{"id":29368,"date":"2025-03-31T02:18:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T09:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=29368"},"modified":"2025-04-11T03:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T10:36:12","slug":"how-ancient-female-warriors-shape-our-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/31\/how-ancient-female-warriors-shape-our-future\/","title":{"rendered":"How Ancient Female Warriors Shape Our Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HTWTF-Episode-146-Blog-Images.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29369 size-full aligncenter\" title=\"How Ancient Female Warriors Shape Our Future\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HTWTF-Episode-146-Blog-Images.png\" alt=\"Image of female warrior holding a piece of rock above her head for How Ancient Female Warriors Shape Our Future\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HTWTF-Episode-146-Blog-Images.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HTWTF-Episode-146-Blog-Images-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HTWTF-Episode-146-Blog-Images-1.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29370 size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Quote from How Ancient Female Warriors Shape Our Future\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HTWTF-Episode-146-Blog-Images-1.png\" alt=\"Quote from How Ancient Female Warriors Shape Our Future\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HTWTF-Episode-146-Blog-Images-1.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/HTWTF-Episode-146-Blog-Images-1-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How Ancient Female Warriors Shape Our Future &#8211; How To Write the Future podcast, episode 146<\/span><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWomen have had an impact in world history throughout the ages. We just haven&#8217;t been told those stories. \u200aSo one of my missions in life is to bring these stories to life, both through fiction and through nonfiction.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dive into \u201cHow Ancient Female Warriors Shape Our Future\u201d, an episode for How To Write The Future podcast, where host Beth Barany shares stories of female warriors throughout history, challenging myths and revealing their crucial roles shaped civilization. And how knowing these stories can help us shape our futures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Content\/Trigger Warning: Mention of sexual assault<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Platforms The podcast is available on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/146-how-ancient-female-warriors-shape-our-future\/id1641025914?i=1000701545468\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061\/episodes\/16886359-146-how-ancient-female-warriors-shape-our-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buzzsprout<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/0epIOLOqGQFWCQx8fLi8fm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcastaddict.com\/episode\/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzsprout.com%2F2012061%2Fepisodes%2F16886359-146-how-ancient-female-warriors-shape-our-future.mp3&amp;podcastId=4025186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Podcast Addict<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/ca590618-5630-4450-aa17-7e2f35359a76\/episodes\/a285df73-ed26-408b-8370-fcd5feb341e6\/how-to-write-the-future-146-how-ancient-female-warriors-shape-our-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon Music<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/G17_G-nMQls?si=Bw-ArN9kIADNWghP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G17_G-nMQls?si=skJrCMKfefQRLOuB\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' charset='utf-8' src='https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061.js?container_id=buzzsprout-large-player&#038;player=large'><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><b>RESOURCES<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Books mentioned in this episode:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <em>Encyclopedia of Amazons: Women Warriors from Antiquity To The Modern Era<\/em> by **Jessica Amanda Salmonson<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <em>Women Warriors: A History<\/em> by David E. Jones<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <em>Women Warriors and Unexpected History<\/em> by Pamela D. Toler<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <em>Warrior Women: An Archeologist&#8217;s Search For History&#8217;s Hidden Heroines<\/em> by Janine Davis Kimball, PhD with Mona Behan<b><!-- notionvc: 76dae8b5-cc0a-4094-87da-f86f89d55076 -->\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Free World Building Workbook for Fiction Writers:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/world-building-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/world-building-resources\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Sign up for the 30-minute Story Success Clinic with Beth Barany:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/story-success-clinic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/story-success-clinic\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Get support for your fiction writing by a novelist and writing teacher and coach. Schedule an exploratory call here and see if Beth can support you today:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/discovery-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/discovery-call\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About the How To Write the Future podcast\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How To Write The Future<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> podcast is for science fiction and fantasy writers who want to write positive futures and successfully bring those stories out into the marketplace. Hosted by Beth Barany, science fiction novelist and creativity coach for writers. We cover tips for fiction writers. This podcast is for readers too if you\u2019re at all curious about the future of humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This podcast is for you if you have questions like:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; How do I create a believable world for my science fiction story?