Kiri Blakeley, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/kiriblakeley/ Tue, 15 Nov 2016 11:31:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Is Your Book Book Club Material? Ask A Book Club! https://booksbywomen.org/is-your-book-book-club-material-ask-a-book-club/ https://booksbywomen.org/is-your-book-book-club-material-ask-a-book-club/#comments Sun, 11 Dec 2016 10:28:05 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=17080 Beta readers. How necessary they are, but how hard to find. At least they were for me. I didn’t have that “writing bestie” who was dying to read my copy and who could be that magical combination of brutally truthful yet rah-rah encouraging. Most of my relatives stick to history or political tomes. My friends […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/is-your-book-book-club-material-ask-a-book-club/feed/ 1 17080 Method Writing: When Imagining Just Isn’t Enough https://booksbywomen.org/method-writing-when-imagining-just-isnt-enough-by-kiri-blakeley/ https://booksbywomen.org/method-writing-when-imagining-just-isnt-enough-by-kiri-blakeley/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2016 08:55:37 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=16979 I sat at my computer, poking myself in the throat. Not the throat exactly, but the soft pucker just above the sternum, a place called the jugular notch. As I tapped, the muscle below my ribcage tingled queasily and bile fizzled up my throat. I wrote: He doubled over, feeling as if he’d swallowed a […]

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