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Authors Interviewing Characters: Beth Miller
THE FRIENDSHIP LIST Wiping away her tears, Kay looks at her old photos, of friends who have come and gone through life’s big moments. But then there’s Rose, her one constant through everything. Now Rose is missing, does the key to finding her lie in their past? It should have been the happiest day of Kay’s life. […]
Small Press Pages August 2025
By Christina Consolino Midway through August and many students are heading back to school. Which means some folks will have more time to read and others less. As a teacher myself, my time will decrease, but that doesn’t mean I won’t try my hardest to squeeze in as much reading as I can. Regardless of […]
My Writing Journey
By Karen King I grew up in a family of readers. My parents were avid readers and books were a plenty in our house so it was no wonder that I, and my siblings, became readers too. We were lucky enough to have a well-stocked public library around the corner from the street we lived […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Emma St. Clair
If All Else Sails In this grumpy-sunshine romance, school nurse Josie and her brother’s best friend–hockey player Wyatt Jacobs–are tricked into spending a summer together that’s anything but smooth sailing. When Josie’s brother sends her to a random address for their (sometimes) annual Super Summer Sibling Extravaganza, she finds neither siblings nor extravaganzas. Instead, ends […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Carla Malden
PLAYBACK 34-year-old Mari Caldwell is fiercely disappointed in herself. She’s done the one thing she always promised herself she would never do: raise her young daughter in a broken home, just as she had been raised. Professionally, making a living by photographing real estate has subsumed her dream of becoming a rock ‘n’ roll photographer. […]
Dani Alpert: On Writing
by Dani Alpert My debut memoir, The Girlfriend Mom, was published at the height of the pandemic. I had no interest in writing another book after that experience. For a few fleeting moments, I did think about writing a follow-up, The Ex-Girlfriend Mom, because so much had happened since the original. But I was over […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Julia London
New York Times bestselling author Julia London returns with a story about forgiveness and second chances perfect for fans of The Wedding People and The Husbands. After forty-two years, Lorna Lott is ready to learn where she’s going with her life–even if it means revisiting all the places she wishes she hadn’t been. It’ll be fine. Probably. Maybe. Lorna […]
When a Character Shows up in the Flesh
By Cheryl Grey Bostrom author of What the River Keeps — I arrived home to a friend rising from a chair in my home office. She laid an early reader’s copy of my newest novel What the River Keeps on my desk and squared her heavy frame to mine. “I have a bone to pick […]
Confessions of a Wannabe Harvey Girl – Juliette Fay
I first learned about Harvey Girls while doing research for one of my previous novels, City of Flickering Light. The story follows three friends who catch a train to Hollywood so they can try their luck as actors. It was a long trip, so I knew they had to eat. How did railroad passengers get […]
Unearthed: The Lies We Carry & The Truths They Bury, EXCERPT
Unearthed: The Lies We Carry & The Truths They Bury In this searing memoir, Chanchal Garg reveals the spiritual and sexual abuse that shattered her sense of self and forced her to question a life defined by duty and sacrifice. Raised as a devoted Indian daughter, she was taught never to question authority-until a transformative […]
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