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Authors Interviewing Characters: Stella Fosse
Brilliant Charming Bastard by Stella Fosse First Wives Club meets The Witches of Eastwick in Brilliant Charming Bastard. When three women scientists discover they are dating the same lying dilettante, who is stealing their ideas as well as their hearts, the best revenge is getting rich. Rose Bingham is a professor of Biology at UC […]
Heliotropism: Turning Toward the Light
Heliotropism: Turning Toward the Light Ruminations of a COVID Thriver by Sallie H. Weissinger I’ve just finished reading Mama’s Last Hug by Frans de Waal about primate behavior and what animal emotions tell us about ourselves. As a lover of animals, both domesticated pets and those non-domesticated ones in the serengeti, savannas, and forests, I […]
Sarah Stonich: On Writing
In my RayAnne trilogy, Fishing! meets up with RayAnne Dahl after she’s fled the misogynistic pro sport-fishing circuit to land out of her league in the rarified realm of public television, which poses its own set of challenges. Reeling is the follow up, wherein RayAnne takes the show abroad to New Zealand. When this character […]
Travel Helped Me Become a Writer – And Fulfilled a Prediction
Travel Helped Me Become a Writer – And Fulfilled a Prediction When I was about eight and living with my parents, grandparents and two siblings in Miami Beach in a two-bedroom bungalow with Cuban tile floors, my father played the horses. I never knew if he would come back from the track smiling or ready […]
The Blogger-Author Relationship—Gaining 5-Star Status
If your relationship with the blogging community consists of a mass email dump to Dear Blogger every time you release a new book, you’re missing the point. Book blogs don’t just add to the string of 5-star reviews you’re hoping to wrap around your new release. Book bloggers also host authors, participate in book hops, and provide content related to reading […]
Best Indie Books of Fall
Looking to support some new indie book releases of the fall season? We’ve got you covered! Here you will find the best of the best indie books releasing this fall. From captivating women’s fiction to moving and inspiring memoirs there is something for everyone! Sugar Birds by Cheryl Grey Bostrom 10-year-old Aggie has grown up […]
I’M GREAT Every Day: A Guided Journal for Creating a Better Self
by Linda Callahan Reading and writing have always been an integral part of my life. My love for reading and writing began at an early age. I was the child who would walk to the library and walk home with my arms laden with books. I especially love journaling. I started keeping a journal when […]
Playing House
Playing House In the 1940’s, Chicago heiress Frances Glessner Lee turned the notion of a dollhouse on its head. Her tiny models of violent crimes taught a new breed of cop to investigate crime scenes—in effect, to play house. She also inspired me, a mystery writer, to reexamine the meaning of home. Born in 1878, […]
Launch Your Book with Great Reviews: 4 Tips to Get You Started
Searching for rocket fuel to launch your book? Great reviews can shoot your masterpiece right up the Amazon lists. Potential buyers demand an unbiased critique of a book’s merits to simplify the task of finding the next great read. Most expect to find at least ten glowing reviews on a book’s product page before they’ll […]
Becoming Jack Hopper
Becoming Jack Hopper (Disclaimer: Nothing I say here will be politically correct) By Joan Schweighardt I had a penchant for writing from multiple points of view from the get-go, but as most of my characters were women, I never had to sustain my “maleness” throughout an entire book. My first first-person male was an English […]
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