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; How do I figure out what&#8217;s not working if my story feels flat?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; How do I make my story more interesting and alive?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This podcast is for readers too if you\u2019re at all curious about the future of humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transcript for Ancient Female Warriors Shape Our Future\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[00:00] Introduction to the Podcast\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hey everyone. Beth Barany here with How to Write the Future Podcast. I am a creativity coach, book editor, book coach and novelist. I write science, fiction and fantasy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I run this podcast because I like to talk about issues and topics and ideas that can help us as writers shape the future, shape our futures. There is more than one future. We each have a road in front of us that will be created as we create it and collectively as humanity. There are many futures,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[00:36] The Importance of Historical Narratives<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the best ways to understand who we could be and what we could become as humans is to look at our past. Now, often when people look at the past, they only see the bad things and they only see what has been taught in school. But actually there&#8217;s so much more about human history that is still hidden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I have to tell you that it&#8217;s been a big question of mine my entire life: how come we don&#8217;t know the full history of our say of our family&#8217;s past? How come we don&#8217;t have all the stories of the different people that made up the past? History is not just by people who conquered or kings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And in fact, half of humanity is female. So let&#8217;s include women and their impact in the past.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[01:24] Women Warriors in History<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today I wanna talk about women warriors in history, specifically, based on these three books that I have that I&#8217;m gonna talk about in a minute.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I just wanna say that the power of storytelling, the power of media to shape our minds and our hearts when we&#8217;re children is huge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No one can deny that. So we wanna give children images and stories about who they could be, and we do that by drawing from the past and drawing from mythology and fairytales and folklore and from the stories people write.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, when I was a kid, I read folklore and fairytales like crazy. I loved them so much, but always, it was a boy going on an adventure, rescuing some girl sometimes, and sometimes just facing off against monsters and things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I really was disappointed about that. I thought, wait, where&#8217;s the girls going on adventures? I wanted to have adventures. How come I didn&#8217;t see that in stories? And maybe because I was brought up inside of a feminist family with a feminist legacy&#8211; a feminist legacy that goes back several generations all the way as far as I know, back to my great, great grandmother. I was like, how come the stories, these folk tales that feel so old and ancient and passed down through the generations, how come there&#8217;s no girls going on adventures? So that was my big question as a kid that really drove me as a creative writer eventually. And why I&#8217;ve written <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Henrietta the Dragon Slayer<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> series, my <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Janey McCallister<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> mystery Sci-Fi investigator series, and why I am so interested and excited when I first discovered that there are these books out here about women warriors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I&#8217;m gonna talk about them and also, so I&#8217;m gonna share a little bit about them.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[03:14] Book Review: Encyclopedia of Amazons\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first book I&#8217;m gonna talk about is the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Encyclopedia of Amazons: Women Warriors from Antiquity To The Modern Era<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now this book was published in 1991 I bought a used copy because it&#8217;s out of print now. And it is a fabulous, historical oriented book. And it says here that &#8220;This book is a comprehensive compendium of often little known heroic female combatants through the ages whose lives and exploits are as remarkable as those of history\u2019s widely known heroes. With more than 1000 entries, this meticulously researched work focuses on Amazons, martial nuns, meanedes, warrior queens, pirates, guerillas, avenging goddesses.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay, there it moves over into storyland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;And other unconventional women whose lives were spent in valorous combat. Excluding spies, assassins, and criminals, entries range throughout world culture to include ancient mythology, religion, literature, Native American folklore, Middle Eastern history, Wild West lore and stories of World War II resistance fighters.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay, so she brings in story and fact.