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This was a really good post, by Jane Roper over at Grub Street Daily: What is women’s fiction, and what does it mean to be a “women’s fiction” writer? This part struck the feminist in me particularly hard: As best I can tell, Women’s Fiction …
My boy finished his last week of preschool last week. This first year for us – first year of school for him, first year working on anything in a very focused capacity for me – went by sort of unnoticed, I think. We started it, …
This week’s excerpt is actually a title, from my in-progress collection of stories and poems: How to Stand on Your Hands *** notes: And so I went on a quest for the ultimate mangled dandelion. And I took a damn lot of pictures of them …
It’s what I had in mind, almost, but at the same time, it’s totally not. And these have me fuming: Kirkus Indie BlueInk Reviews Both venues are charging self-published authors several-hundred dollars for a review. As far as I know, publishers do not pay any …
This post was inspired by Chuck Wendig’s “Why Your Self-Published Book May Suck a Bag of Dicks.” (Very funny, by the way – go have a read!) And I also have my indie author hat on today too, so this is what you get. I’m …