#Female Authors

[softhe4rted]

to begin with, the sweet grass by mary oliver, from “devotions”

#i’m still alive i have time to build #she’s right she’s so right #if she lived a life maybe i can live mine #after all #i have to be the thing that saves me #poetry #it gets better i know it i know it #hi my post #mary oliver #female authors

[sweetarethediscords]

Support an independently published character-driven, slow burn, adult fantasy-romance novel featuring a female lead with just as much bite as her bark.

With only 45% of our goal reached and less than 3 days left to our Kickstarter, The Maiden of the Barren Rime needs your help!

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The Fallow Peaks, a frozen wasteland of cruel mountains and blood thirsty beasts, where the veil between the Realm of Mortals and the fae realm thins, where very few adventurers have dared to tread, where very few guides are qualified to lead.

Guides such as Mina, unfortunately.

Isolated by choice, Mina finds her solitude interrupted by a sudden request from the Crown of Lanholde to lead their latest band of contractors up the Peaks to finish their quest and deliver their bounty to the capital. The overly friendly five-some she’s contacted to escort seem hell-bent to step over her every boundary, no matter now stern and scornful she acts, worst among them their leader, Sebastian Windenhofer.

Will the fire wizard warm Mina’s cold heart? Or will the reasons behind her icy demeanor turn them all to ice before he gets the chance?

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A character-driven adult fantasy-romance narrative featuring a female protagonist with flaws that serve more to the story than just being a character trait. The Maiden of the Barren Rime is a book about love and family and acceptance and people, all while throwing you into an amazing, fascinating, fantasy world. 

AND, as this is a slow-burn romance, there are well-earned, intimate scenes for those who like a little spice with their catharsis. 😉

With plans to expand the series into a trilogy, your backing will help The Maiden of the Barren Rime reach it's intended audience, and a fresh style of narrative into the fantasy-romance drama.

Check it out on Kickstarter

#bookblr #writing #nanowrimo #the maiden of the barren rime #fantasy romance #fantasy novel #self publishing #indie author #slow burn #female authors #female protagonist #dnd #ttrpg #romance novel

[aelinfireheartgalathynius]

I get that some people think it's funny to call SJM books "faerie porn" and that's fine, but...

It's gotten to a point where, when people talk to non-SJM readers who ask about the books, SJM readers will say with their whole chest "oh they're faerie porn books haha it's literally just porn!"

And it's started to get really grating for me. I've been reading SJM since Throne of Glass came out. These books are SO much more than the sex scenes, or even the romance (tbf romance is a common thread in all of her books, though same with a lot of male-written fantasy and those books don't get called romantasy, but I digress).

These books are something utterly unique and magical within the fantasy genre. I've been reading fantasy since I was in first grade (I'm 29) and I can honestly say that I have not come across anything like these books. Yes, SJM has flaws. Her books, especially early ones, have flaws. But overall, they are feats of world building, master classes in plot pacing and foreshadowing, and filled with enthralling characters and worlds and histories.

Diminishing them to the few sex scenes (a few of which are admittedly wild), most of which are also very emotionally significant to the characters, is doing Sarah and all of her books a disservice. And honestly, it's doing other potential readers a disservice when they decide not to read SJM due to the internet referring to it as porn and not "real" fantasy.

No one says that about authors like Patrick Rothfuss, but the second book in his hit fantasy series spends a significant amount of time focusing on the main character learning all about sex from a random forest faerie (don't get me started). Many male adult fantasy authors include sex scenes, some of which are extremely graphic, but no one calls their work porn — no, it's often referred to as "real" fantasy.

#sarah j maas #sjm #fantasy #fantasy books #female authors #romantasy #throne of glass #a court of thorns and roses #crescent city #mine

[veronicavervet]

A poem i wrote whilst i was travelling home 🪷🌵🌴

#poet #poem #spoken word #women writers #female authors #writerscorner #british poetry #Crete #Greece #travel #cactus #plants #love poem #jean paul sartre #carl sagan #philosophy

[chroniclesofnadia111]

🙏🏾Publishing my first book at this time in life has been a deeply sentimental and spiritual experience. Thank you to all who have supported. I truly believe these poems and musings will deeply resonate in the hands of whoever it comes in contact with. Words are Life and Art is eternal. 🌹

If anyone wants a real insight into my mind, you can find that in Hopeful Nets. It’s me at my most transparent and vulnerable.

Available now on Amazon at the link below.💫✨👇🏾 📖 Blessings.

