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Sarah Stonich: On Writing
In my RayAnne trilogy, Fishing! meets up with RayAnne Dahl after she’s fled the misogynistic pro sport-fishing circuit to land out of her league in the rarified realm of public television, which poses its own set of challenges. Reeling is the follow up, wherein RayAnne takes the show abroad to New Zealand. When this character […]
Travel Helped Me Become a Writer – And Fulfilled a Prediction
Travel Helped Me Become a Writer – And Fulfilled a Prediction When I was about eight and living with my parents, grandparents and two siblings in Miami Beach in a two-bedroom bungalow with Cuban tile floors, my father played the horses. I never knew if he would come back from the track smiling or ready […]
The Blogger-Author Relationship—Gaining 5-Star Status
If your relationship with the blogging community consists of a mass email dump to Dear Blogger every time you release a new book, you’re missing the point. Book blogs don’t just add to the string of 5-star reviews you’re hoping to wrap around your new release. Book bloggers also host authors, participate in book hops, and provide content related to reading […]
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 […]
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 […]
On Writing A Memoir by Sandra CH Smith
Good grief…write a memoir? Unwrap all the little boxes and let the dark secrets out? Let them all know who I really am or was? You’ve gotta be kidding! No way, Jose! Well, that’s what I thought when someone suggested I write a book about the seven years I spent sailing alone in the Pacific. […]
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 […]
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