Stella Loves to Help You Learn
Two free email courses, a community of women writing together, and a standing invitation to your book club.
Stella published her first novel at 68. She knows exactly what it is to start late, start unsure, and start anyway. Everything on this page exists to help you begin – or begin again.
Where It Started
It began with a small group of women writers over fifty who met monthly, in each other’s homes, to write erotica and share their work. They didn’t set out to start anything. But it struck a chord with women at midlife and beyond, and it grew into Elderotica – and from there into workshops, a reading series, and an anthology.
Crone Authors Together carries that spirit forward, online and open to anyone.
Crone Authors Together (CAT)
Women over fifty write books that speak truth about power, love, reinvention, and aging, through vibrant fiction and empowering nonfiction.
Crone Authors Together (CAT) is a collaborative circle for women authors (not marketers) who want to reach readers and build audiences.
We gather monthly online to share what works: reader outreach, launch strategies, and marketing ideas. We solve problems, celebrate wins, and build community with each other and our readers. Please join us and share your voice!
Led by Stella Fosse, author, biologist, and advocate for older women’s empowerment. Stella writes about women’s health, sexuality and creativity. Her newest book is Rock On: Power, Sex and Money after Sixty.
Your Free Seven-Day Writing Class
Build a complete story in a week, using the techniques from Aphrodite’s Pen: The Power of Writing Erotica After Midlife.
One lesson arrives each morning, Monday through Sunday. By Sunday night you will have a finished story – yours to keep, or to share.
Your week looks like this:
- Monday – Let’s Get Started
- Tuesday – Tuesday is Soup
- Wednesday – Nothing Here to Fear
- Thursday – We’re Headed Downhill
- Friday – It’s POETS Day
- Saturday – Today’s The Day
- Sunday – Let’s Celebrate Together
Then, ten days later, one more note: How was it for you? Stella reads the replies.
Write Your Erotic Journey Through the Decades
Only you can tell this story.
Twelve days, twelve prompts – one for each decade you have lived, and the ones still ahead. You will start in the little girl years and travel through your twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, sixties, seventies and beyond. Then you will look back at the whole arc and shape it into something you are proud of.
Free, and guided the whole way by Stella.
Already doing the seven-day class? Finish that one first – this will wait.
Stella's Key Tips to Help You Write.
Use Prompts
Stella will help you with prompts (just click here) for character, plot and how to pull it all together.
Write Every Day
Figure out what schedule works for you. For example, I can write
short forms (essays and short stories) in one hour segments, but I'm a binge
writer when working on a long form (novel, self-help, etc.).
Edit After a Pause
Let your draft sit for at least a week. After that pause, go back and review and revise. You will find that the space gives you a different, more objective perspective on your writing.
Join Stella Online
Hangout with Stella online. "Follow" Stella on LinkedIn, SubStack, Facebook, Instagram and to see what's happening and when (links at top of this section). Sign up for email notifications below.
Bring Stella to Your Book Club
Stella loves book clubs. She joins by video, or by phone if that suits your group better, talks about the writing, and answers whatever your members actually want to ask.
Interviews and Events
Stella does virtual book tours, podcast and press interviews, and regular hangouts on Facebook. Her team can cut specific video clips when a host needs them.
Keep In Touch
Essays, book news, writing prompts, and dispatches from the vivid times after midlife.
No noise. Just Stella.
We never, EVER share, swap, trade or do anything with your personal information that we wouldn’t want done with our own. Truly!
