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Writing Female-Centric Thrillers: Helping Women Feel Seen in Commercial Crime Fiction
As a female author of commercial thrillers my main aim is for my stories to entertain. Yet it’s also important to me that they’re relatable and an honest reflection of society and the world seen through the eyes of women today. So how do you create a story that resonates emotionally with female readers, while […]
Give Yourself Credit for Showing Up
by Raquel Drosos “Never stop creating.” This is what I write above my signature in every book I autograph. But for a long stretch last year, I stopped following my own advice—and found myself in a bad place. Let me back up. I’m the author of two novels: Games of Chance, a coming-of-age family saga, […]
8 Author Tips to Avoid Body-Shaming in Your Books
By Paulette Stout Our culture is obsessed with body size. It just is. Especially this time of year. How large or small someone’s body is often becomes more consequential to our perceptions of them than who they are as a people. One glance and we’ve already assessed their health, worth ethic, romantic prospects, intelligence, and […]
A writer’s Mindful Adventure Creating Children’s Books that Delight and Calm
By Annamarie Fernyak Today’s children have discriminating palates. I am not talking about their palates for sophisticated food (“Caviar or pate, anyone?”), because Cane’s chicken is overwhelmingly popular where I come from, and kids still love their chicken fingers. I am referring to children’s discriminating palates for entertainment media. Children are used to fast streaming, […]
In A Testy Exchange, Book Character Interviews Her Author
A TINY PIECE OF BLUE For fans of Kristin Hannah’s The Four Winds and Lisa Wingate’s Shelterwood comes a heartwarming historical novel following a homeless young girl as she struggles to survive during the Great Depression. Rural Michigan, 1934. During the throes of the Great Depression, thirteen-year-old Silstice Trayson finds herself homeless, abandoned by her parents after a devastating […]
Threads of Sicily: The Roots Behind Becoming Mariella
by Janet Constantino When a writer friend asked me, “If you could write about anything you wanted, what would that be?” I immediately thought of Sicily, where half my family was born, where my father partially grew up, and where traditions rooted deeply in family and culture and family have shaped lives, especially the lives […]
Reading With Rochelle Weinstein: January
Hello Readers & Friends, That may have been the longest month ever. January gave us a lot to digest, and I want to make a special mention of those affected by the D.C. crash and the Palisades fires. Our hearts are with you and your loved ones. As we enter February, I’m super excited about […]
Making it Work: How to Publish a Book When You’re in the Throes of Grief
By Cindy Eastman My second book was published in September of 2024. Finally. It was a long time coming and the topic was part of the reason for the delay in publishing my second book: it is a memoir in essays about my experience taking care of my dad for the last four years of […]
EXCERPT FROM The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared by Casey Mulligan Walsh
THE FULL CATASTROPHE: ALL I EVER WANTED, EVERYTHING I FEARED, Casey Mulligan Walsh Casey needs a family of her own: the joys and the sorrows, people who love her, and a place she belongs-what Zorba the Greek called “the full catastrophe”-and she’s determined to make it happen. Adrift in the world after losing her father […]
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe by Marlene L. Daut : Excerpt
The essential biography of the controversial revolutionary and only king of Haiti. Henry Christophe (1767 – 1820) is one of the most richly complex figures in the history of the Americas, and was, in his time, popular and famous the world over. In The First and Last King of Haiti, a brilliant, award-winning Yale scholar unravels the still […]
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