Blogging Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/tag/blogging/ Fri, 28 Apr 2017 10:54:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Blogging On And On… https://booksbywomen.org/blogging-on-and-on-by-joy-kluver/ https://booksbywomen.org/blogging-on-and-on-by-joy-kluver/#comments Sun, 12 Mar 2017 08:32:48 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=18050 I have to thank Clare Mackintosh. Not only for her brilliant books (I Let You Go and I See You) but for a class she did last January in conjunction with Writers & Artists. Her talk was about social media and building an author platform. At that stage, I had written one book and was […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/blogging-on-and-on-by-joy-kluver/feed/ 1 18050 Why Writing Blog Posts Makes Me Queasy https://booksbywomen.org/why-writing-blog-posts-makes-me-queasy/ https://booksbywomen.org/why-writing-blog-posts-makes-me-queasy/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2017 07:54:14 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=17605   Since I’ve become a published author in 2014 I have been pressured by mavens of the publishing universe and author friends to participate in blogging—a seldom-welcome avalanche of words. Maybe my ten years at the computer, writing, have turned me into a recluse, but I have to admit that I rarely appreciate the barrage […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/why-writing-blog-posts-makes-me-queasy/feed/ 2 17605 Blogging For The Non Blogger https://booksbywomen.org/blogging-for-the-non-blogger-by-amy-poeppel/ https://booksbywomen.org/blogging-for-the-non-blogger-by-amy-poeppel/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2016 21:55:01 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=17223 As a debut fiction writer, I was thrilled to be invited to join The Debutante Ball, a website that features five debut authors as they go through the joys and challenges during their year of publication. Each writer is assigned a day of the week to post a blog (I’m the Tuesday girl), and each […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/blogging-for-the-non-blogger-by-amy-poeppel/feed/ 1 17223 How Book Blogging Launched My Career as an Author https://booksbywomen.org/from-blog-to-book-how-book-blogging-launched-my-career-as-an-author/ https://booksbywomen.org/from-blog-to-book-how-book-blogging-launched-my-career-as-an-author/#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2016 08:45:24 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=16792 “This book is horrible. I can’t believe people are reading this. I have to tell them not to read it. I think I’ll start a blog.” And so it began. My unfortunate run-in with the book-that-must-not-be-named upon the recommendation of a popular parenting magazine led me to write my very first blog post ever. I […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/from-blog-to-book-how-book-blogging-launched-my-career-as-an-author/feed/ 3 16792 How I Turned My Blog Into A Book https://booksbywomen.org/how-i-turned-my-blog-into-a-book/ https://booksbywomen.org/how-i-turned-my-blog-into-a-book/#comments Sun, 03 Jan 2016 13:02:13 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=14595 While I was lecturing on the creative writing programme at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, a couple of students asked me if I realised I couldn’t get through a seminar without mentioning food or drink. Really? I mean, really??!! But they were right. And I began to notice how I might describe a bruise […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/how-i-turned-my-blog-into-a-book/feed/ 3 14595 Coming Back to Writing https://booksbywomen.org/coming-back-to-writing/ https://booksbywomen.org/coming-back-to-writing/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2014 04:29:52 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=12303 When I was a little girl I made a choice. At least I thought I did. I was nine years old. Mousey and a bit serious. I only cared about two things – reading teenage horror novels and Westlife. My Aunt was allaying herself of some furniture – she had a beautiful house – and […]

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