Vanessa Lafaye, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/vanessalafaya/ Tue, 19 Jan 2016 21:32:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Short Fiction: A Sliver of Ivory by Vanessa Lafaye https://booksbywomen.org/short-fiction-a-sliver-of-ivory-vanessa-lafaye/ https://booksbywomen.org/short-fiction-a-sliver-of-ivory-vanessa-lafaye/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2016 22:06:32 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=14668 He wanted you to have this. It was written with exaggerated clarity on a scrap of paper, as if the author was unsure of the reader’s grasp of English. The torn paper, rather than a proper card, another signal from the sender. It was signed Elaine, with a rounded, buxom capital E. On the padded […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/short-story-the-long-way-home-by-vanessa-lafaye/feed/ 0 14112 Letter to My Pre-publication Self https://booksbywomen.org/letter-to-my-pre-publication-self-by-vanessa-lafaye/ https://booksbywomen.org/letter-to-my-pre-publication-self-by-vanessa-lafaye/#comments Sun, 13 Sep 2015 04:35:34 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=13995 It’s now 8 months since the book was first published, so I decided to invent time travel (patent pending) to give you a preview of what will happen and what you will learn during this crazy, baffling, exciting, scary time. You can thank me later. 1. Writing the book is not job done. It’s just […]

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