By Nicki Ehrlich and Joyce Sherry All through her school years, Nicki read, and Nicki wrote. She wrote essays, she wrote poetry, she wrote songs. She finally wrote a novel. It remains in a drawer. Sometimes it kicks and screams, trying to get out. Sometimes it finds patience and waits. It’s a good story, butContinueContinue reading “To Be Published…Soon”
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Who Are These People?
By Margaret Mizushima “We love your characters, we love your setting, we love your writing, but we don’t like your plot.” Years ago, these words came to me in an email from an editor who’d agreed to read my manuscript featuring Deputy Mattie Cobb, her K-9 partner Robo, and veterinarian Cole Walker. I’d spent yearsContinueContinue reading “Who Are These People?”
Why I Volunteer for WWW
Women Writing the West has been around for 31 years, but I became a member just five years ago. The COVID lockdown gave me the impetus to finish my first book manuscript. I attended a Women in Publishing webinar and an agent said we should join writers’ organizations in our genre. Mine is history. IContinueContinue reading “Why I Volunteer for WWW”
