Women’s History Month is one of my favorite months of the year. I love March, because it’s my birthday month, because the daffodils are up, at least in Central Texas, and because we celebrate women. As a feminist, it makes me happy. Of course, I wish we celebrated women every month, but we’ve got toContinue reading “Women’s History Month Roundup”
Author Archives: Robin Henry
A Room of One’s Own, Does it Matter?
How important is a room of one’s own? Virginia Woolfe was convinced that a writer would never be able to produce without a room and an income. This frees the writer from some of the distractions of life. Sometimes, I find myself wishing for a space that is mine, unshared, uninterrupted, and undivided. I recentlyContinue reading “A Room of One’s Own, Does it Matter?”
Read Like a Writer Book Club Recap; The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier
For February, we read The Anomaly. If you are interested in joining us for the next meeting, in April, please send Robin an email at readerlybooks[at]gmail.com Background: This book was on several “best of” lists for 2021, including the New York Times. Here is a sampling of reviews and the publisher’s page: Penguin Random HouseContinue reading “Read Like a Writer Book Club Recap; The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier”
Creating a Calendar for Your Novel
Legend has it that Jane Austen used calendars for the years in which her novels were set to make sure she was accurate about dates, days of the week, and also to help make sure she was making sense of her timeline. Well, dear reader, you can do this too, whether it is historical fiction,Continue reading “Creating a Calendar for Your Novel”
A Useful Woman by Darcie Wilde
Howler Alert! I discovered Wilde’s series by accident when I was doing some checking on Austen Fan Fiction for the JASNA Bibliography. What a fabulous pseudonym! I mostly enjoyed this entry in the Cozy Mystery genre and found it delightful, except for one ENORMOUS Howler. If you are a fan of historical mysteries, femaleContinue reading “A Useful Woman by Darcie Wilde”
Book Club for Writers
The Read Like a Writer Book Club begins this month! It will feature book discussions of great novels both past and present through the lens of a writer. We’ll deconstruct their work looking for lessons in craft, style, and story, so we can apply those lessons to our own works in progress. Our first bookContinue reading “Book Club for Writers”
Review of Lucy Foley’s The Paris Apartment
Full disclosure, I received an eGalley of this book prior to publication in exchange for a review. Lucy Foley has a talent for a certain kind of Thriller. She collects a group of entitled, mostly unlikeable characters in an isolated location, makes sure there are plenty of secrets nobody wants revealed, empowers an unreliable narratorContinue reading “Review of Lucy Foley’s The Paris Apartment”
Loglines as Revision Tools
Here’s a handy tip that you may find useful when thinking about starting revisions. See if you can create a logline that encapsulates your story. If you can, it should hang together and you have the skeleton on which to assemble your draft. If you can’t, that may indicate that something is missing in theContinue reading “Loglines as Revision Tools”
Reflection on the Chawton House Reading Group, women in history and Mary Eleanor Bowes…
When Covid started and my in-person book clubs and groups started canceling, I went looking for something inspiring. What I found was the Chawton House Reading Group. For the uninitiated, Chawton House is the home of not only Jane Austen’s brother and in the same village as Jane Austen’s House Museum, but it is alsoContinue reading “Reflection on the Chawton House Reading Group, women in history and Mary Eleanor Bowes…”
Books about Writing that I enjoyed in 2021…
Are you looking for something to inspire you to write? Here is a list of favorite books and web pages about writing that I read in 2021. I am also including one about women’s history, since there were a bunch of inspiring women in it. Not least, Eleanor Roosevelt. Alberts, Laurie. Showing & Telling: LearnContinue reading “Books about Writing that I enjoyed in 2021…”