<p class="ql-align-center"><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Multicultural stories from women about women that will delight, entertain and occasionally break your heart.</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="ql-align-center"><br></p><p class="ql-align-center"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">What happens when eleven women from around the world team up and challenge each other to write a story outside their genre? The result: the </span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Mixed Bag of Tricks</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">, eleven short stories that explore cross-cultural clashes, relationships on new planets, mutual grieving, a humorous otherworldly visit to a bachelorette party, the laugh-out-loud complexities of married life, and so much more. This multi-genre mashup of stories, experimental in conception, celebrates the process of storytelling and the art of collaboration.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Sixty percent of profits from the sale of this book will benefit the Writers' League of Texas, a nonprofit that serves writers around the world with its online programming for authors of all genres. Learn more about the organization at</strong><strong> writersleague.org</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="ql-align-center"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Featuring stories by: Antonia Pròtano Biggs, Ishita Fernandes, Roanna Flowers, GESS, Ilene Haddad, Hollie Hardy, Britta Jensen, Heidi Kasa, N.J. Knight, Kara Stockinger, E.A. Williams</span></p><p><br></p><p class="ql-align-center"><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>