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;A uniquely original vision of women&#8217;s heroism and history, the Encyclopedia of Amazons should forever dispel the myth of women as weak and helpless or as passive participants in world history. &#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is my biggest point.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Women have had an impact in world history throughout the ages. We just haven&#8217;t been told those stories.&#8221; So one of my missions in life is to bring these stories to life, both through fiction and through nonfiction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have to say that I did read this entire book. It&#8217;s organized alphabetically and I really I enjoyed it and I think I&#8217;d like to read it again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the things that&#8217;s happened as I read these encyclopedias is I really wished for narrative, for story for each of them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alright, let me talk about the second one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[05:27] Book Review: Women Warriors by David E. Jones<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women Warriors: A History<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It&#8217;s by David E. Jones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Cultural anthropologist, David E. Jones takes the reader back through history and around the world to uncover a clear pattern of women as warriors. Women Warriors is the most comprehensive account of the female martial heritage available and a fascinating comment on the nature of gender, on the power of the warrior image and on the images source and history.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, this book was published in, and I have notes, I wrote notes all over the margins, published in 1997. One of the things that I learned in these books is that in the British Isles before the Romans got there, or actually the Romans must have gotten there by then because they recorded Celtic history and then they destroyed the Celtic cultures. There was fight schools for women, and I saw that referenced in another book I have on Celtic Women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;When researching celtic military customs in ancient Britain, I read of the two major martial arts schools of the time, both run by women warriors.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, if that&#8217;s not the start of a story, I don&#8217;t know what is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I like that he puts things into historical context. This book is organized by region, by geography, and it&#8217;s global, which I really appreciate: Arabia, Asia, India, British Isles Africa, Latin America, Egypt, Middle East, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, North America. And he has a summary chapter, the female martial heritage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[06:59] Woman as Hunter\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the last few years, I heard a report that I will cite in the notes that archeologists have revised their, analysis of grave sites where they thought male warriors were buried and they realized that half of the archeological record is actually showing that 50% of the people that they thought were men who were the hunters were actually women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are women who, like myself, who are interested in the hunt, who are interested in the adventure. And I would say probably 50% of the women out there in the world are interested in being hunters and warriors. Just not all men are interested in being hunters. Probably about 50% of the men are also interested in hunting, that kind of thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alright, one last, book I wanna talk about today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[07:51] Book Review: Women Warriors by Pamela D. Toler<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women Warriors and Unexpected History<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Pamela D. Toler, and I have the hardback for this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let&#8217;s find the summary of this book. Let&#8217;s see:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Who says women don&#8217;t go to war? From Vikings and African queens to cross-dressing military doctors and World War II Russian fighter pilots, these are the stories of women for whom battle was not a metaphor.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I really enjoyed this book. It&#8217;s told from a historian&#8217;s perspective. There were no flights of fancy in here, only reference to the historical record, which I really respect, and I found that the writing style is very different than with the other two.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So here&#8217;s a little bit more about this book, about Pamela Toler&#8217;s book.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The Woman Warrior is always cast as an anomaly. Joan of Arc, not GI Jane, but women, it turns out have long gone to war. In this fascinating and lively world history, Pamela Toler not only introduces us to women who took up arms, but also shows why they did it and what happened when they stepped out of their traditional female roles to take on other identities. These are the stories of women who fought because they wanted to, because they had to, or because they could.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the warriors you&#8217;ll meet are these: Tomyris, ruler of the Matai who killed Cyrus, the Great of Persia when he sought to invade her lands. The West African ruler Amina of Hausa, who led her warriors in a campaign of territorial expansion for more than 30 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boudica, who led the Celtic Tribes of Britain into a massive rebellion against the Roman Empire to avenge the rapes of her daughters; the Truang Sisters Chung Track and Truang Nhi, who led an untrained army of 80,000 troops to drive the Chinese emperor out of Vietnam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Joshi Gun, 30 combat trained Japanese women who fought against the forces of the Maji Empire in the late 19th century. Lakshmi Ba Rani ab Jonsi, who was regarded as the bravest and best military leader in the 1857 Indian Mutiny against British rule, Maria, Butch Eva, who commanded Russia&#8217;s first all female battalion, the first women&#8217;s battalion of death during World War II.