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The Origin Story: How a Careerâs Worth of Frustration Became a Book
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The Origin Story: How a Careerâs Worth of Frustration Became a Book - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Kimberly Lee, SPHR I did not sit down one day and decide to write a book. That is not how this happened. What happened was more like a slow accumulation. Twenty years of watching the same thing play out in organization after organization, across industries, across company sizes, in good economic times and bad. [âŚ]
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We're delighted to feature Lizbeth Meredith on the site today! From Shelter to Seven Continents: What Antarctica Taught Me About Rest and Writing
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Writing âClever Girl Millionaireâ: What It Really Takes to Write a Book That Matters By Bola Sokunbi
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Writing âClever Girl Millionaireâ: What It Really Takes to Write a Book That Matters - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Bola Sokunbi, Author and founder of Clever Girl Finance ââ Iâve written six books. Youâd think by now Iâd have a writing system so polished it practically runs itself. And in some ways, I do. I und...
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Holding Both: Grieving Your Losses While the World Grieves Too
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By Shelby Forsythia
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Holding Both: Grieving Your Losses While the World Grieves Too - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Shelby Forsythia At least once a month, it happens. Iâm sitting with a group of grieving people during one of my weekly support calls, speaking into the mic while messages begin to appear in the ...
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Plots and Paper; Scissors and Scenes⌠by Susan Kleinman
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Plots and Paper; Scissors and Scenes⌠by Susan Kleinman - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Susan Kleinman âSo,â the interviewer asks me, âwhat do you do when youâre not writing?â The first three answers that come to mindâI doomscroll, I cook dinner, I complain about having to cook dinner...
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An Archaeological Dig of My Life by Deborah Kalb
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An Archaeological Dig of My Life - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Deborah Kalb Many decades ago, when I was in my 20s, I decided to write a mystery novel. I had been working at a magazine in Washington, D.C., filled with interesting characters, so I thought that ...
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How to Create Atmosphere in a Historical Novel and Keep the Details Authentic
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By A.A. Sekhon
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How to Create Atmosphere in a Historical Novel and Keep the Details Authentic - Women Writers, Women's Books
By A.A. Sekhon When writing any work of fiction, it is important to create atmosphere so that readers can be immersed in the story. Writing historical fiction presents its own unique challenges in thi...
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Because My Fingers Tingle
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Because My Fingers Tingle - Women Writers, Women's Books
by Grace Sammon A few weeks ago, I read an essay by a successful novelist who announced she was stepping away from writing. Not pausing. Not regrouping. Stepping away. Her reasoning was thoughtful and...
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On Writing Inn Love Again
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On Writing Inn Love Again - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Jody Brettkelly #SMUT Was one of the hashtags for an early review of my new romcom, INN LOVE AGAIN. First I was likeâŚis there really that much sex in my book? Itâs only two peppers out of five. The...
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What Happens When You Write About Spirituality in the Business World
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What Happens When You Write About Spirituality in the Business World - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Jenna Nicholas It started with the stories people wouldnât tell out loud. In boardrooms and investorsâ retreats, in the quiet corners after conferences, I kept hearing the same whispered confession...
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Interview With Jessica Handler
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Interview With Jessica Handler - Women Writers, Women's Books
Jessica Handler is the acclaimed author of award-winning novels and celebrated nonfiction, with features on NPR, in Tin House, Electric Literature, The Bitter Southerner, The Washington Post, and else...
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Authors Interviewing Characters: Linda Hartley
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Authors Interviewing Characters: Linda Hartley - Women Writers, Women's Books
ANGEL WING Itâs 1955. Ellen is driving to Belfast to search for the mother she has never known, and had thought long dead, when she has an accident. As her life hangs in the balance, flashbacks of her...
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What Happens When You Write About Spirituality in the Business World
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by Jenna Nicolas
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What Happens When You Write About Spirituality in the Business World - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Jenna Nicholas It started with the stories people wouldnât tell out loud. In boardrooms and investorsâ retreats, in the quiet corners after conferences, I kept hearing the same whispered confession...
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Check out our recommended reads for April!
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The Origin Story: How a Careerâs Worth of Frustration Became a Book
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The Origin Story: How a Careerâs Worth of Frustration Became a Book - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Kimberly Lee, SPHR I did not sit down one day and decide to write a book. That is not how this happened. What happened was more like a slow accumulation. Twenty years of watching the same thing pla...
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How Starting a Podcast Saved My Writing Life!
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How Starting a Podcast Saved My Writing Life - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Eva Langston A few years after my MFA graduation, a few of my former classmates got book deals. I was excited for them (of course I was!), but I was also filled with fear and shame. I felt like I w...
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Happy Pub Day, Allison Cundiff!!
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Writing Comedy Is No Joke by Sue Clark Author
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Writing Comedy Is No Joke - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Sue Clark My name is Sue Clark and I suffer from CWS. Thatâs comedy writing syndrome. Why do I have this compulsion to write comedy? You might think, because itâs a pleasant way to spend my day. It...
