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Jessica Strawser: Authors Interviewing Characters

Jessica Strawser: Authors Interviewing Characters

CATCH YOU LATER If Lark and Mikki didn’t have each other, they’d have nothing in this miserable town. So the lifelong best friends stick together, working night shift at the highway travel stop, going nowhere fast. Until the ordinary Wednesday that a good-looking stranger stops in on his all-night drive to a destination beach wedding, […]

October 22, 2024 | By | Reply More
The Inspiration For Finding KIND: Discovering Hope and Purpose While Loving Kids with Invisible Neurological Differences 

The Inspiration For Finding KIND: Discovering Hope and Purpose While Loving Kids with Invisible Neurological Differences 

Kari A. Baker  I never planned to become an author, which is ironic since I spent 30 years in the financial services business as – you guessed it – a planner. But when my son was diagnosed with autism at age 3, my plan went  out the window.   I started writing what would ultimately become Finding […]

October 22, 2024 | By | Reply More
Authors Interviewing Characters: Stephanie Vasquez

Authors Interviewing Characters: Stephanie Vasquez

ALL OUR WARS For fans of Katie Gutierrez’s More Than You’ll Ever Know and Netflix’s Narcos comes a high-stakes thriller about the daughter of a high-ranking Mexican cartel leader dragged back to the life she fought hard to escape. Twelve years have passed since Sofia De Luna’s mother was murdered. Sofia now leads a quiet life in Chicago, far […]

October 22, 2024 | By | Reply More
Erica Miner: On Writing

Erica Miner: On Writing

In 2010, an article on npr.org posited the theory that rabid fans of grisly online series should consider opera as an alternative to feed their bloodlust. To wit, violent shows such as Game of Thrones don’t hold a candle to the operatic carnage in Bartok’s Bluebeard Castle, Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia, Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites, […]

October 22, 2024 | By | Reply More
On Writing Girl, Uncoded: A Memoir of Passion, Betrayal, and Eventual Blessings

On Writing Girl, Uncoded: A Memoir of Passion, Betrayal, and Eventual Blessings

By Brandi Dredge What inspired you to write a book?  I love that question because the answer is the perfect blend of what is known and what isn’t. What we can see, hear, taste, touch, and what we can’t. The inspiration is the physical and spiritual that melded together to create a comforting and hearty […]

October 22, 2024 | By | Reply More
Authors Interviewing Characters: Kes Trester

Authors Interviewing Characters: Kes Trester

Authors Interviewing Characters: Kes Trester, author of The Nine series—The Nine, Alder House, and the upcoming To The Nines—and A Dangerous Year. The Nine is a “Gripping paranormal series starter whose heroine boldly flips the script.”—BOOKLIFE Editor’s Pick The Nine is an ancient society dedicated to preserving the safety and secrecy of the paranormally gifted […]

October 22, 2024 | By | Reply More
How I Used My Mixed-Race Identity to Inform My Debut Historical Novel, Sleeping in the Sun

How I Used My Mixed-Race Identity to Inform My Debut Historical Novel, Sleeping in the Sun

by Joanne Howard In my debut novel, Sleeping in the Sun, I delve into the complexities of identity and belonging through the lens of an American missionary family in 1930s India. Set against the backdrop of the waning years of the British Raj, the novel explores the unique outsider position of the Hintons, an American […]

October 22, 2024 | By | Reply More
EXCLUSIVE COVER REVEAL of Maddie Rose Andry’s MORTAL END

EXCLUSIVE COVER REVEAL of Maddie Rose Andry’s MORTAL END

Why a Cherry Blossom Tree? By Maddie Rose Andry, author of Mortal End What does a cherry blossom tree have to do with vampires you ask? Back in 2008 the moment I glimpsed the arthritic and ancient cherry tree at the Owen Rose Garden in Eugene Oregon something in my heart cracked. With each step […]

October 21, 2024 | By | Reply More
Launch Diaries: The Day I Stopped Querying

Launch Diaries: The Day I Stopped Querying

I spent three years in the query trenches, determined to land a literary agent.  For much of that time, I wasn’t part of a writerly community (didn’t believe I qualified), had told no one what I was attempting (seemed easier should I fail), and didn’t know any published/aspiring fiction authors. All I had were loose […]

October 21, 2024 | By | Reply More
Cornelia Spelman Interviews Her Younger Self

Cornelia Spelman Interviews Her Younger Self

SOLACE  by Cornelia Spelman is told with “compelling frankness and consistent intimacy” (Naomi Shihab Nye, author of Everything Comes Next and Voices in the Air). It asks: how do we become the person we are? A portrait of the emotional legacies and psychological landscapes that shaped the author’s life, SOLACE unfurls in a series of […]

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