Women Writers, Women's Books, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/author/admin/ Wed, 25 Apr 2018 19:57:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Why Write? https://booksbywomen.org/why-write-by-erica-brown/ https://booksbywomen.org/why-write-by-erica-brown/#respond Mon, 23 Apr 2018 10:18:59 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=22414 Like J K Rowling, the big impetus to me getting my first book written – and then published – was poverty. No money, no job on the horizon and a mountain of bills. To put it poetically – or as a story teller would – it was like being a donkey beaten with a big […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/why-write-by-erica-brown/feed/ 0 22414 Exploring All Forms of Writing https://booksbywomen.org/exploring-all-forms-of-writing-by-jan-caston/ https://booksbywomen.org/exploring-all-forms-of-writing-by-jan-caston/#respond Sun, 22 Apr 2018 16:01:53 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=22445 I was offered my first professional writing contract in the 1980s – a two novel deal writing ‘bonkbusters’ for a major publishing house. It was in the days when vanity publishing was frowned upon and only traditional publishing gave an author credibility. This was long before Amazon invented Kindle. I thought I was made for […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/exploring-all-forms-of-writing-by-jan-caston/feed/ 0 22445 The #IAmSubject Project https://booksbywomen.org/iamsubject-project/ https://booksbywomen.org/iamsubject-project/#comments Fri, 16 May 2014 22:03:58 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=11391 We received over seventy submissions for the #iamsubject project.   The #iamsubject project is follow-up project to Diane DeBella’s memoir, I Am Subject, and is about learning from the lives of women writers so we can change the course of our lives. Diane’s memoir was made available at $2.99 through her sponsorship period to make it more affordable to share decades of […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/iamsubject-project/feed/ 5 11391 The #iamsubject Project with Diane DeBella https://booksbywomen.org/iamsubject-project-diane-debella/ https://booksbywomen.org/iamsubject-project-diane-debella/#respond Sun, 06 Apr 2014 03:54:29 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=11264 Join the #iamsubject project! Diane DeBella, our Site Sponsor through June 5, 2014, is launching the #iamsubject Project inviting girls and women to participate in increasing awareness of the need for girls and women to stay subject of their own lives. She is inviting you to write your own #iamsubject story on your blog or […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/iamsubject-project-diane-debella/feed/ 0 11264 12 Tips for Writing Good Book Reviews https://booksbywomen.org/12-tips-writing-good-book-reviews/ https://booksbywomen.org/12-tips-writing-good-book-reviews/#comments Sat, 15 Mar 2014 16:05:42 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=11139 12 Tips for Writing Good Book Reviews There are a number of steps to take to write a good book review, but the most valuable tip of all may be this one: remember that book reviews have more than one audience. They aren’t only for readers. Book reviews are valuable to the book author who […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/12-tips-writing-good-book-reviews/feed/ 16 11139 Don’t have a Facebook Page yet? Reconsider… https://booksbywomen.org/calling-all-women-writers-with-facebook-pages/ https://booksbywomen.org/calling-all-women-writers-with-facebook-pages/#comments Fri, 14 Mar 2014 04:00:43 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=525 Don’t have a Facebook Page? Reconsider… Most important, it enables anyone who wants a connection with you, to easily click, without personally bothering (interrupting, daring to request friendship of…) you. It shows up in Google searches (and Bing and Yahoo searches), as the FB pages are public. It is what was intended by Facebook, for […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/calling-all-women-writers-with-facebook-pages/feed/ 197 525 Guardian Books’ Claire Armistead interviews Barbara Taylor Bradford and Sheila Heti https://booksbywomen.org/women-literature-barbara-taylor-bradford-sheila-heti/ https://booksbywomen.org/women-literature-barbara-taylor-bradford-sheila-heti/#comments Fri, 07 Mar 2014 21:22:15 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=11082 Summary: “Claire Armitstead joins the publisher Lynne Drew and the author Barbara Taylor Bradford to discuss why women are still under-represented in the world of books.” We are grateful to Helena Agustsson, Communications Assistant at the National Literacy Trust for sending us this. Here is the latest Guardian Books podcast compiled in collaboration with the […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/women-literature-barbara-taylor-bradford-sheila-heti/feed/ 1 11082 Elaine Neil Orr – A Different Sun https://booksbywomen.org/elaine-neil-orr/ https://booksbywomen.org/elaine-neil-orr/#comments Tue, 03 Dec 2013 05:00:49 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=9972 Elaine Neil Orr’s A Different Sun “As lyrical and passionate a novel as has ever been written…” Lee Smith “An important book, one which unflinchingly explores tensions between Christianity and African religions, slavery and freedom, madness and love.”—Wayne Caldwell, author of Cataloochee and Requiem by Fire In 1853, newly married Emma Bowman arrives in Africa and steps into a world […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/elaine-neil-orr/feed/ 4 9972 Call for Submissions https://booksbywomen.org/call-submissions/ https://booksbywomen.org/call-submissions/#comments Mon, 25 Nov 2013 12:54:37 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10531 Occasionally writers, editors and publishers let us know about Call for Submissions. We haven’t had the resources to add this reporting to our daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly work, but we can open a spot for you to post calls that you know of. We recommend that you highlight WHAT is being asked, the DEADLINE, […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/call-submissions/feed/ 4 10531 An American Bride in Kabul by Phyllis Chesler https://booksbywomen.org/american-bride-kabul-phyllis-chesler/ https://booksbywomen.org/american-bride-kabul-phyllis-chesler/#comments Wed, 20 Nov 2013 23:46:29 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10461 An American Bride in Kabul by Phyllis Chesler   We’re excited to bring you another book – this one by the noted feminist and author of Women and Madness, Phyllis Chesler.  “The dramatic, riveting, and timely tale of how one woman’s harrowing ordeal in a harem in Afghanistan shaped her into a modern feminist leader […]

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