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September 21, 2015
Diversity Month Author Spotlight: Sonali Dev
In the spring of 2014, I attended the Chicago-North RWA Spring Fling and I heard a lot of buzzing about a new author that was going to hit the romance world with a cultural storm. That October, The Bollywood Affair was released and Sonali Dev did just that. I laughed, I cried, I ate Indian food […]
September 19, 2015
Diversity Month Author Spotlight: Sidney Bristol
It can never be said that NYT & USA Today Bestselling author Sidney Bristol has had a ‘normal’ life. She is a recovering roller derby queen, former missionary, and tattoo addict. She grew up in a motor-home on the US highways (with an occasional jaunt into Canada and Mexico), traveling the rodeo circuit with her parents. Sidney […]
September 16, 2015
Diversity in Fiction: Including the Mentally Ill
Guest Author – Katie De Long People are a mess of neural connections and impressions, and that can make it really daunting to write a convincing character, let alone a realistic mental illness. Mental illnesses, and neurodivergence can affect the way that we form those impressions, and the way that we receive them, too. Schizophrenia […]
September 10, 2015
Diversity in Fiction: Black Girl Moan – Women of Color and Sexuality in Popular Fiction
Guest Author – Eliza David It is an intriguing responsibility to write erotic romance in this post-Fifty Shades era. Your readers value you as an expert in the art of writing sex in all of its beautiful forms: straight, BDSM, gay, lesbian, group, etc. They expect to salivate as they read about ‘pulsating centers’ and […]
September 9, 2015
Diversity Month Giveaway
To honor WfYL’s first Diversity Month, I have a special giveaway for you all! Currently, five (5) prizes are up for grabs: One $10 Amazon e-gift card from me A signed paperback of any Hard Ink book of your choosing from Laura Kaye (two winners) A Tale of Two Djinns book poster from Mina Khan […]
September 7, 2015
Diversity in Fiction: Sneaking in a Little Religion
Guest post by Charles Ott Boy, I am some kind of writer! The last of the beatnik iconoclasts, an untrammeled free spirit who cares nothing for the approval of Pecksniffian society! A true literary Cong guerrilla, that’s me, subverting the worldview of the squares and metaphorically tweaking their noses! I wrote a novel with a […]
September 5, 2015
Diversity in Fiction: Beyond Tokenism and Stereotypes
Guest Author – Brenda Murphy What is diversity? For many white people the first thing that they think of is people of color. This leads to writers randomly inserting characters of color into storylines because the writer felt obligated too, or the call for submissions stressed that they were looking for diversity of story lines, […]
August 29, 2015
Sexy Saturday: Girls’ Night In
It’s Girls’ Night In, but your friends are knee deep in dirty diapers. No worries. Author Eliza David has got you covered. Join the ladies of the Cougarette Series for a booze-fueled story swap you’ll never forget. From Girls’ Night In: A Collection of Short Stories based on The Cougarette Series (Released on August 28th, […]
August 27, 2015
Eliza David – Girls’ Night In Tour
Welcome to the world of the cougar, where women over forty are the new twenty! Eliza David has coined her books as being “Cougar Lit,” chick lit for the maturing female crowd. But anyone can enjoy these fun, sexy, entertaining reads and aspire to being a cougar when they get older, or at least feeling […]
August 15, 2015
Sexy Saturday: Victoria Catherine
Another Saturday evening has rolled around and you know what that means, right? It’s time to kick back and read some smut. What are you drinking this week? I’m feeling cheap (he he) and went with Bud Light Mang-O-Ritas in a can. Don’t judge. This week we’ve got newcomer to the erotica scene, Victoria Catherine.Her […]
