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Have You Ever Lost a Hat by Barbara Silkstone

I lost everything including my home, my car, and even my retirement accounts. I was physically attacked inside and outside a court building. My daughter and baby granddaughter were threatened. [More…]

From 200 Rejections to the Top Amazon 200! by Sibel Hodge

Ever since I was old enough to scrawl my first word, which was Halibaaaaa, I knew I wanted to write books. OK, so the word didn’t actually make sense, and [More…]

How A Big Yellow Truck Changed My Life by Christine DeMaio-Rice

An orange peel grapple is a big machine. Excavator on the bottom. Long arm in the middle. And a metal grapple on the end that looks like a horror movie [More…]

Just Me and James Dean by Cheryl Bradshaw

When I was a little girl I used to make up stories at bedtime for my younger sister, Michelle. The most vivid centered on a boy and a girl who [More…]

Writing From a Flour Sack by Dani Amore

Fact: I was born on a bathroom floor. Literally. My arrival into this world was followed seconds later by an unceremonious drop onto the cold tile of St. John’s Hospital [More…]

A Kinky Adventure by Anne R. Allen

When I started writing funny women’s fiction fifteen years ago, if anybody had given me a realistic idea of my chances for publication, I’d have chosen a less stressful hobby, [More…]

Turning Medieval by Sarah Woodbury

Sometimes it’s easy to pinpoint those moments in your life where everything is suddenly changed. When you look across the room and say to yourself, I’m going to marry him. [More…]

Holes by Suzanne Tyrpak

I used to think I had to be perfect. Of course, I fell short of perfection on a regular basis so I frequently felt like a failure. The only way [More…]

Mrs. So Got it Wrong Agent by Prue Batten

After writing forever, I decided to finally go down the independent road in 2008. At that time, it was called self-publishing and the track I decided to take was POD. [More…]

I Burned My Bra For This? One Woman’s Fantasy.

By Cheryl Shireman I’m a Baby Boomer. Which means that I remember bell-bottoms, Happy Days, and having only three channels on the television. I played Donny Osmond albums on a [More…]