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Buffalo Calf Road Woman, the Cheyenne warrior who knocked General Custer off his horse at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Juan De a Mestiza warrior who fought in at least 16 major battles against colonizers of Latin America and who is a national hero in Bolivia and Argentina today, NAZA Rova, who served for 10 years in a Russian cavalry unit, disguised as a man, and was the first woman to receive the Russian Cross of St. George. By considering the ways in which their presence has been erased from history, Toler reveals that women have always fought, not in spite of being women, but because they are women.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[10:50] Book Review: Warrior Women by Janine Davis Kimball<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I also wanna talk about this book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Warrior Women: An Archeologist&#8217;s Search For History&#8217;s Hidden Heroines<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Janine Davis Kimball, PhD with Mona Behan. Behan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This book. Wow. I was so impressed. This is the story of an archeological dig in what is now we&#8217;re talking, let&#8217;s see. Yes. Kazakhstan, a remote region, hundreds of miles southeast of Moscow, and halfway to Mongolia. So here is where this archeologist uncovered evidence for a culture that women seemed to have three roles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And this is based on the archeological record. According to her interpretation, they were either, hearth, they took care of the hearth&#8211; food, cooking, probably children; Warriors. There&#8217;s evidence of women being buried with accoutrement of war and horse care. And the third role was shaman, someone who healed and visioned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I really was impressed with this book, very engaging. And also there is a documentary about herresearch, I believe about 10 years after this book came out. And this book was published in 2002, copyright 2002.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[12:13] Conclusion and Call to Action<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So this is my episode today on women warriors. Women have been warriors and fighters throughout history and hunters as well. And, from what we know of the archeological evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So all this to say, history holds way more complexity and way more interesting stories that has generally been revealed in the textbooks that are offered to us as children. Thankfully, there are a lot more stories out there about interesting people in history and about women warriors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So my dream is to create stories about these real women and create fictionalized stories so we can actually experience them. Just the way we experience a novel. It&#8217;s one thing to read a historical entry in a book. It&#8217;s a whole other thing to create a story around them and create a lived experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that&#8217;s one of my dreams.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[13:05] This is my sandbox + Invitation to connect<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I really love having this podcast as a place a sandbox to explore ideas and share them with you, and also improve my skills and the video department, as well as the audio. And it&#8217;s also my way to interact with you, so I would love to hear your thoughts on women warriors in history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And is there any particular woman warrior that you would love to know more about?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I didn&#8217;t go into any detail today because there are so many to talk about, which is really wonderful. In the future, maybe I will.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I also wanna let you know that I am someone who cares deeply about the craft of fiction. And I love working with writers who care as well, and who wanna get their stories out in the world and need support, and especially, I&#8217;m really great at the one-on-one support as well as being a teacher and coming into writing organizations and teaching hands-on workshops that produce value right away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are interested in connecting with me about my one-on-one work with writers, or coming into your group organization to teach, please contact me. All the details about this or at my website, Beth Barany dot com, how to contact me, the kinds of, programs I offer writers, and the one-on-one coaching and consulting that I do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right. That&#8217;s it for this week, everyone. Write long and prosper.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating here:\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Need instructions on how to leave a review? <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/leave-a-podcast-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Go here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ABOUT BETH BARANY<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/BETH-BARANY_2023_300px_01-e1692481023683.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-27411 size-full\" title=\"Image of Beth Barany\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/BETH-BARANY_2023_300px_01-e1692481023683.png\" alt=\"Image of Beth Barany\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beth Barany teaches science fiction and fantasy novelists how to write, edit, and publish their books as a coach, teacher, consultant, and developmental editor. 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