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The Royal Windsor Secret – A Life in Jewels
The Royal Windsor Secret – A Life in Jewels By Christine Wells, author of The Royal Windsor Secret It was a tough job researching the most exquisite jewellery in the world for my novel, The Royal Windsor Secret, but someone had to do it! If only an author could justify the purchase of some of […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Laura Picklesimer
About Kill for Love: Kill for Love is a satirical thriller about Tiffany, a privileged Los Angeles sorority sister who is struggling to keep her sadistic impulses—and haunting nightmares of fire and destruction—at bay. After a frat party hookup devolves into a bloody affair, Tiffany realizes something within her has awoken: the insatiable desire to […]
Writing a Book Under a Tight Deadline by L.G. Davis
Writing a Book Under a Tight Deadline by L.G. Davis I know firsthand the exhilarating mix of excitement and trepidation that comes with facing a tight deadline for writing a book. Just last year, I was juggling four books simultaneously and even editing three or four of them at the same time. One of those […]
Sleep: The Secret Ingredient that Creativity Needs
Sleep: The Secret Ingredient that Creativity Needs I recently signed a book contract for my 15th book tentatively titled The Loss That Binds Us. It’s a self-help book filled with real, relatable, and holistic tips to navigate grief. It’s a book that my father wanted me to write because he believed we need to normalize grief. It’s […]
Heroines with Unexpected Careers
Heroines with Unexpected Careers by Nan Reinhardt I love reading books where the heroine’s career is unexpected, which is why I had so much fun writing about boat mechanic Joanna Weaver in Meet Me in River’s Edge. I think as women writers (and readers), we want our heroines to have fabulous careers that crash through the […]
The Inspiration for Trouble The Living
When my mother was little, her grandmother told her that she kept her sister’s finger in a teapot above the stove. It was an exaggeration that my mother, the youngest of eight, believed. The truth was somewhat less gory: what lived in the teapot was not her great aunt’s finger, but her engagement ring, blown […]
Jocks Are Inspiring Too by Sarahlyn Bruck
Pop culture enjoys pitting the jocks against the dorks, the popular kids vs. the outcasts. As book lovers, we know which set we’re supposed to identify with–the ones who spend hours in libraries, who kill time browsing bookstores, who fritter away a sunny afternoon indoors on the couch reading a book. We’re the introverts, the […]
THE FIFTH CHAMBER by Anne Gudger: Exclusive Excerpt
THE FIFTH CHAMBER, Anne Gudger Annie is pregnant with her first child and married to the love of her life. Then on one fateful night, her husband dies in an accident and Annie is left alone. Now Annie must navigate the trials of single motherhood, mourning, and learning to love again. Crafted with lightning bolts […]
Where do Stories come from?
Where do stories come from? – Tracy Fells on the inspiration behind The Naming of Moths and other short stories I love coffee and cake, and seek out great cafés to enjoy them together. One café visit triggered the writing of my most successful short story ‘The Naming of Moths’, which won the 2017 Commonwealth […]
Reading With Rochelle Weinstein: August Lineup
Hello Readers & Friends, It’s getting HOT in HERE! We’re back from North Carolina, and it’s as steamy as ever in Miami. Hope you’re all staying cool indoors with some fabulous reads. Here are the books I read (and listened) to this month. Congratulations to all the authors, and make sure you add these to […]
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