Feisty Deeds II is underway!We are so excited to begin to see FD “Batches & Brews” underway. We are so curious to see what submissions we will receive! This newsletter has a call to action, so if you are a writer be sure to reply. If you ar...
Congratulations, — you’ve survived to 2025!I’ve had this newsletter planned out for a while. I was going to tell you my exciting writing goals for 2025, but do you want to know the truth? I’m tired. It’s hard to act excited right now.Maybe it’s the...
It's here! It's here! Come read all about it!The White Deer of Kildare now available for your e-reader, I am drinking apple cinnamon tea and the moon is glowing through a scrim of clouds. It is midwinter, and I have a midwinter story for you. This ne...
Dear ,Welcome to the first edition of the Feisty Deeds newsletter! It looks like you joined our list after we had already sent out the November newsletter. We will usually send a newsletter about every 1-2 months, but we wanted to make sure you got o...
How is your December going, ? Over here…Outside, it is chilly and misty. Inside, we have a lot of wiggling, bouncing, puppy energy. Inside my head, I am juggling a lot of details about releasing these fairy tale retellings, which involves a great dea...
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A Mini History Moment about gloves in Shakespeare’s time, the Regency, and the role of the female gloveress Intro: On our recent England trip, we went to Shakespeare’s Birthplace, because what writer can go through the English midlands and not stop b...
Water Changes our Visual, Aural, and Sensory Input Imagine standing and looking out at the ocean. Our field of view is simplified with a straight horizon and the rhythmic repetitive sounds plug us into a synchrony or “groove” (that’s the scientific t...
Two years ago, I had never heard the term Women’s Fiction, although I had been reading it for my entire life. On Women’s Fiction Day 2022 (when I did not know it existed), my last child was leaving toddlerhood, and I knew that it was time for somethi...
I like books that are uplifting and offer an escape from the quotidian world, but I don’t want to just turn off my brain and float. (That’s a valid goal for books too, just not the one on this review site!) The books that I find the most invigorating...
I like books that are uplifting and offer an escape from the quotidian world, but I don’t want to just turn off my brain and float. (That’s a valid goal for books too, just not the one on this review site!) The books that I find the most invigorating...
