Earlier posts suggested, more than suggested, that aging women protagonists, especially if they’ve got ambition and skills and a sustaining hope of love, are anathema to editors. Surprising to me, that posting got little attention. The posting that did get attention, twice as much, was the one saying that women writers write a lot more, and a lot better, men than men write women. Four times as many men as women wrote in to say that men can write women. I don’t fault the men; they’re men, after all, but where are the women in this discussion? What’s more, at the Gloucester event, when I talked about the anathema thing, the aging women, readers all, writers plenty, turned their heads away. Help me out here.
Leslie insisted, so: the author, looking like a minister sternly sermonizing. As it happens, I was at the edge, and sometimes beyond the edge, of weeping throughout. Wrote the book with no hint of a tear, but something ticked over … Continue reading
Write a review on Amazon. No, you can do this. Five star rating would make best sense. (http://www.amazon.com/Beauty-A-Novel-Frederick-Dillen-ebook/dp/B00DPM7X1E/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1 Also, Gloucester reading today. Live author. http://www.gloucestertimes.com/lifestyle/x1387846214/Author-to-read-from-Gloucester-inspired-novel And for those who thought that, with large dogs and small children and pretty … Continue reading
Hate? Professional reviewers like your work or not. It gets interesting with more likes or more nots. Now civilians weigh in, online, and enough liking or not can move sales – a good thing. But one interesting tribe of civilians … Continue reading
REAL SIMPLE raves about BEAUTY. I don’t know the magazine, but Leslie tells me to get a grip and spread the word. They say, “Vivid…This uplifting story reminded me that sudden changes in life, though unnerving, can produce beautiful results.” … Continue reading
Men. Usually a less than serious event. But here a serious question. Can they, may they, should they, must they not, write women? No. Please say. Because BEAUTY is a woman named Carol MacLean, and before she took over, I … Continue reading
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