Ink Dance: Essays on the Writing Life A cup of inspiration, a dash of understanding, a bouquet of wisdom for writers new and old. From the desk of writer and editor Deborah J. Ross comes a collection of warm, insightful … Continue reading
Dear Auntie Deborah: How can I find a real publisher for my YA novel, instead of one of the many vanity or scam presses? — Tearful Wannabee Dear Tearful: Do your research about publishers. Find out which accept unagented submissions. Check … Continue reading
As I have said before, I was never very good at being a girl, but I didn’t want to be a boy, either. What I wanted was to be able to do the things boys did while still being a … Continue reading
This series, set in a small town in Scotland, focuses on a group of women who love bellydancing. These ladies are bigger, older, stronger, smarter, raunchier, tougher, and more out-there than you might expect. I fell in love with them.
Continue readingWho is your favorite character of all time? Or better yet, who is in the A list; the Top Ten, for example. All genres are eligible for your list. Literary, science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, mainstream, horror, historical anything, classic … Continue reading
by Brenda W. Clough This material is in the nature of an esprit d’escalier. Over Memorial Day I was at Balticon, on a panel about revising first drafts. Unfortunately the great editor Gardner Dozois had just passed away, and the … Continue reading
This post first appeared in May 2018 on the Milford SF blog as “Tinkering with First Person Point of View” by Brenda Clough. My latest novel, A Most Dangerous Woman (SerialBox , May 2018), is a sort of sequel to … Continue reading
This month I’m celebrating my new book. It won’t be launched for a few days and from that moment it’ll be able to be ordered in more places than on the publisher’s website, but until then, admire the cover here: … Continue reading
I’ve been sitting here this morning watching a Dr. Phil. An old one, a rerun from 2014. I don’t usually watch this show or other talk shows because generally they bore me or there’s too much drama. (A reason I … Continue reading
by Brenda W. Clough Oh, you’ve heard of ‘Calamity’ Jane Austin. She was a native of Texas, a noted women’s author in the early 19th Century. She even has a web page, summarizing her corpus of novels. Surely you have … Continue reading
