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Sleep: The Secret Ingredient that Creativity Needs
Sleep: The Secret Ingredient that Creativity Needs I recently signed a book contract for my 15th book tentatively titled The Loss That Binds Us. It’s a self-help book filled with real, relatable, and holistic tips to navigate grief. It’s a book that my father wanted me to write because he believed we need to normalize grief. It’s […]
Heroines with Unexpected Careers
Heroines with Unexpected Careers by Nan Reinhardt I love reading books where the heroine’s career is unexpected, which is why I had so much fun writing about boat mechanic Joanna Weaver in Meet Me in River’s Edge. I think as women writers (and readers), we want our heroines to have fabulous careers that crash through the […]
The Inspiration for Trouble The Living
When my mother was little, her grandmother told her that she kept her sister’s finger in a teapot above the stove. It was an exaggeration that my mother, the youngest of eight, believed. The truth was somewhat less gory: what lived in the teapot was not her great aunt’s finger, but her engagement ring, blown […]
Jocks Are Inspiring Too by Sarahlyn Bruck
Pop culture enjoys pitting the jocks against the dorks, the popular kids vs. the outcasts. As book lovers, we know which set we’re supposed to identify with–the ones who spend hours in libraries, who kill time browsing bookstores, who fritter away a sunny afternoon indoors on the couch reading a book. We’re the introverts, the […]
THE FIFTH CHAMBER by Anne Gudger: Exclusive Excerpt
THE FIFTH CHAMBER, Anne Gudger Annie is pregnant with her first child and married to the love of her life. Then on one fateful night, her husband dies in an accident and Annie is left alone. Now Annie must navigate the trials of single motherhood, mourning, and learning to love again. Crafted with lightning bolts […]
Reading With Rochelle Weinstein: August Lineup
Hello Readers & Friends, It’s getting HOT in HERE! We’re back from North Carolina, and it’s as steamy as ever in Miami. Hope you’re all staying cool indoors with some fabulous reads. Here are the books I read (and listened) to this month. Congratulations to all the authors, and make sure you add these to […]
Under the Java Moon, Heather B. Moore
Q&A between author Heather B. Moore and Marie (Rita) Vischer Elliott, the woman whose life is fictionalized in Moore’s upcoming historical novel Under the Java Moon: A Novel of World War II. — Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during […]
Writing my Bi-Cultural Girlhood Memoir of Growing up in the Middle East: Dancing Into the Light
Writing my bi-cultural girlhood memoir of growing up in the Middle East: Dancing Into the Light I was once asked why I didn’t write a bi-cultural memoir, since my fiction involved exotic settings in the Middle East and colorful characters I had known intimately growing up. My response was that I still felt too young […]
On Co-Authorship and Expanding the Conversation
On Co-Authorship and Expanding the Conversation By Annika Paradise, co-author of WONDER YEAR: A GUIDE TO LONG-TERM FAMILY TRAVEL AND WORLDSCHOOLING The heart of our new book, Wonder Year: A Guide to Long-term Family Travel and Worldschooling, is collaborative conversation. Part inspiration and part how-to, our book demystifies the seemingly outrageous prospect of embarking on […]
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