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An interview with Luciana Ricciutelli, editor-in-chief of Inanna Publications, the oldest feminist literary press in Canada

Jocelyn Cullity — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 05:06:24 +0000

An interview with Luciana Ricciutelli, editor-in-chief of Inanna Publications, the oldest feminist literary press in Canada. Interview by Jocelyn Cullity / Truman State University Luciana Ricciutelli has been the editor-in-chief at Inanna Publications in Toronto since 1992. Founded in 1978 with the goal of making current writing on a wide variety of feminist topics accessible to […]

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Jennifer Cohen: On Writing Falling Forward

Jennifer Cohen — Thu, 21 May 2020 11:45:33 +0000

As a new mom and marketing executive, it wasn’t always easy to find the time to write, edit, re-write, edit again, but I did it. Because that’s what we do for the things that matter, don’t we? We simply make the time. Falling Forward, my debut contemporary women’s fiction novel, was published on May18th, 2020 […]

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Second Chances

Anju Gattani — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 06:00:10 +0000

By Anju Gattani They say cats have nine lives but life doesn’t offer a second chance, at least not in the world of publishing. One book gets one release date, your baby’s out in the world and there’s no turning back. Now, what if I told you that’s not true. Would you believe me? What […]

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Independently Minded: One Woman’s Journey from Traditional to Self-Publishing by Anna Campbell

Anna Campbell — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 09:35:33 +0000

I spent most of my life wanting to be a published writer. By the time it happened, in my 40s, I was convinced I’d never achieve my ambitions. I sold Claiming the Courtesan to Avon HarperCollins New York at auction in April 2006 as part of a 3-book deal. Cue “dreams come true” music. Suddenly, […]

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The Trick to Getting Published

Ruby Speechley — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 07:11:08 +0000

By Ruby Speechley Disclaimer: There is no trick, no magic formula. But there’s always a way. Early influences At three years old, before I could even read, my parents bought me a stack of hardback books by Enid Blyton. The brightly coloured characters on the covers were so enticing! I can still recall my deep […]

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Female Thriller Author Ditches Traditional Pub Track

LS Hawker — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 14:40:12 +0000

In October, 2002, I stood across the street from the old HarperCollins Building at 10 East 53rd Street in midtown Manhattan and pointed it out to my traveling companions. “Someday,” I intoned tearfully, “Someday my novels will be published there.” “Great,” my husband said pointing at our cranky three-year-old in her stroller. “I think Layla […]

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The Best Books in Life Aren’t Always Free

Densie Webb — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 05:12:14 +0000

If you’re like me (and pretty much every other author on the planet), your most fervent desire is to find readers who’ll love your writing and be ready, willing and able to pay for the opportunity to read all those beautiful words you’ve toiled over. But, to paraphrase our dear writer pal, Will Shakespeare, “therein […]

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My Twisty Turny Road to Publication – Susan Crawford

Susan Crawford — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 14:40:40 +0000

I have always written. When I was a child, I had diaries jam-packed with angst and secrets, and, later, notebooks filled with fairly random thoughts, short-story parts, poetry. Writing was my escape as was reading. It was my therapy, my emotional purging, my joy. When my family exasperated me, an unhappily common occurrence, I would […]

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My Road to Publication

Amanda Brittany — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:18:50 +0000

I’ve always wanted to write, and even as a child I loved making up stories, and telling them to my younger sister. She would often ask if I could tell her one at night, to help her get off to sleep. Unfortunately, although, according to my English teacher, I had a good imagination, I was […]

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Cover Story

Evie Gaughan — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 08:57:41 +0000

When my publisher asked if I had any ideas in mind for the cover of my new book, I’m not sure they were prepared for the Pinterest board I’d been adding to steadily for over a year! I had eleventy-million ideas and couldn’t begin to think how they could all be distilled down to one […]

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