
Writer confession time: I write short. Woefully short. Maybe it’s the years spent writing articles as a freelancer, working to deadline, cutting my own writing down, but in recent years I have picked up a bad habit. Where I used to cut millions of words as a fresh writer, I
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It should come as no surprise that reading is a huge part of my writing process. I’m a compulsive reader, so any word that comes around my eyes will get read at some point. What surprises me is the breadth of work that helps me through my own writing. I
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I’m deep in writing mode lately, which means that I slip off the radar socially. The social media strategist and marketer in me is cringing, believe me. I don’t know about you, but the real work of writing occurs under the surface for the most part, as things are thought
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At long last (or is it long?), the paperback of The Heroine’s Bookshelf has been published in paperback by Harper Perennial! What does this mean for you (aside from a chance to buy stocking stuffers for the many bookish women in your life)? Why, giveaways, of course! Buried In Print
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I’m delighted to announce that there’s another readalong in the works! As you may know, the paperback of The Heroine’s Bookshelf will be released by Harper Perennial on November 15, putting the book in some pretty illustrious company, including that of Zora Neale Hurston, the Harlem Renaissance writer who gave
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