Win a Chief Joseph Blanket when attending the WWW Meeting on Oct 27!

Wow, this year has flown by! The 24th annual Women Writing the West Conference will begin in Walla Walla in just a few days!  The Pendleton Woolen Mills generously donated a Chief Joseph Blanket for the 2018 Women Writing the West Conference. This gorgeous blanket will be raffled at the annual business meeting, held Saturday morning atContinue reading “Win a Chief Joseph Blanket when attending the WWW Meeting on Oct 27!”

Hands-On World Building

As writers, when we talk about world building, we often discuss the senses. What are our characters seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and physically feeling? Who are the people who make up the world, and what are their individual agendas and misconceptions of their surroundings? What time, place, landscape, and cultural norms are integrated into theContinue reading “Hands-On World Building”

New Release: WRITE TO ME, by WWW Member Cynthia Grady

One of our new WWW members, Cynthia Grady, will have a children’s book out on January 9th: Write to Me: Letters from Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left Behind. Set in the 1940’s, Write to Me tackles the difficult subject of Executive Order 9066, when Japanese Americans were imprisoned in the desert. TheContinue reading “New Release: WRITE TO ME, by WWW Member Cynthia Grady”