Xlibris News| Women’s Day Free Online Archive

by Thomas McKinley

Xlibris News| Rare Books Worth Stealing

An article from The Bustle shares how, in celebration of the 2018 International Women’s Day the Cambridge University Press has put together a large body of blog articles, book chapters, articles, and interviews by famous women thinkers, and made them available for reading in an online archive. For free.       For the entire […]

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10 Badass Women of Literature – Part 2

by Thomas McKinley

Get to know more badass women of literature in this second installment of the Xlibris Author Advice. 6. Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) She is best known as one of the pioneer women writers of the female erotica genre. The French-Cuban diarist, whose journals detailed her own erotic adventures, self-published her first book Under a Glass Bell. […]

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10 Badass Women of Literature – Part 1

by Thomas McKinley

March 8 is International Women’s Day, calling for a fitting homage to all the badass women of all ages and status in the world. We have selected a list of extraordinary women that have made a big difference in the literary world for their brazenness and not-a-care-in-the-world demeanor. This list from a Flavorwire article by […]

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Women Gaining More Power in Self-Publishing

by Thomas McKinley

A research by FicShelf, an online community for bibliophiles and writers, showed that more female authors have been doing well in self-publishing. FichShelf discovered that 67% of bestselling authors on popular self-publishing platforms are women compared to 61% of top-selling male authors on Amazon’s top 100 traditionally pubbed books. The results were released on International […]

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