Jane Austen's Contributions to Women's Financial Independence
How many times have you heard someone say that romance novels aren’t “real books?” Fantasy is fine, mystery and sci-fi is fine, but romance is “drivel.” It’s because romance is mostly the domain of women writers and women readers. Period.
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Excerpt from Reputation, An Easy Thing to Lose
I’m super excited to showcase an excerpt from my upcoming debut novel, Reputation, An Easy Thing to Lose. Enjoy!
The Red Pen!!
You know that feeling when you have been working on something for forever and think it’s perfect, then another person causally, within seconds of looking at it, finds the flaw you never could focus on?
How to Art?
How do you describe the process of making art to someone? Since I decided to publish my books, I’ve been asked by a lot of people, “How do you write a book? Where do you get your ideas? What’s the first step?” And the real answer is – Hell if I know!
I’ve written a book…now what?
So, I’ve written my book. But what do I do next? When I started this journey more than five years ago now, I thought that the hardest part would be fining 100K+ words to put down in a row that told something of a coherent story. I’ve since found out that writing the book was the easy part.
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