She Writes Press Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/tag/she-writes-press/ Thu, 17 Nov 2016 22:12:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Stepmother: Reflections on Writing a Memoir https://booksbywomen.org/stepmother-reflections-on-writing-a-memoir-by-marianne-lile/ https://booksbywomen.org/stepmother-reflections-on-writing-a-memoir-by-marianne-lile/#respond Fri, 18 Nov 2016 06:20:33 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=16866 It happened one night.  Totally unplanned. We were standing in the comfortably furnished living room, nuts on the table and chips next to the dip. The four couples stood casually, holding our drinks and chatting politely as you do when you meet people for the first time. The conversation was predictable. “Wasn’t it a beautiful […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/stepmother-reflections-on-writing-a-memoir-by-marianne-lile/feed/ 0 16866 Here’s Why: Short fiction by Anne Leigh Parrish https://booksbywomen.org/heres-why-short-fiction-by-anne-leigh-parrish/ https://booksbywomen.org/heres-why-short-fiction-by-anne-leigh-parrish/#comments Fri, 20 May 2016 09:11:05 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15771 Here’s why. You slump, shrink, curl down in your seat, never stand up straight. As if an arrow might pick you off. Not an arrow, a bullet. Not a bullet, a blow. Not a blow, words. Not words, looks. Here’s why. You’re a freak. Four inches in one year? Your father’s colleague says he keeps […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/heres-why-short-fiction-by-anne-leigh-parrish/feed/ 1 15771 Diva Mamas—Reluctant Mothers in Literature https://booksbywomen.org/diva-mamas-reluctant-mothers-in-literature-by-diana-y-paul/ https://booksbywomen.org/diva-mamas-reluctant-mothers-in-literature-by-diana-y-paul/#comments Wed, 04 May 2016 08:29:28 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15640 Happy Mother’s Day to all women for we are mothers both to ourselves as well as to others! And as Mother’s Day approaches, we are surrounded by cards and suggested gifts in the image of the perfect mom. The fictional mothers I will focus on are reluctant mothers at best, who hesitantly take on the […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/diva-mamas-reluctant-mothers-in-literature-by-diana-y-paul/feed/ 2 15640 5 Mistakes I Made Writing My First Novel https://booksbywomen.org/5-mistakes-i-made-writing-my-first-novel-by-abbey-campbell-cook/ https://booksbywomen.org/5-mistakes-i-made-writing-my-first-novel-by-abbey-campbell-cook/#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2016 12:34:02 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15266 I began writing my first novel thinking I’d get it done in a year. It ended up taking me four. Sure part of this was due to my full time job, and propensity to procrastinate, but if I had known then what I know now I probably could have made it happen. Here are the […]

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