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Queenage Story-teller: Stories empowering women 50+ to turn experience into purpose, dreams into reality, and life into a lasting legacy. Debut Magical Realism

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Joined January 2013
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Free weekly blog 'Queenage Quaffee' stephaniejbarrows.substack.c…. #Queenagers, grab a brew, relax and focus on straightening your own and others’ crooked crowns whilst preparing to pass them on along with our precious ancient wisdom and knowledge to the young women of the future...
Woman wearing crooked crown in first pic, inviting Queenagers (those women who are mature like a fine wine or rich roast coffee!) to enjoy a few minutes of love, light and laughter, served with tips, tools and technques to turn your dreams into reality and a side order of quirky and often humourous poems, all in the time it takes to quaff a coffee. Free weekly Substack blog delivered to your inbox every Wednesday. 2nd pic is cartoon of the same woman writing her magtical realism debut novel where a wild older woman joins a Tuscan Legacy Retreat, uncovers a secret society, rekindles long-lost romance and creates magic. #magicalrealism #writers #dancetothebeat #querying #queenage #Wiselda #Wisdom #Elder #QueenageQuaffee #Italy #romantasy #womensliterature

ALT Woman wearing crooked crown in first pic, inviting Queenagers (those women who are mature like a fine wine or rich roast coffee!) to enjoy a few minutes of love, light and laughter, served with tips, tools and technques to turn your dreams into reality and a side order of quirky and often humourous poems, all in the time it takes to quaff a coffee. Free weekly Substack blog delivered to your inbox every Wednesday. 2nd pic is cartoon of the same woman writing her magtical realism debut novel where a wild older woman joins a Tuscan Legacy Retreat, uncovers a secret society, rekindles long-lost romance and creates magic. #magicalrealism #writers #dancetothebeat #querying #queenage #Wiselda #Wisdom #Elder #QueenageQuaffee #Italy #romantasy #womensliterature

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All of these for me!
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100%. This reminded me today also of not pulling up the ladder when we've reached the top. Let's help create a world where we always offer a hand up to those who follow.
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Be honest.
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facebook.com/share/r/1HV8pSq… #Unmapped #ReadersFavorite #AwardWinningBook #WomenWhoTravel #SoloFemaleTravel #Anthology #WomenWriters #YWCA #Grateful #LizbethMeredith
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Who got to see #MagicFarawayTree? What did you think?
Stephanie Barrows@D2Rcoaching10 Oct 2025
This 65 year old woman is beyond excited! The Magic Faraway Tree is my favourite book of all time and I still read it now. It was always my dream to write a script for and perform this on stage. A girl can dream eh. #MagicFarawayTree
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Currently querying my debut novel + A magical realism where a wild older woman joins a Tuscan legacy retreat, rekindles romance, and creates magic to thwart a secret organisation’s plot to kill the elders+ Intrigued? Updates at Queenage Quaffee stephaniejbarrows.substack.c…
Stephanie Barrows@D2Rcoaching16 Oct 2025
Where are all the 50+women who love life, a glass of wine, Italian holidays, and escapism in a magical world where anything is possible when we put our minds to it? I'm writing magical romantasy for you. If this sounds right up your strada, please like/follow. #WomensFiction
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instagram.com/reel/Db-QQxLMz… #ThursdayThoughts #3SecondRule
Pictures of a woman picking up food from the floor within 3 seconds! Plus a poem in the 2nd picture about toast always landing buttered side down. The 3 Second Rule! Dash it and darn it, it’s always the way… When dropping the toast, Sod’s Law comes into play. If it has buttery topping It’ll always be dropping, Face-planted to floor… 3 Second Rule’s out the door! ©StephanieBarrows/August 2026 Link to https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db-QQxLMzzs/ for post about the 3 second rule on posts. #ThursdayThoughts #3SecondRule #Kairos #Lionsgate #Queenage #LadiesWhoLunch #IWD2026 #WritingCommunity #Writers #Fiction #WorkInProgress #Repurpose #Alzheimers #Dream2Reality #Dreams #WomenOfTheFuture #DeafCommunity #DeafHearingCollaborations #Wiselda #WiseldaWisdom #DanceToTheBeat #ElderQueen #DancingQueen #sheisaphoenixrising #publishing #author #querying

