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Jane Austen and a Women’s Right to Refuse

Hello Friends! April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. So, as your resident ultra-feminist, I would like to take my time this month to talk about how Jane Austen inserted themes of women’s empowerment and sexual violence into her novels and why the things she talked about over 200 years ago are still relevant.

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Jane Austen's Contributions to Women's Financial Independence

How many times have you heard someone say that romance novels aren’t “real books?” Fantasy is fine, mystery and sci-fi is fine, but romance is “drivel.” It’s because romance is mostly the domain of women writers and women readers. Period.

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I’ve written a book…now what?

So, I’ve written my book. But what do I do next? When I started this journey more than five years ago now, I thought that the hardest part would be fining 100K+ words to put down in a row that told something of a coherent story. I’ve since found out that writing the book was the easy part.

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