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Find Great Books on Goodreads
Did you know all of the women’s fiction books by WFWA members are on a Goodreads shelf? You can find them here. Click on any of the covers below to see that book on Goodreads!
Recent Releases
We now have a special Monthly Highlights shelf on Goodreads, where you can get full information on the books listed below. Thanks for reading, reviewing, and sharing with your friends!
 True Places by Sonja Yoerg
A harried mother, Suzanne, finds a near-feral girl, Iris, alongside the Blue Ridge Parkway. Suzanne rescues Iris, and invites her into her home, which is already strained by difficult teenagers and an ambitious husband. Iris' independence, love of solitude, and discomfort with materialism contrast with suburban life, and these qualities awaken a fascination in Suzanne, then a longing. Will she save Iris, or is Iris the one who will save her?
For more information, please visit Sonja's website.
 We Hope for Better Things by Erin Bartels
When journalist Elizabeth Balsam is asked to deliver a box of old photos to a relative she didn't know she had, she discovers how some of the most newsworthy events of the previous two centuries shaped her own family. Take an emotional journey through time—from the volatile streets of 1960s Detroit to Michigan's Underground Railroad during the Civil War—to uncover the past, confront the seeds of hatred, and discover where love goes to hide.
For more information, please visit Erin's website.
 The Forgiving Kind by Donna Everhart
In this masterful new novel, set in 1950s North Carolina by the acclaimed author of The Road to Bittersweet and The Education of Dixie Dupree, twelve-year-old Sonny Creech, an unforgettable young heroine with the uncanny gift of divining water, comes of age on her family’s cotton farm in a segregated and bigoted South, in this moving story of family love tested to its limits.
For more information, please visit Donna's website.
Plan Your Literary Year: Book Events to Look For
Connect with your favorite women's fiction authors at events around the country—check out the options below, sorted by geographical region.
For more information, see the complete list of events from the American Writers Museum.
NORTHEAST
 Allegheny Regional Festival of Books, PA
Battleboro Literary Festival, VT
Woodstock Bookfest, NY
Boston Book Festival, MA
New York Book Festival, NY
MID-ATLANTIC
 Baltimore Book Festival, MD
Fall for the Book, VA
Gaithersburg Book Festival, MD
National Book Festival, DC
Virginia Festival of the Book, VA
SOUTHEAST
 Alabama Book Festival, AL
North Carolina Book Festival
Key West Literary Seminar, FL
Louisiana Book Festival, LA
Savannah Book Festival, GA
CENTRAL STATES
 Kansas Book Festival, KS
South Dakota Festival of Books, SD
Unbound Book Festival, MO
Nebraska Book Festival, NE
Buckeye Book Fair, OH
UPPER MIDWEST
 Detroit Book City, MI
Printers Row Lit Fest, IL
Wordplay by The Loft, MN
Twin Cities Book Festival, MN
Wisconsin Book Festival, WI
SOUTHWEST
 San Antonio Book Festival, TX
Tuscon Festival of Books, AZ
Utah Humanities Book Festival, UT
Texas Book Festival, TX
Vegas Valley Book Festival, NV
WEST COAST
 Hawai’i Book and Music Festival, HI
Literary Women, The Long Beach Festival of Authors, CA
Bay Area Book Festival, CA
Portland Book Festival, OR
EWU Presents Get Lit! Festival, WA
Hear Us Roar! Debut Author Podcasts
WFWA member Erin Bartels is a copywriter and freelance editor by day, a novelist by night, and a painter, poet, and photographer in between. Her debut novel, We Hope for Better Things, released in January 2019 from Revell Books. It will be followed in September 2019 with The Words between Us, which was a finalist for the 2015 RISING STAR Award.
Find her on Facebook @ErinBartelsAuthor, on Twitter @ErinLBartels, or on Instagram @erinbartelswrites. Her weekly podcast, Your Face Is Crooked, drops on Monday mornings.
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