ALT Pictures of a woman picking up food from the floor within 3 seconds! Plus a poem in the 2nd picture about toast always landing buttered side down. The 3 Second Rule! Dash it and darn it, it’s always the way… When dropping the toast, Sod’s Law comes into play. If it has buttery topping It’ll always be dropping, Face-planted to floor… 3 Second Rule’s out the door! ©StephanieBarrows/August 2026 Link to https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db-QQxLMzzs/ for post about the 3 second rule on posts. #ThursdayThoughts #3SecondRule #Kairos #Lionsgate #Queenage #LadiesWhoLunch #IWD2026 #WritingCommunity #Writers #Fiction #WorkInProgress #Repurpose #Alzheimers #Dream2Reality #Dreams #WomenOfTheFuture #DeafCommunity #DeafHearingCollaborations #Wiselda #WiseldaWisdom #DanceToTheBeat #ElderQueen #DancingQueen #sheisaphoenixrising #publishing #author #querying

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Loved @KathyLette's The Revenge Club and @richardosman's Thursday Murder Club, celebrating older folk with suspense-filled stories, great characters and a side order of witty humour. #IAmReading
Helen S Fields
@Helen_FieldsAug 1
I would rather see a post where you write/talk about one or two books you read this month that you really loved, why, what made them unique - than see endless posts where people list the 20 books they read this month. Volume is irrelevant if we don’t get a sense of the experience.
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Just finishing @Barbaraerskine The Story Spinner, before I start her latest The Valley of the Ravens. I adore her two-timeline spiritual/pagan contemporary/historical stories. A novice dance student I avidly read dance-themed stories by @TheAntonDuBeke and @ShirleyBallas too.
Helen S Fields
@Helen_FieldsAug 1
I would rather see a post where you write/talk about one or two books you read this month that you really loved, why, what made them unique - than see endless posts where people list the 20 books they read this month. Volume is irrelevant if we don’t get a sense of the experience.
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A thoughtful and timely missive which I wholeheartedly endorse, kind Sir. A keen wordsmith, I look foward to future communications and corrective interjections from your grammatical self.
🎩Laird of the Manor🎩
@LairdOfThManorJun 16
A small public service announcement from the Department of Things That You Should Know… It has not “peeked” your interest. Nor has it “peaked” your interest. …It has piqued your interest. You are not “phased” by something. You are fazed by it. If you’ve had a long day, you are weary. If you suspect someone is an idiot, you are wary. It is “due course”, not “do course”. “Per se”, not “per say”. And while we’re here, it’s “could have”, not “could of”, but that particular battle may already be lost. Thank you for your attention during this brief outbreak of grammatical housekeeping. This has been a @LairdofthManor announcement.🎩💙
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Kate Halena
@KateHalenaJun 14
The hardest part of self-publishing isn’t making the book -- it’s shouting loud enough for readers to hear it exists!
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G. F. Allen
@AuthorGFAllenMay 3
Do you think writing is a skill or a talent?
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I'm querying agents and publishers with my debut novel. I dream of seeing others reading my story. #am querying #agents #publishers #magicalrealism #romantasy
Stephanie Barrows@D2Rcoaching16 Oct 2025
Where are all the 50+women who love life, a glass of wine, Italian holidays, and escapism in a magical world where anything is possible when we put our minds to it? I'm writing magical romantasy for you. If this sounds right up your strada, please like/follow. #WomensFiction
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Helen S Fields
@Helen_FieldsMar 27
Listen my lovelies, there's been a lot of criticism of people using AI to write books & I don't think that's the way to win hearts and minds. So let me tell you instead, with the best of intentions, what you're missing out on. Here's the thing - writing books is hard. I don't know anyone who was a brilliant writer the first second they began. It's a journey and a learning curve. There are frustrations, challenges, disappointments and failures along the way. But the point is that the journey is still the good bit. Because at the end of it all you have such a sense of pride and achievement that it can be life changing. You don't need a million pound book deal to feel it. The discipline, hard work, time, dedication, passion and intensity all pay out. It's a feeling like nothing else. So for your own sake, stick with the writing. The actual hard work. And yes, I know it's tough. (Really, really.) But nothing quick and easy gives you a real sense of fulfilment. Want to be a writer? Then the painful truth is that you have to write. Good days, bad days, boring days, days where you rip it up and start again. But my God, the days when you hold a book in your hands and think "I created this. From my brain, my soul, my life experience, my sweat and tears." Those days are golden. And you can have that, but only if you put in the hours. Because otherwise, you'll look at that book forever and the truth (that perhaps only you will know) is "Those aren't my words." Just try.
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The first sentence/paragraph is the hook to encourage readers to continue reading our fabulous stories. Thus it needs to WOW, pique interest, motivate others to explore further. #writers #authors
Author Haley Anna Marie@ElementasSeriesMar 24
I might be the minority here, but I don't need the first sentence to WOW me. This instant gratification culture is toxic. What happened to easing into a good story?
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Writing/Re-writing is easy compared to getting an agent/traditional publisher, social media promotion of self and books etc! (says one currently in the querying trenches for her debut Magical Realism novel!) #writingcommunity
FinishLineScriptComp
@FinishLineScripMar 25
Writing is hard. Rewriting is harder. Who agrees?
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Shameless self-promo on International Women's Day! A reminder that we can support each other by liking, commenting, following and re-posting each other's posts on all social media platforms. Thank you for everyone who takes the time to help this Queenage writer. #iwd2026
Stephanie Barrows@D2RcoachingMar 8
When life gives us lemons, we’re told to make lemonade. But what if the real question isn’t what you make - but who you make it with? Let’s talk about what happens when women stop fixing themselves in isolation - and start straightening each other’s crooked crowns... #iwd2026
Photos of Stephanie Barrows together with co-authored books supporting women's charities. Also for #TheDayOfDance huge thanks to teachers Giovanni Pernice and Kai Widdrington for teaching this total novice Latin and Ballroom dance for the past 5 years. Huge thanks also to Lauren Oakley and Nadiya Bychkova for teaching me to dance backwards and in heels! #IWD2026 #givetogain #ambitions #DanceToTheBeat #Writers #Fiction #WIP #WorkInProgress #Repurpose #MentalHealth #Dementia #Alzheimers #Dream2Reality #Dreams #WomenOfTheFuture #DeafCommunity #DeafHearingCollaborations #Wiselda #WiseldaWisdom #WeekendVibes #ElderQueen #DancingQueen #sheisaphoenixrising #unmapped #Kairos #publishing #author #querying #ThisMorning #LooseWomen #BBCStrictly #LizbethMeredith #AishlingMooney

