Countdown to Publication: Queries!

By Gloria Feldt | September 21, 2010 |

Goddess willing and the crick don’t rise, my long- delayed website—the one I’ve been angsting about on these pages for several weeks–will soft launch Friday 9/24 and be fully public by the date of my next newsletter blast 9/28. (If you want to sign up for my newsletter, by the way, just e-mail me.) Check back next week for the urls. (Hooray! Corks about to pop!)

Meanwhile…are you signed up for HARO? It stands for Help a Reporter Out. Three times a day, you get queries from a wide array of media outlets. It takes a bit of sifting through, but I’ve secured several worthwhile media opportunities, and connected with some terrific women’s topics reporters like Liz O’Donnell. You can also sign up as a journalist and issue queries for your articles, books, or blogs. Check it out.

Peter Shankman, who started HARO, usually ends his opening speil with “Queries!” And, SheWriters, my Countdown this week is all about my queries for you.

I’m creating a blog dedicated to discussing the “9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power” that I have written about in No Excuses. Will you help me prime the pump with your answers to my queries?

You can respond to any questions that resonate with you in comments section below. I’ll pop your comments onto my website as soon as it’s ready. Feel free to include a link to your book or website so I can help you spread your word(s) too.

Ready? Queries!

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Get Your Coven Together and Create a Revolution on Friday the 13th

By Gloria Feldt | November 13, 2009 |

If you are a writer and a woman, you’e probably heard about the great new website SheWrites started by a very powered woman, Kamy Wicoff, and already boasting a membership of over 5000. I just posted this over there and couldn’t resist sharing it with you. Seems that Publishers Weekly released its annual list of Top 10 Books, and guess what, there wasn’t a single book by a woman on it. So Kamy swung into action, which I love. The rest of the story will be obvious. (BTW, if you’re a woman writer, join up today by clicking the picture on the right.)

So here’s what posted at SheWrites:

I like Friday the 13th. Thirteen is a great number. Why? First of all, my birthday is on the 13th, April 13th. Every once in a while it lands on a Friday, and I feel just as lucky then as when it falls on a Tuesday. The gifts are just as much fun to open. Publisher’s Weekly has handed us at SheWrites a gift by calling attention to the lack of books by women writers on their Top 10 list.

I also like Friday the 13th because 13 is the number of a coven. Covens are powerful. Every women needs her coven, no matter what her religion is or what she thinks about witches. We need our circle of women friends, our old or new girls network. Our sister courage. Our girl gangs. One of us alone can accomplish a lot, but 13 of us together make a movement. Remember, thirteen colonies started a revolution and formed a new nation in 1776. Kamy has challenged us to create our own revolution.

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