Tag: women
Romance is a popular genre with around 1.08 billion sales in 2013. Surprisingly, it isn’t the box office hits that drive the sales. Self-published novels have grown the genre …
The winners of the National Book Awards were announced a few days ago, garnering a great deal of attention for the fact that three out of four of the …
Judy Blume is one of America’s most beloved and controversial authors. She has 29 published books that have sold over 85 million copies. Her first book, The One in the …
Ladies, why is it that it’s 2016 and we still can’t get any recognition in one of the world’s leading industries? Women are totally conquering the literary world–according to …
I read my share of poetry (as well as books) because sometimes you’re just looking for that direct punch of emotion that can only be summed up in a …
I’ve read many books through the course of my life thus far, but few authors seem to capture my attention quite like Erica Spindler. With strong female protagonists that …
Sara Deeter
November 9, 2016
Adult, Book Lists, Classics, Drama, Fantasy, George R.R. Martin, Human Interest, J.K. Rowling, News, Politics, Potterheads, WTF, Young Adult
Like me, many of you are probably in mourning for America right now. There aren’t enough words, enough tears in the world to convey the depth of the devastation and …
If you take a look at the English literary canon, you’re bound to find particular stand-out heroines therein: Austen’s Elizabeth Bennet or Brontë’s Jane Eyre, for example. Yet, in …
If you’re a fan of foreign literature, there’s nothing more frustrating than having such a passion tempered by the inability to find translations of particular books. And when it …
Times have changed. Women are no longer expected to be housewives who spend all day taking care of the children, cooking, and cleaning. Sexism is slowly starting to fade …
Legendary female pilot Amelia Earhart may have lived a life omitted from history books, a recent study suggests. In 1937, Earhart — the first woman pilot to fly across …
Seanan McGuire is absolutely freaking amazing. When a friend first introduced me to her books, I didn’t expect to become addicted quite so quickly. But it’s literally an impossibility NOT …
Sara Deeter
October 28, 2016
Chick Lit, Drama, Fantasy, Feminism, Historical Fiction, Human Interest, Romance, Unpopular Opinions, Women, Young Adult
Over two thousand years ago, the story of Persephone was born. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter (written in the 600s B.C.) is the first known documentation of this Greek goddess’s dramatic …
According to the will of Alfred Nobel, a famous Swedish inventor primarily known for thinking up the explosive dynamite, the Nobel Prize in Literature is a prestigious prize that …
Australia! Home to more than just kangaroos, in recent years, books from Australia are becoming high quality works. Home to close to 24 million people, Australia is essentially an …
With Halloween fast approaching, everyone is planning their awesome Halloween costumes for trick-or-treat or a ghoulish party. For one night a year, people of all ages, all over America, …
YouTube Channel: Rowan Ellis From the Description: Is ‘Game of Thrones‘ Feminist? Surely not, right? But Season 6 of the Emmy winning show might add some new evidence into the …
Sophie Logan, sole proprietor of Sharper Editing, has always loved books. Like so many other book nerds (myself included), Logan dreamed of becoming a writer when she grew up. Books …
If you think that the fight for women’s fair representation in comics has cropped up only recently…well, you’d be wrong. The battle has been raging for longer than you’d …
More authors are choosing to go with self-publishing over submitting to a big named publishing house. It can be disheartening to get rejected several times, even if you repeat …