#books #books and reading #book quotes #books are life #book release #book publishing #book lover #book review #books and literature #poetry and poems #poetry book #caribbean poetry #poetry and poetics #poetry #women writers #women authors #female writers #female authors #caribbean writers #blacktumblr #blackgirlmagic #support #support women #black voices #new books #new author #amazon kdp #amazon #purchase #philosophy

[idontcarecarebear]

🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩A red flag in any book I read that makes me instantly put it down is when an author goes into detail describing the chest or sexualising the body shape of an underage female character. I hate it whether it goes into a heavy detail or does it offhandedly, I just have to stop reading it. Especially if the point of view is from a grown man who is supposed to be the protagonist I support while reading. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

#books #readers #book red flags #books & libraries #books and reading #book review #reading #authors #writers #female characters #writing #gross and unnecessary #fiction #non fiction #red flags #male authors #female authors #It's gross you're gross

[theyoungwritersmind-aristanelson]

#writer motivation #female writers #writer inspiration #writer #writers #write #writerblr #writer blog #young writer #creative writing #fiction writing #novel writing #female authors #female novelists #author #aspiring novelist

[pensivegladiola]

Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire

#books #literature #book recommendations #quotes #literature quotes #novella #seanan mcguire #wayward children #magic #novel #reading #reading recommendations #female authors #wayward children series #booklr

[tonsillessscum]

“Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!”

-Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

#mary shelley’s frankenstein #frankenstein #frankenstiensmonster #mary shelley #mary wollstonecraft #Mary Wollstonecraft shelley #academia #gothic #gothic literature #speculative fiction #writing #author #quotes #dark acamedia #books #feminist writing #feminist literature #female authors

[avara-avara]

journal entries from the last few months

#avara avara #dark academia #journal #journal inspiration #journal inspo #photo diary #writer in the dark #writing inspiration #journaling #this book keeps my alive #writers and poets #found poetry #collage art #female authors #light academia #academia aesthetic #academic #university aesthetic #boston aesthetic #college aesthetic #oxford #harvard #yale #ivy league #ivy leave aesthetic #diary insp #journal ideas #fragments of my heart #pages of me #writer aesthetic

[theereina]

I think I might be stepping back into my writer's side soon. I miss it. It was definitely a mental escape from the world around me.

#writers on tumblr #writers and poets #writeblr #female authors #authors #poets on tumblr

[sweetarethediscords]

With only 53% of our goal reached and less than 24 hours left to our Kickstarter, The Maiden of the Barren Rime needs your help!

________________

The Fallow Peaks, a frozen wasteland of cruel mountains and blood thirsty beasts, where the veil between the Realm of Mortals and the fae realm thins, where very few adventurers have dared to tread, where very few guides are qualified to lead.

Guides such as Mina, unfortunately.

Isolated by choice, Mina finds her solitude interrupted by a sudden request from the Crown of Lanholde to lead their latest band of contractors up the Peaks to finish their quest and deliver their bounty to the capital. The overly friendly five-some she’s contacted to escort seem hell-bent to step over her every boundary, no matter now stern and scornful she acts, worst among them their leader, Sebastian Windenhofer.

Will the fire wizard warm Mina’s cold heart? Or will the reasons behind her icy demeanor turn them all to ice before he gets the chance?

________________

A character-driven adult fantasy-romance narrative featuring a female protagonist with flaws that serve more to the story than just being a character trait. The Maiden of the Barren Rime is a book about love and family and acceptance and people, all while throwing you into an amazing, fascinating, fantasy world. 

AND, as this is a slow-burn romance, there are well-earned, intimate scenes for those who like a little spice with their catharsis. 😉

With plans to expand the series into a trilogy, your backing will help The Maiden of the Barren Rime reach it's intended audience, and a fresh style of narrative into the fantasy-romance drama.

Check it out on Kickstarter

#bookblr #writing #nanowrimo #the maiden of the barren rime #fantasy romance #fantasy novel #self publishing #indie author #slow burn #female authors #female protagonist #dnd #ttrpg #romance novels

[womeninfictionandirl]

Ursula Le Guin by Allison Adams

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was American novelist and poet, renowned for her work in science fiction and fantasy.

#ursula k. le guin #ursula le guin #Allison Adams #portrait #art #artwork #female portrait #women in art #female authors #women writers #women artists #irl women/girls

[edgarallenhoe31]

My fave female authors

#litterature #female authors #simone de beauvoir #clarice lispector #joan didion #ottessa moshfegh #tove ditlevsen #eve babitz #sylvia plath #anaïs nin #they shaped me as a person

[pensivegladiola]

Magic 101:

Still waiting on your letter? Check out these schools in the meantime…

#magical boarding schools #magic #books #book recommendations #literature #novels #female authors #women authors #books about magic #harry potter #the magicians #magicians #deadly education #naomi novik #vita nostra #marina dyachenko #bunny novel #mona awad #scrapegracers #the poppy war #rf kuang #seanan mcguire #wilder girls #rory power #dark academia #book covers #books with magic

[magnetictapedatastorage]

Alice Bradley Sheldon (born Alice Hastings Bradley; August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author better known as James Tiptree Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 until her death. It was not publicly known until 1977 that James Tiptree Jr. was a woman. A constant theme in Sheldon's work is gender; she was influenced by the rise of Second-wave feminism. In the last years of her life, she suffered from depression and heart trouble, while her husband began to lose his eyesight, becoming almost completely blind in 1986. On July 21, 1977, she wrote in her diary: "Ting agreed to consider suicide in 4–5 years". Ten years later, on May 19, 1987, Sheldon shot her husband and then herself.

#wikipedia #female authors