• It's time for some writing prompts! Craft a story that highlights a powerful female lead character. You can make this a nonfiction story and write about...

    Writing Prompts for Female Protagonist

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    In March, we highlighted some amazing books that featured strong females throughout history as a way to celebrate Women’s History Month. From queens to women at the forefront of science and discovery, these women made remarkable history and also paved the way for more women to come behind them and be empowered and successful in their reach for more. But it seems we may have forgotten to include some writing prompts! So now, we turn the pen (or keyboard) over to you! Craft a story that highlights a powerful female lead character. You can make this a nonfiction story and…

  • To help celebrate Women’s History Month, we’ve put together a list of 10 books with strong female protagonists, important nonfiction, and biographies ...

    Women’s History Month Reading List

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    Women have been at the center of history-making moments for centuries. From Cleopatra and Joan of Arc to the suffragettes in the early 20th century and the strong women who embodied Rosie the Riveter during World War II to present-day female heroes around the world—women’s stories are worth celebrating. To help celebrate Women’s History Month, we’ve put together a list of books with strong female protagonists, important nonfiction, and biographies about women, as well as a book to read with your children. Fiction Little Women My Antonia Beloved Nonfiction The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Hidden Figures Amelia Earhart: A…

  • A Woman Author by Trade, A Woman Author At Heart - Xulon Press

    A Woman Author by Trade, A Woman Author At Heart

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    When it comes to encouragement, optimistic writers of faith are what move me most towards a positive mindset regarding life. Any book, including several from our beloved Xulon authors, that prompts more faith and trust in the Heavenly Father always push me, the voracious reader, to “gobble” up the literature and ingest its principles for future use in my life. However, it has become clear to me over the years of reading faith-based encouragement books that there is a definite difference between how women and men write tomes of encouragement. Men tend to write motivational books as more of an…

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    Call Her George: Women Writers with Male Monikers, Part 2

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    What do the names George Elliot, Ellis Bell, Isak Dinesen, George Sand, and J.D. Robb all have in common? These are all names women writers have used to publish their books. In honor of Women’s History Month, this blog invites you to gain perspective on the female writer’s motives behind using a male pseudonym. So why would a female writer use a male name? Looking at this from a sociological perspective, some female writers felt their female identities prevented them from being taken seriously. Using a male name ensured a female writer was taken seriously, and invited the then male…