#amreading Free books time travel fiction women's fiction

Strong Women in Fiction – Free Books to get by 12/31/21

I have some special, time-limited deals to offer you! For your winter reading, the link below leads to novels featuring strong women. ALL FREE — when you sign up for the author’s newsletter. Offer deadline: December 31, 2021. For me, reading rekindles the fires of inspiration, love, and hope. I especially love reading in the winter months, when the fire of life turns inward, and we’re all bundled up. So many novels feature male characters.…

Continue reading

#amreading Italy love stories novels set in italy romance novel romance novels set in italy women's fiction

Isn’t It Romantic? More Novels Set in Italy

Isn’t It Romantic? If you can’t travel to this romantic, beautiful land, you can fall in love reading novels set in italy. They take you to what may be everyone’s dream getaway destination. Read my earlier post on this for a long list. Here are some added romantic novels, and even some romantic nonfiction books set in that magical, sensuous country.

Continue reading

#amreading #amwriting craft of fiction craft tips writer tips writing disciipline Writing life

Blogs to Get Your Writer Mojo Working

Blogs about writing are like my morning newspaper, they get my writer mojo. Each day, I wake  up and read  stuff on my phone while I’m still in bed, and into the coffee phase of waking up. I have a writing practice of using the first two  hours of  the day for my creative self — drafting new chapters, poems, story ideas, and editing works in progress. To get into the swim, I read about…

Continue reading

#amreading #amwriting #fiction Italy The Renaissance Club time travel time travel romance novel travel to italy Uncategorized women's fiction writer tips

The Renaissance Club Is Available for Pre-Order!

Pre-order THE RENAISSANCE CLUB, my time-travel, romantic novel. Would you give up everything, even the time in which you live, to be with your soul mate? That’s the question my main character, May Gold, has to ask herself when her adventures in Italy in The Renaissance Club bring her face-to-face with her idol, 17th century genius sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini. She has always admired — maybe more than admired — the fiery, expressive artist who could…

Continue reading

#amreading #amwriting craft of fiction craft tips novel writing novelists reading self-publishing Writers writing tips

The Writing Path

I’ve decided to launch from my Rocket Kid Writing blog into a newly titled blog, which will be integrated with my new website (stay tuned!) as The Writing Path. It’s not an easy path, involves some hard pulling at times, some days of feeling lost in the woods, but for me, it’s a compelling path of self-discovery. I have to keep going forward. And though it often feels solitary, I’m surrounded by writer friends, whether…

Continue reading

#amreading #fiction holidays Labor Day novel novel writing Publishing story writing writing time writing tips

Writing on a Holiday – Dodging Parties to Get to the Writing Desk

By Writing Holiday, I of course mean Writing ON a Holiday. Holidays are better known as Writer’s Retreats, for all writers truly addicted to their art seize on the first amount of free time to face the blank page. Or the written page that desperately needs revising. Novel writing occurs over an extended period of a year or more. Long form story writing requires you to visit your work as often as possible — that’s…

Continue reading

#amreading #amwriting #fiction aimee bender ghost story love story Magical realism magical realism fiction sarah addison allen susanna kearsley women's fiction

Magical Realism in Women’s Fiction

Magical realism in women’s fiction gives the reader and writer a broader canvas of possibilities. When you’re reading about women and their relationships (the broad definition of women’s fiction), elements of magic provide visual ways to describe a character’s feelings, frame internal events, and create adventures. Magical realism in women’s fiction can be small touches or big events, such as time travel. I used two magical realism elements in my novel The Renaissance Club ,…

Continue reading

#amreading #fiction love story novel reading The Renaissance Club

Books, Books, Swimming in a Sea of Books

E-reading devices have made me a fiction-reading junkie. Hooked on Books was the name of a used book store up the road, which is sadly now closed because they sold paper books. But the books I buy on non-paper are proliferating like rabbits in springtime on my e-reading devices. I am so very hooked because of the ease of reading. On my phone, I always have a book with me. I’m about to launch a…

Continue reading