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Owning the Story: Marie Kuipers on Healing, Humor, and Writing Weâre All Mad Here
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Owning the Story: Marie Kuipers on Healing, Humor, and Writing Weâre All Mad Here - Women Writers, Women's Books
In her fearless and deeply personal memoir, Weâre All Mad Here, Marie Kuipers transforms a lifetime of complicated family dynamics, survival, and healing into a story that speaks powerfully to women n...
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How Starting a Podcast Saved My Writing Life
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How Starting a Podcast Saved My Writing Life - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Eva Langston A few years after my MFA graduation, a few of my former classmates got book deals. I was excited for them (of course I was!), but I was also filled with fear and shame. I felt like I w...
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Speak Up to Breathe Freely by Kate Woodworth
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Speak Up to Breathe Freely - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Kate Woodworth Itâs 1988, and Iâm in the back seat of the car, my mother at the wheel, one of my sisters beside her. Iâve just been picked up at Bostonâs Logan Airport after flying in from Salt Lak...
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I Spent Four Years Married to a Monster â and Then Wrote a Novel About it by Patricia Gordon Stevens
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I Spent Four Years Married to a Monster â and Then Wrote a Novel About it - Women Writers, Women's Books
Patricia Gordon Stevens is a counsellor who endured domestic violence and stalking before fleeing the family home. She cautions friends to pick up on signs that others missed in her case. By Patricia...
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HAPPY PUB DAY Laura Hulthen Thomas ! THE MEANING OF FEAR is out today, and we're featuring Laura on the site! Past is Present: The Inspiration for The Meaning of Fear
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Past is Present: The Inspiration for The Meaning of Fear - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Laura Hulthen Thomas Sometimes a novel is what happens when you just canât let things go. My inspiration for The Meaning of Fear came from the same impulse the novelâs main characters battle agains...
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The Land as Character by Victoria Tatum
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The Land as Character by Victoria Tatum - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Victoria Tatum My mother instilled in all six of her children a love of reading. She recommended books and had shelves of them for us to draw from. After she died I thought of that source of books ...
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From Claustrophobia to Empowerment: Why Hybrid Publishing Became My Path
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The Inspiration Behind Recipe for Joy
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by Monica Comas
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The Inspiration Behind Recipe for Joy - Women Writers, Women's Books
This book was born from griefâŚbut, also, from deep love. For years, I drove from New York to Cleveland to take care of my mom, going with her to treatments, cooking for her, doing whatever I could to ...
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The Magical Experience of Writing Romance Novels about Healing
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by Patricia Leavy
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The Magical Experience of Writing Romance Novels about Healing - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Patricia Leavy The Celestial Bodies Romances are a love letter to love itselfâlove in all formsâromance, friendship, country, work, art, and most importantly, learning to love ourselves. Tess Lee a...
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The Long Game: How Asking for Help Landed Me a Book Deal
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The Long Game: How Asking for Help Landed Me a Book Deal - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Linda K. Sienkiewicz The real work of a writer doesnât end with typing The End. When it comes to publishing a novel, it also takes time, tenacity, and the humility to know when you need help. The p...
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Keep Driving Those Nails, Ladies By Jean Gordon Kocienda
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Keep Driving Those Nails, Ladies - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Jean Gordon Kocienda One hundred years ago, the only daughter of a family in Rochester, NY, faced an unhappy life. One of her brothers had a mental disorder, and her parents assumed she would take ...
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On Writing The Obit Habit
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On Writing The Obit Habit - Women Writers, Women's Books
The Obit Habit was my first attempt at novel-writing, although I published To the Stars Through Difficulties first. The Obit Habit took me a dozen years to get just right. My first try at fiction, it ...
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No One Wants Another Middle-Aged Womanâs Memoir
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by Shannon Nering
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No One Wants Another Middle-Aged Womanâs Memoir - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Shannon Nering No one wants to read another middle-aged womanâs memoir about her weird and terrible life. That realization hit me like a bag of books to the chest during my second year shopping my ...
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We are delighted to feature
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Naked Writing: On Truth, Vulnerability, and the Words We Didn't Know We Had - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Marijke McCandless Nearly a hundred of us had gathered for a three-day retreat hosted by Outwildâ˘, devoted to building outdoor, value-driven lives. On the second afternoon, we sat beneath long wood...
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Feng Shui of the Soul
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Feng Shui of the Soul - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Alexandra Grabbe This morning, I stuck a Free-Stuff sign in our front yard. I was carrying my second load of miscellaneous items out of the house when a car pulled up. âAre you really giving away t...
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Inspired by Truth by Sally Dukes
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Inspired by Truth - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Sally Dukes I have always been in awe of those novels I read that are fiction at its best. You can delve deeply into a story with complex characters and intriguing narratives. The pages turn effort...
