Kristin Rockaway, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/kristinrockaway/ Fri, 13 Oct 2017 06:46:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Sex In Women’s Fiction, Part 3: Advice From The Experts https://booksbywomen.org/sex-in-womens-fiction-part-3-advice-from-the-experts/ https://booksbywomen.org/sex-in-womens-fiction-part-3-advice-from-the-experts/#respond Fri, 13 Oct 2017 06:00:24 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=20476 Part 3 of our Sex In Women’s Fiction Series, Read part 2 HERE It’s surprisingly easy to write bad sex. In fact, cringeworthy sex scenes are so ubiquitous that the UK magazine, Literary Review, hands out an annual award to distinguish the somewhat awful from the truly terrible. According to their website, the purpose of […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/sex-in-womens-fiction-part-3-advice-from-the-experts/feed/ 0 20476 Sex In Women’s Fiction, Part 2: Sex Sells (Sometimes) https://booksbywomen.org/sex-in-womens-fiction-part-2-sex-sells-sometimes/ https://booksbywomen.org/sex-in-womens-fiction-part-2-sex-sells-sometimes/#comments Fri, 06 Oct 2017 06:55:20 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=20474 Part two of our Sex in Women’s Fiction series: Read Part One HERE Before we went out on submission with The Wild Woman’s Guide to Traveling the World, my agent, Jennifer Johnson-Blalock, asked me to make a few revisions. The goal was to make the book stronger and more saleable to readers and publishers alike. […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/sex-in-womens-fiction-part-2-sex-sells-sometimes/feed/ 1 20474 Sex In Women’s Fiction, Part One: Writing Sex https://booksbywomen.org/sex-in-womens-fiction-part-one-writing-sex-by-kristin-rockaway/ https://booksbywomen.org/sex-in-womens-fiction-part-one-writing-sex-by-kristin-rockaway/#respond Fri, 29 Sep 2017 05:00:54 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=20470 Part one of a three part series about Sex In Women’s Fiction I write stories about women – stories that chronicle the wonderful, harrowing, funny, mess, fabulous, and occasionally sordid details of their lives. And, inevitably, there comes a time in every manuscript when my main character decides that she’s going to have sex. Before […]

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