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title: A Women Writers’ Bloc
date: 2024-06-26T05:30:00-04:00
author: University of Maryland
canonical_url: "https://today.umd.edu/a-women-writers-bloc"
section: Articles
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# A Women Writers’ Bloc

*June 26, 2024* — by [Sala Levin ’10](/author/sala-levin-10)


> 2 Terps Among NYC Authors Releasing Beachy Novels on Same Day


Fighting the lonesomeness that can come with holing up to write a book, seven New York City-area women banded together last winter to trade texts and emails in what came to feel like group therapy.

Each of the authors was releasing a book on June 4, a fact they had discovered while networking in the Big Apple’s writerly circles. Some had released their first novels during the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, showing up to bookstores in masks and gloves and signing their books outside the front door before holding their breath to pass them back to the booksellers. Others were more seasoned in the traditional book release process.

Now the members of the informal club they called the June 4 Authors began to post about one another’s books on social media, team up for book events and text one another from late nights in far-flung hotel rooms.

For two of the authors, the camaraderie ran even deeper. After speaking at the University of Maryland Alumni Association’s women’s conference in New York City earlier this month, Brooke Lea Foster ’98 texted the group encouraging them to reach out to their universities’ alumni associations. Jane L. Rosen ’87 texted back: “I’m a Terp, too!”


*“All the Summers in Between” book cover with headshot*


*“Seven Summer Weekends” book cover with headshot*




**Topics:** [People](https://today.umd.edu/tags/people)


**Tags:** [Alumni](https://today.umd.edu/topic/alumni), [Books](https://today.umd.edu/topic/books)


**Units:** [College of Arts and Humanities](https://today.umd.edu/topic/college-arts-and-humanities)