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"I had a plan. Iâd chosen personal keywords, to set the tone for my writing life: discipline and determination. I made a schedule. Gave myself deadlines. And the universe laughed."
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That Pesky Cloud
It can move on anytime now
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"Upon wiping away my tears, Iâm reminded of how the past is a door to healing if you can sift through the pain.â âBoo Walker
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An Interview with CiCi Donohue of âHow Could You Let This Happenâ by Jen Craven
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An Interview with CiCi Donohue of âHow Could You Let This Happenâ by Jen Craven - Women Writers, Women's Books
HOW COULD YOU LET THIS HAPPEN? I fight back tears as my best friend clutches her sonâs hand, the room silent except for the low beep of his life support machine. I couldnât bear it if this was my own ...
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Feedback doesn't always have to be harsh...it can be kind and constructive.
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Authors Interviewing Characters: Heather Cumiskey interviews Brynn Gallardo from The Sooner I Go
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Authors Interviewing Characters: Heather Cumiskey interviews Brynn Gallardo from The Sooner I Go - Women Writers, Women's Books
Authors Interviewing Characters: Heather Cumiskey interviews Brynn Gallardo from The Sooner I Go. THE SOONER I GO Perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover and Paige Toon, this suspenseful new adult romance ...
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The Story Behind the Story By Elene Catrakilis
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The Story Behind the Story by Elene Catrakilis - Women Writers, Women's Books
Elene Catrakilis My debut novel, Under an African Sky, is a story close to my heart because itâs set in South Africa, the country of my birth. In 1989, the country stood on the brink of change. The st...
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Dr. Ellenmorris Tiegerman: On Writing
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Dr. Ellenmorris Tiegerman: On Writing - Women Writers, Women's Books
In a novel of startling relevancy, with the recent assassination of right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk, Dr. Ellenmorris Tiegerman has written the second of her past life mysteries with God Den...
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âItâs Complicatedâ: Our Relationship With Book Reviews
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by Lorraine Devon Wilke
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âItâs Complicatedâ: Our Relationship With Book Reviews - Women Writers, Women's Books
by Lorraine Devon Wilke Ah, reviews. The Holy Grail of every merchant, company, production, businessperson, artist, entrepreneur, and, yes, author. We need them, we want them; we pursue them, convinc...
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Why so Mean?
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Why so Mean? - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Cindy Eastman Does harsh and critical feedback to writers make them better writers or can writers improve in a supportive and positive environment? We donât have to slash and burn writers to make t...
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The Voices in my Stories by Tracey Lee
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The Voices in my Stories - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Tracey Lee While I donât write about the women in my family I am definitely inspired by them. I donât write about their lives but find their tenacity and hopefulness woven into the fabric of my cha...
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You Are Never Too Old to Pursue a Dream
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by Dr. Susanne T. Eden
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You Are Never Too Old to Pursue a Dream - Women Writers, Women's Books
One woman finds meaning in her senior years through writing. Dr. Susanne T. Eden Ed.D. I never set out to write this book. As it turned out, I had no choice. I was compelled. So how did I, an 80-somet...
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Authors Interviewing Characters: Jess Lourey
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Authors Interviewing Characters: Jess Lourey - Women Writers, Women's Books
THE VERDANT CAGE The Wall was built to keep them safe. Or so they thought. For as long as seventeen-year-old apothecary Rose Allgood can remember, the towering stone Wall surrounding Noahâs Valley has...
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Valerie Saul's novel THE BADASS WIDOWS is out today, and we're featuring Valerie on our site!
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Against Ageism in Fiction - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Valerie Saul I have a confession. I usually hate older female characters in novels, and I am an older female! Older women in literature are too predictable. If women characters are in their fiftie...
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Wonderful piece by
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, on how she selects the subjects for her historical fiction novels. Her latest, The Woman and Her Stars, inspired by the true story of Caroline Herschel, the first woman to discover a comet, is out now!
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Her Life as a Novel - Women Writers, Women's Books
by Penny Haw Readers are fascinated by where authors get their ideas. With several events planned to celebrate publication of my fourth work of biographical historical fiction, The Woman and Her Stars...
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We're featuring seventeen-year old writer En Hui Ye today! She recently published her debut novel, The Longest Journey.
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When I Stopped Writing My Novel â and How I Found My Way Back - Women Writers, Women's Books
By En Hui Ye About halfway through writing my novel, I stopped opening my Word document. It wasnât anything dramatic. I didnât declare it was the end of my book. I just⌠drifted. Homework felt urgent....
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It Takes a Village to Write a Novel
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by Martha Conway
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It Takes a Village to Write a Novel - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Martha Conway I spend a lot of time alone. I like it. I like writing, I like doing research, I like thinking about what Iâm writing, and I like making notes and scene lists. When Iâm alone, I can d...
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