“Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.” 
 Shannon L. Alder

Books. Authors. Literary Events and More.

Is reading a favorite past-time? Are you looking for new books to read or are you an author/writer wanting to support others doing the same.    Here we highlight useful articles on writing as well a featured books and Connected Women  Authors  and women in related fields who are turning stories into page-turners.

Obstacle No More with Tina C. Hines

“No black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much’. Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much’…No woman has ever written enough” 
 bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

“I have observed a phenomena about women in this community and is how quick they are able to form opinions and “ideas” about other women without any knowledge of their character and just by virtue of some preconceived notion often fueled by envy, bias and downright bad mind which in many cases have no basis or truth to it.i hate when biotches try to use their lackluster lives as a yardstick for mine…” 
 Crystal Evans, Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis

“Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.” 
 Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Women writers specifically… are the ultimate outsiders.

-Janet Fitch