Literary Aviatrix: The Power of Story - Women in Aviation

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Literary Aviatrix: The Power of Story - Women in Aviation
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Join Liz Booker as she interviews authors whose books feature women in aviation from across genres, historical periods, and types of flying, and be inspired by the tenacity, adventure, and courage of our sisters in the air. * Liz not only promotes books featuring women in aviation, but also provides the tools and information for other women to tell their stories. Check out Writers' Room interviews for in-depth discussions on writing, publishing, and book promotion. * Short on time? * WAYPOINTS are 5-10 minute excerpts from her book interviews with 50+ authors * AUTHORS NOTES are 5-10 minute excerpts from her Writers' Room interviews with authors and other experts in writing and publishing * Liz is a retired Coast Guard helicopter pilot and writer, and host of the Aviatrix Book Club, Aviatrix Writers' Group, and Literary Aviatrix website where you'll find hundreds of books featuring women in aviation for all ages. * Sign up for the Literary Aviatrix Newsletter to stay up to date on book news and book discussions and follow her on social media @LiteraryAviatrix. * https://linktr.ee/literaryaviatrix

71 WP25: Bush pilot Myriam Huser talks about the joys and challenges of flying humanitarian missions in Chad with Air Serv. 2023-04-11
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72 AN12: Book Publicist Jen Coburn talks timelines, costs, and the relationship between an author and her publicist. 2023-04-09
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73 WP24: Author Kathy Mexted talks about how Deborah Lawrie fought a ground-breaking equal opportunity case in the Australian courts in 1980 to become the first female airline pilot in Australia. 2023-03-23
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74 WP23: Pilot, journalist, and author Kathy Mexted talks about Australian pilot Patricia Toole and her adventures flying in Papua, New Guinea as the first female commercial pilot in the 1950s. 2023-03-21
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75 AN11: Thriller novelist and co-author of Niloofar Rahmani's memoir, Open Skies, Adam Sikes talks about the challenges of putting emotions on the page. 2023-03-19
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76 WP22: Historian Amy Shira Teitel talks about why she wanted to write the story of the women who tested for the early NASA space program with more context than was offered in previous tellings in her book Fighting for Space. 2023-03-16
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77 WP21: Clare Mulley talks about the trail that led her to the hidden and untold story of Melitta von Stauffenberg (Schiller), and her role as a Nazi aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and resistor, which she juxtaposes with Hannah Reitsch in The Women who 2023-03-14
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78 AN10: General aviation pilot and author Erin Seidemann talks about her writing journey and the daunting process of publishing her memoir, Postcards from the Sky: Adventures of an Aviatrix. 2023-03-12
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79 WP20: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Beverly Weintraub talks about the first women Naval Aviators, featured in her book, Wings of Gold, as we prepare to celebrate fifty years of women in Naval Aviation with the Blue Angels' performance in El Centro 2023-03-09
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80 Aviatrix Book Club - March 2023: Captain Manisha M. Puri talks about Indian women in aviation history starting with their first licensed pilot in 1936, to today, as the global leader with 12% women in commercial aviation 2023-03-08
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