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Small Press Pages July 2025
Small Press Pages July 2025 Despite the evolution of the publishing industry to involve various players besides large publishers (i.e. hybrid, independent, and small publishers as well as digital and audio books), books released by large presses still garner most of the attention. This column hopes to shed light on some of the diverse books […]
Hooked On Tragic Love Stories
By Anastasia Rubis I have a friend whose fiancé was paralyzed in a skiing accident and later died of complications. She still can’t speak his name, though this happened a decade ago, and she refers to him simply as my love. When I told her I was writing a novel about Oriana Fallaci, the legendary […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Diane Papalia Zappa Interviews the Love of her Life
When Bob and Diane met, it was love at first sight. For both of them. In her memoirs, The Married Widow: My Journey with Bob Zappa and its companion piece, Dear Bobby: My Grief Journey, Diane describes the evolution of their relationship from their meeting in 1986 to their marriage in 2015 and his passing […]
Writing for the Long Haul: Notes from the Trenches
By Lucy Burdette In August, The Mango Murders, the fifteenth book in my Key West Food Critic mystery series, will be published—a milestone that astonishes me in some ways and feels completely natural in others. I grew up devouring mystery series. Every week, my mother took us four kids to the library, and we’d come […]
Momentous and Mundane: Spending Time with Writer’s Block
By Callie J. Smith I dread writer’s block. Unfortunately, my most recent novel, The Joy of a Field, left me spending more time with writer’s block than either of the other novels in my Sacred Grounds trilogy. I kept imagining the block creeping out from some opaque corner of my mind where it lived, always […]
The Power of Story and Community
The power of story and community It’s clear that the effects of climate change are already being felt around the world – storms, wildfires, droughts, species extinctions – and also that governments are failing to address it with anything like the urgency that’s needed. One of the best ways to spread the word about the […]
Reading Challenges? Count Me Out
Ellen Notbohm How many books did you read this month? Last year? How many minutes do you spend reading each day? How many pages? Howmanyhowmanyhowmany? Simple answer: I don’t know. Somewhere north of 100 books a year. I no longer keep score. But you’re an author! Don’t you keep a list? True dat, I’m an […]
Writing ‘A Biography of Níkę – ‘Bàtà Mi á Dún Ko Ko Kà’
Kofo Adeleke As an avid reader, storywriter and collector of books since childhood, I actually believe that the desire to write a book had always been within me. But because it happened rather later in life the urge was probably not quite as burning as for some, although I did for a number of years […]
Backstory of My Twin in Budapest
Backstory of My Twin in Budapest Five years ago, my cousin was looking at a stack of old photos at a friend’s house. An image of her friend’s grandmother caught her eye because she thought the lady looked like me, so she sent me a copy of the picture to see what I thought. The […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Amy Blumenfeld
SUCH GOOD PEOPLE By Amy Blumenfeld It’s 10 p.m. on a Thursday in the spring of her freshman year of college, and April is standing at the back of a crowded Manhattan bar waiting for her friend, Rudy, to arrive. Their eyes lock the moment he walks into the room, and in an instant, lives […]
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