Maddie Dawson, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/maddiedawson/ Mon, 28 Dec 2020 20:08:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Quotes That Might Save You—or At Least Comfort You While You Write By Maddie Dawson https://booksbywomen.org/quotes-that-might-save-you-or-at-least-comfort-you-while-you-write-by-maddie-dawson/ https://booksbywomen.org/quotes-that-might-save-you-or-at-least-comfort-you-while-you-write-by-maddie-dawson/#respond Mon, 28 Dec 2020 07:29:38 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=31868 Maddie Dawson is the bestselling author of eight novels about love, crazy families, secrets, parenthood, and–yes, they have reasonably happy endings. Kind of like life. Her newest, A Happy Catastrophe, was released on May 25, 2020.  We’re delighted to feature her today!  Quotes That Might Save You—or At Least Comfort You While You Write By […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/quotes-that-might-save-you-or-at-least-comfort-you-while-you-write-by-maddie-dawson/feed/ 0 31868 The Book in the Drawer, or Writing About Your Family Members https://booksbywomen.org/the-book-in-the-drawer-or-writing-about-your-family-members-by-maddie-dawson/ https://booksbywomen.org/the-book-in-the-drawer-or-writing-about-your-family-members-by-maddie-dawson/#comments Sat, 28 Jul 2018 08:32:02 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=23696 I started my first novel by accident. I was on the phone with my mother at the time—and to keep myself sane while I talked to her, I idly started typing what she was saying in her animated, breathy, giddy voice. She had just that day decided to get married again! To a man she […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/the-book-in-the-drawer-or-writing-about-your-family-members-by-maddie-dawson/feed/ 3 23696 Oh, You Write Fiction? What Kind? https://booksbywomen.org/oh-you-write-fiction-what-kind-by-maddie-dawson/ https://booksbywomen.org/oh-you-write-fiction-what-kind-by-maddie-dawson/#comments Tue, 07 Mar 2017 07:53:43 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=18526 Someone asked me the question again last night. “Oh, you write fiction? What kind?” I sighed. I’ve had six novels published, but I still don’t know how to answer this question. I usually start out by saying what the publisher calls my books on the contracts. “I write women’s fiction,” I say. The trouble is […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/oh-you-write-fiction-what-kind-by-maddie-dawson/feed/ 7 18526 The Trouble With Writing About Family https://booksbywomen.org/the-trouble-with-writing-about-family-by-maddie-dawson/ https://booksbywomen.org/the-trouble-with-writing-about-family-by-maddie-dawson/#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2016 21:49:56 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=17210 Let us take a tiny moment from our otherwise busy day to think how difficult it must be to be related to a writer. We are not easy people, after all. Many of us are perhaps a bit moody, tense and insecure, and possibly have a slight tendency to scribble dialogue or check our Amazon […]

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