Category: On Writing
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 […]
The Easy Life in Kamusari EXCERPT
From Shion Miura, the award-winning author of The Great Passage, comes a rapturous novel where the contemporary and the traditional meet amid the splendor of Japan’s mountain way of life. We are delighted to feature this excerpt! The Easy Life in Kamusari Yuki Hirano, is just out of high school when his parents enroll him, against […]
Local Woman Writing: Interview with Mary Kubica
LOCAL WOMAN WRITING I meet Mary Kubica outside at a darling coffee shop in downtown Plainfield, Illinois. She’s wearing a jacket, hands cupped around a warm coffee, even though its plenty warm outside, spring having recently—finally—arrived in the Chicago suburbs. She greets me with a warm smile and quick hug. The coffee shop is closed […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Joy Castro
From International Latino Book Award and Nebraska Book Award-winning author Joy Castro, comes FLIGHT RISK (11/1), a heartbreaking, suspenseful, and ultimately triumphant novel split between Appalachia and Chicago. Drawing on her own personal experiences, memoirist and Willa Cather Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Castro crafts the wrenching story of Isabel Morales. Isabel is a successful […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Laurel Schmidt
Laurel Schmidt, author of How To Be Dead: A Love Story, interviews the main character, Frances Beacon. How to Be Dead — A Love Story by Laurel Schmidt explores what it means to be fully alive — even in the afterlife. A tale told with humor, heart, and intelligence, it celebrates the power of memory and […]
Unstuck: Writing the Beginning Over and Over
This blog series, Unstuck, explores some of the ways fiction writers find themselves stuck and offers tips from successful writers for getting unstuck. Unstuck is a six-month series published the first Monday of the month. Every writer gets stuck at one time or another. Being stuck can trigger feelings of anxiety and self-doubt (to name […]
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