ALT Photos of Stephanie Barrows together with co-authored books supporting women's charities. Also for #TheDayOfDance huge thanks to teachers Giovanni Pernice and Kai Widdrington for teaching this total novice Latin and Ballroom dance for the past 5 years. Huge thanks also to Lauren Oakley and Nadiya Bychkova for teaching me to dance backwards and in heels! #IWD2026 #givetogain #ambitions #DanceToTheBeat #Writers #Fiction #WIP #WorkInProgress #Repurpose #MentalHealth #Dementia #Alzheimers #Dream2Reality #Dreams #WomenOfTheFuture #DeafCommunity #DeafHearingCollaborations #Wiselda #WiseldaWisdom #WeekendVibes #ElderQueen #DancingQueen #sheisaphoenixrising #unmapped #Kairos #publishing #author #querying #ThisMorning #LooseWomen #BBCStrictly #LizbethMeredith #AishlingMooney

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When life gives us lemons, we’re told to make lemonade. But what if the real question isn’t what you make - but who you make it with? Let’s talk about what happens when women stop fixing themselves in isolation - and start straightening each other’s crooked crowns... #iwd2026
Photos of Stephanie Barrows together with co-authored books supporting women's charities. Also for #TheDayOfDance huge thanks to teachers Giovanni Pernice and Kai Widdrington for teaching this total novice Latin and Ballroom dance for the past 5 years. Huge thanks also to Lauren Oakley and Nadiya Bychkova for teaching me to dance backwards and in heels! #IWD2026 #givetogain #ambitions #DanceToTheBeat #Writers #Fiction #WIP #WorkInProgress #Repurpose #MentalHealth #Dementia #Alzheimers #Dream2Reality #Dreams #WomenOfTheFuture #DeafCommunity #DeafHearingCollaborations #Wiselda #WiseldaWisdom #WeekendVibes #ElderQueen #DancingQueen #sheisaphoenixrising #unmapped #Kairos #publishing #author #querying #ThisMorning #LooseWomen #BBCStrictly #LizbethMeredith #AishlingMooney

ALT Photos of Stephanie Barrows together with co-authored books supporting women's charities. Also for #TheDayOfDance huge thanks to teachers Giovanni Pernice and Kai Widdrington for teaching this total novice Latin and Ballroom dance for the past 5 years. Huge thanks also to Lauren Oakley and Nadiya Bychkova for teaching me to dance backwards and in heels! #IWD2026 #givetogain #ambitions #DanceToTheBeat #Writers #Fiction #WIP #WorkInProgress #Repurpose #MentalHealth #Dementia #Alzheimers #Dream2Reality #Dreams #WomenOfTheFuture #DeafCommunity #DeafHearingCollaborations #Wiselda #WiseldaWisdom #WeekendVibes #ElderQueen #DancingQueen #sheisaphoenixrising #unmapped #Kairos #publishing #author #querying #ThisMorning #LooseWomen #BBCStrictly #LizbethMeredith #AishlingMooney

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Giovanni Pernice@pernicegiovann1Jan 30
Mantengo sempre le mie promesse !!!! 🥰 buytickets.at/ballando
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