by Ragini Werner | 2 March 2025 | Real life, Review
When your publisher is in Canada and you’re in the Netherlands, there’s lots of logical to-ing and fro-ing across the Gulf of Greenland while your book is in production. Back then, did I realize that Becoming Janice would also be trotting over the entire globe?...
by Ragini Werner | 3 February 2025 | Real life
As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. Which is great for people like me. When I’m lost for words, I can’t talk or write. Nothing serious, it happens when I’m overtired, usually after I’ve been focusing too long and hard on somebody else’s words....
by Ragini Werner | 12 January 2025 | Real life, Writing
Don’t you just love looking things up? I do. For me the habit started when I was a kid in New Zealand. One day a travelling salesman knocked on our door. Dad answered and before the man could finish his spiel, Dad held up a hand to stop him: “We’ll take it.” The poor...
by Ragini Werner | 25 November 2024 | Real life, Sapphic
Em Buckman is the award-winning author of Bent Is Not Broken (LGBTQIA+ history/memoir). She is currently working on a new novel, Women Of Note (historical fiction). In this guest blog, Em explains why she—a cis-het person—is an outspoken ally of our demonised,...
by Ragini Werner | 29 October 2024 | Marketing, Real life
Hey indie author, do you suck at selling your book? Come on, be honest. You’re a writer so, ipso facto, selling is not your favorite pursuit. If you’re like me, you’d rather get on with writing instead of faffing about on social media, desperately trying to make...
by Ragini Werner | 7 October 2024 | Real life
One capital pleasure of my real life is the license my day job—English language editor for Dutch academics—gives me to goof off on Google. Or, to put it in terms the taxman will accept: the time I spend online looking up terminology is justified. For sad nerdlings...