At bookwitty.com, Véesah Afifi offers: “Children…in their innocence can’t fathom the weight of some of the most important quotes they hear in bedtime stories,” Afifi writes. “However, we’re adults now,…Continue readingYour favorite quote?
How Thea Winthrop became the world’s greatest wizard Back in 2002, back when Harry Potter WAS the YA genre – (Number One, and then twenty empty spaces behind it before the…Continue readingGirls can. Girls SHOULD
In interviews I am often asked about authors who have influenced me and I usually name a couple or so. But there are many more and I have recently come…Continue readingWho made me?
Jo Eberhardt took a look at her bookshelves and realized to her surprise that only 24% had a female protagonist. At Writer Unboxed, she wrote a thoughtful essay about it…Continue readingDo men talk too much?
A couple of years ago I put together an anthology entitled simply “River”, a collection of stories by some remarkable writers, including Irene Radford, Nisi Shaw, Joshua Palmatier… In my…Continue readingThe Only River
Over the mumble years since I first read “Little Women” as a girl, I have taken more than one quiz about which character I wanted to be, or was most…Continue readingThe Death of Beth
Thinking about audiobooks I listen to music, and music can move me to tears. It produce visuals which run like movies on the backs of my eyelids if I close…Continue readingRead or listen?
At Bustle, Charlotte Ahlin says writers are sexy partners and offers 11 reasons to date a writer One example: They are good liarsWriters lie for a living… sort of. You…Continue readingAre Writers Sexy?
At LitHub, author Dorthe Nors writes about the conundrum that so many middle-age women face. “I write books about middle-aged, childless women on the brink of disappearing—or you could say—on…Continue readingThe disappearing women
Back when I was nineteen years old and steeped up to my innocent ingenue ears in The Matter of Britain, I wrote a novel about Queen Guenevere. A publisher who…Continue readingWhen I was young and innocent