Questions booksbywomen.org/hows-your-bo... @lorrainedevonwilke.bsky.social
’How’s Your Book Doing?’ and Other Post-Publication Questions - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Lorraine Devon Wilke Every step in the process of birthing a book has a life of its own: Imagining the book. Writing the book. Editing the book. Querying the book. Not querying the book. Publishing...
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