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#WritersCoffeeClub 2504.02 International Children’s Book Day! What makes for a good book for children?

I've no expertise other than being a fan of a certain cartoon that was supposed to have a 5-11 year-old demographic but succeeded because it didn't talk down to its audience. I also wrote a fantasy story in a 7-year-old's voice.

I think almost any story would work with the exception of things like bloody horror, excessive violence, or sex. Love between friends, people who are different, ghosts of family, even living with war are fair albeit difficult worthy topics, as well as is slice-of-life and finding normalcy in a not-normal world. The use of simpler vocabulary is a must, but a word or two that requires a dictionary is the happy medium, making the reader feel like they're also growing by participating. Storylines must be simplified appropriately, but neither dumbed down nor made condescending, and for goodness sake, never sugarcoated. There's plenty of hacks out there that can write a treacle tart that you can read to put a young kid to bed. A story that gently teaches about the real world that parents and children can appreciate and discuss? That's a priceless thing.

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#PennedPossiblities 633 — How did you choose the title for your story, and what significance does it hold for you?

Mars Needs Women was a 1968 schlock female-exploitation film. The title has had staying power (pun intended) even if the film didn't. My feminist SF short novel (now in revision) is about a woman from an endpoint technological religio-fascist society (2024 thru the 2100s) that takes biblical patriarchy seriously and leaves women few options but to be exploited. I wanted to show how women might run a society differently if they could get their chance.

The title came to me quickly, with the verb set instead to the past tense: Mars Needed Women. This is because women were contracted for colonization purposes, to have children. It's from a recruitment poster early in the story. When the colonization effort goes bankrupt and men die disproportionately compared to the imported women, the dynamics of power change. Over the 25 year span of the story, women and their predominately female native Martian children take over the jobs and then governing. When the women declare themselves an independent matriarchal nation, Earth's patriarchy slanders (ring a bell about modern time?) Mars' women so as to have an excuse to put down the "rebellion."

However, women don't fight like men. War isn't a game when you are keeping your children alive… This is why Mars needed women to survive.

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Power, Purpose, and Historical Fiction — Meet Sam Foster

What does it mean to write #historicalfiction that’s both deeply researched and boldly personal?

In this new episode of Audio Signals #podcast on ITSPmagazine, I sit down with #author Sam Foster to talk about the creative process behind Thy Mother Is A Lioness, his newest work exploring powerful women in #Renaissance Italy and the hidden strength passed through generations.

We talked about:

🖋️ #Writing from experience vs. researching the unknown

📚 Blending truth with #fiction without rewriting #history

💡 #Creativity as a lifelong purpose—not just a profession

🖥️ Using #Substack to share stories directly with readers

It’s a story about #storytelling.

A reflection on identity, curiosity, and the drive to ask: Why?

Teaser (below) youtu.be/65BPBklx-I0

📺 Watch the full Episode: youtu.be/awj5Oul0mus

🎧 Listen to the episode: audiosignalspodcast.com/episod

📖 Read Sam’s work: samfosterbooks.com/

Subscribe to Audio Signals Podcast for more stories about storytelling and storytellers!

#storytelling #book #historicalfiction #writingcommunity #podcast #authors #creativeprocess #medici #renaissance #readers #writers #books Sean Martin, CISSP

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Sarah J Hoodlet

This is an insightful read. Less of an instruction manual (thank god), and more revelations about how being an INFJ and writing often go hand-in-hand.

Much of it is anecdotal, which I'm not overly fond of. However, there have been a couple of gems worthy of my quotes journal. Like this one.

Enjoy the journey, and let your inner light shine brightly through your words. 💖

A paperback copy of a book titled "The INFJ Writer: Cracking the Creating Genius of the World's Rarest Type", by Lauren Sapala. The book is placed on a table above a leather-bound journal, where a quote is written. The quote reads as follows: "And remember, the fun is all in the journey. Take each step as it comes to you and enjoy it while it lasts. There is no end goal. Instead, every day is its own reward. Just focus on shining the brightest that you can and bringing more of the real you out with every word that you write." –pg 107
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"Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly #podcast exploring key issues currently shaping #Israel and the #Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan, speaking with author and scholar #DaraHorn.

Horn is the #author of #novels and non-fiction, including “People Love Dead Jews,” “Eternal Life,” “A Guide for the Perplexed,” and now her first book for young #readers, “One Little Goat.”

A #graphicnovel, “One Little Goat,” was dreamed up by a young Horn and written decades later alongside the uniquely grungy #illustrations of Theo Ellsworth."

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Liminal Fiction

I love sharing some of my author friends with y'all. Check out J.C. Rycroft

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JC Rycroft is a queer fantasy author living and writing on unceded Wadawurrung land in Australia. Their work draws on high and epic fantasy tropes, mixed with a dollop of queer romance, humour and wit, flawed but fabulous feminist heroes and diverse-in-all-the-ways characters, liberally sprinkled with philosophical concepts ...

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Today in Labor History April 2, 1840: Émile Zola, French novelist, playwright, journalist was born. He was also a liberal activist, playing a significant role in the political liberalization of France, and in the exoneration of Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army officer falsely convicted and imprisoned on trumped up, antisemitic charges of espionage. He was also a significant influence on mid-20th century journalist-authors, like Thom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer and Joan Didion. Wolfe said that his goal in writing fiction was to document contemporary society in the tradition of Steinbeck, Dickens, and Zola.

Zola wrote dozens of novels, but his most famous, Germinal, about a violently repressed coalminers’ strike, is one of the greatest books ever written about working class rebellion. It had a huge influence on future radicals, especially anarchists. Some anarchists named their children Germinal. Rudolf Rocker had a Yiddish-language anarchist journal in London called Germinal, in the 1910s. There were also anarchist papers called Germinal in Mexico and Brazil in the 1910s.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #zola #germinal #anarchism #writer #fiction #strike #dreyfus #antisemitism #rebellion #novel #author #books #france #mining #coal #journalism @bookstadon

Poster by Léon Choubrac advertising the publication of Zola's novel Germinal in Gil Blas, 25 November 1884. By Léon Choubrac (1847-1885) - [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1672934
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