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The Shattered King, by Charlie N. Holmberg: Excerpt
The Shattered King A captive healer and a mysterious prince are drawn to each other in the midst of war and magic in a beguiling dark fantasy by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg. The kingdom of Cansere is on the brink of war. Young men are conscripted from their homes, and a royal decree […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Patricia Leavy, author of Cinematic Destinies
CINEMATIC DESTINIES For fans of Tessa Bailey and Hannah Grace, Cinematic Destinies is a feel-good, contemporary romance about a trio of adult children searching for love and beauty in the shadow of their parents’ legendary Hollywood fairy-tale romance. Legendary actor Finn Forrester and his wife philosopher Ella Sinclair Forrester met on the location shoot for Jean Mercier’s […]
L.S. Stratton: Authors Interviewing Characters
IN DEADLY COMPANY An incisive workplace satire and twisty murder mystery featuring a young executive assistant who realizes the peril in being diligently attentive to her boss’s whims. As the assistant of the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, Nicole Underwood has plenty of tasks on her to-do list—one of which is the blowout birthday […]
How Stories Turned a Fiction Writer Into a Memoirist
During college, when my freshman year rhetoric teacher pulled me aside after class and asked if I’d ever considered a career in writing, my heart bloomed. I’d wanted to be an author since I was in the first grade and created a construction paper book complete with illustrations. Still, I didn’t know if I was […]
What’s your Writer Identity? How Your Writing Beliefs Impact Your Writing
By Sarah E. Pearsall What does it mean to be a writer? In my scholarly life, I study writer identity as it pertains to writing teachers, but much of what I research also applies to writers who are not teachers of writing. What the research tells us is that how you identify as a writer […]
Women and War: Letters from Ukraine to the Free World
By Aurélie Bros I became a researcher for a simple reason—to seek truth wherever it may be found. For over a decade, I devoted myself to studying energy geopolitics, with a particular focus on the post-Soviet region. I lived there, published, taught, and conducted my research. My life was intertwined with the region in countless […]
Inspiration Behind The Book By Khadijah VanBrakle
By Khadijah VanBrakle My Perfect Family is a story born out of love.As both an author and an avid reader, I’m drawn to books that include fraught mother/daughter relationships. My love of the Gilmore Girls inspired me to write my sophomore novel that follows a fractured, Black American Muslim family. I strongly believe that every […]
How a Therapy Horse Who Survived a Hurricane Inspired my New Children’s Book Series
The inspiration for the first book in my Bella and Bird the Emotion Explorers series, Bella and Bird Explore Anger, came in the wake of Hurricane Ian; a Category 5 storm that devastated our island in Southwest Florida. Just three weeks earlier, I adopted my horse, Bella, from Southern California as my equine partner in […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: SUSIE TATE
THE OUTLIER by Susie Tate Vicky is an outlier. An outlier in society, an outlier in the business world; she’s even an outlier in her own family. She knows that people find her weird and annoying, and she’s resigned to her loneliness until she sees him. Having never been attracted to any man before, her new […]
A Duck is a Thing with Feathers
Emily Dickenson wrote the famous poem, Hope is a thing with feathers. As soon as the first book in the Simpato Mystery Series came out, I was asked, “When did you start writing humor?” My answer was, “I always did. But it wore a heavy overcoat.” Now it was time to take the coat […]
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