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SAD SACKED: Excerpt
Coming out in June The last person Liz Alterman expects to hear from during her Thanksgiving prep is her husband, Rich. He never calls from his job at a busy Manhattan newsroom. And he never will again, because he’s just been laid off. Two months later, Liz is downsized, too. At first, Rich is enchanted […]
Laughing About it One Day By Courtney Deane
Laughing About it One Day By Courtney Deane Ask most of today’s top comedians – Ricky Gervais, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock – and they’ll tell you no topic is off limits. That’s there’s no such thing as “you can’t say that” or “that’s not funny.” In fact, one could argue they’ve made entire careers (or […]
Henriette Lazaridis: On Writing LAST DAYS IN PLAKA
As an athlete, I’m familiar with the principle of different kinds of training intensity, and I’m familiar with the concept of being in the zone. I’m pretty sure I’m mostly a slow-twitch muscle fiber kind of person, doing better at endurance efforts than at sprints. B efore 2020, if you had asked me what kind […]
Today is Global Holistic Wealth Day! On Starting A Global Movement By Keisha Blair, Mother of Holistic Wealth
Today is Global Holistic Wealth Day! On Starting A Global Movement By Keisha Blair, Mother of Holistic Wealth By Keisha Blair There have been some poignant moments on my journey to building a global movement for holistic wealth – a journey that has already impacted the lives of over 50 million people. The journey started […]
What Writing about My Scientist Father’s Death Taught Me about Faith
I wrote my novel, The Saddest Girl on the Beach, in the aftermath of my dad’s death. In the book, much like in my life, the protagonist’s journey is one of finding her way back to herself, of figuring out who she is, in a world without her dad. Along my journey of writing and […]
Migration, Botany, History and Identity: The Seeds of Inspiration for a Book about Gardens and Gardening from an Émigré’s Perspective
Migration, Botany, History and Identity: The Seeds of Inspiration for a Book about Gardens and Gardening from an Émigré’s Perspective By Mariam Pirbhai Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging (Wolsak & Wynn, 2023) is a book of creative nonfiction written through the lens of nature writing and memoir. It concerns the space of […]
Reviews: The Great Divide
Reviews: The Great Divide Q. How many reviewers does it take to change a lightbulb? A. None – their job is to stand back and critique the way you did it – and they’ll be split down the middle as to whether you did it perfectly or whether you were hopeless. An old variation on […]
The journey from Self-Published to Traditionally Published author by AJ Campbell
The journey from self-published to traditionally published author by AJ Campbell I often get asked why I decided to self-publish my books. It all started in the summer of 2019 when I attended the Winchester Writers’ Festival, submitting the first three chapters and a synopsis of my debut novel Leave Well Alone to four literary […]
Writing About Women In Sickness and In Health By Nora Gold
Writing About Women In Sickness and In Health By Nora Gold Since the publication on March 1st of my new book, In Sickness and In Health/Yom Kippur in a Gym (two novellas), many people have asked me why I chose to write one of the novellas about sickness. I point out to them that this […]
Interview with Nancy Burke
Apprentice House Press will release Nancy Burke’s first collection of short stories, Death Cleaning and Other Units of Measure, on May 1, 2024. This is Burke’s fourth book and first short fiction collection. Interview with author, Nancy Burke What inspired this collection? In August 2021, I read Hilma Wolitzer’s collection, Today a Woman Went Mad […]
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