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August Recommended Reads
Infidelity Rules: A Menu For Disaster, The Perils of Loving Food, Wine, and Married Men, Joelle Babula “Infidelity Rules is a delicious escape. The complexities of love and wine pair for an emotional journey alongside characters navigating broken hearts and moral dilemmas.” -Audrey Ingram, author of The River Runs South QUINN DAVIS shatters the norm. She’s […]
A Square Peg in a Round Hole: Writing a Memoir About Schizoid Personality Disorder, I Found My Family
By Blair Sorrel, author of A Schizoid at Smith: How Overparenting Leads to Underachieving This oddball book had a humble origin. Not the legendary cocktail napkin provenance of a famous song (Garth Brooks’ “I Got Friends in Low Places”) or a lowly toilet paper debut (Richard Berry’s “Louie, Louie”). My genre-less opus came into the world […]
What inspired WE ARE THE MATCH
by Mary E. Roach WE ARE THE MATCH is a modern, sapphic reimagining of the myth of Helen of Troy, set against a backdrop of escalating violence between rival crime families. There are so many stories about Helen, and she’s a character that is talked about in so many different types of media, and talked […]
Crossing Borders in Language and Life
How writing in English—and traveling the world—made me a more daring author By Claire Polders I have many reasons for writing in English. I love the language, its words, grammar, and idioms. My husband is from the U.S. and the majority of my friends don’t comprehend my mother tongue. Most of the books, essays, newsletters, and […]
How I Got Published – Julie Shackman
From an early age, I loved writing and reading. I remember reading Princess Daisy by Judith Krantz when I was thirteen and I thought it must be wonderful to write stories and get paid for it! I trained as a journalist and studied Communication & Media, but always harboured a longing to be a romance […]
The Inspiration for My Debut Novel and Its Connection to My Life Perspective
The Inspiration for My Debut Novel and Its Connection to My Life Perspective The inspiration for my debut novel, Out of the Crash, emerged from my sideline view of what happened in my hometown after a pair of tragic bicycle accidents. The facts surrounding each incident shared some similarities but essentially differed. The nuts and […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Laura Resau
The Alchemy of Flowers “Utterly captivating. This beautiful novel casts a whispery spell of dark enchantments, secrets, and myth.” –Evie Woods, bestselling author of The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris A broken woman. A mysterious job ad. A chance to heal in French castle gardens–but strange things are growing behind the ancient stone walls. This […]
Valerie Burns interviews Madison Montgomery from ICING ON THE MURDER
From Agatha and Edgar Award nominated author Valerie Burns, influencer-turned-bakery-owner Maddy Montgomery has sold plenty of wedding cakes before, but before she turns one out for her and her fiancé’s wedding, she’ll have to solve a little case of murder first… Aunt Octavia would be so proud! Maddy has turned Baby Cakes Bakery—named for her […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: J.T. Ellison
LAST SEEN From New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison comes a twisted psychological thriller about the bonds of family and the disconnect between memory and the truth. Come here. Come closer. Halley James knows her marriage is over. But she’s not prepared for the rest of her life to fall apart too. No one can hear […]
Inspiration for Out Of Ukraine
My novel “Out of Ukraine” is based on my true story of accompanying my son to Ukraine to pick up his daughter. He and his wife had used a surrogate in Ukraine because it was a third of the cost of using one in the United States. There were a handful of other countries that […]
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