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Five Directions Press
- Dec 30, 2020
- 4 min
Spotlight on Claudia H. Long
What writer hasn’t heard of NaNoWriMo, the nonprofit that challenges creative people around the world to write 50,000 words towards a new...
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Five Directions Press
- Dec 15, 2020
- 5 min
Books We Loved, Dec. 2020
Rachael Bloome, The Secret in Sandcastles (Secret Garden Press, 2020) This novel, the third in Rachael Bloome's Poppy Creek series, focus...
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Five Directions Press
- Oct 15, 2020
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Oct. 2020
Books We Loved in October by Catriona Innes, Patricia Morrisroe, Eleanor Parker Sapia, and G. Willow Wilson.
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Five Directions Press
- Sep 30, 2020
- 6 min
Five Directions Press Authors Dish: When I Was 21 (Part 2)
Five Directions Press author Claudia H. Long remembers her 21st year in part 2 of our group post.
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Five Directions Press
- Sep 15, 2020
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Sep. 2020
Books We Loved in September 2020: Heather Bell Adams, Linda Kass, Madeline Miller, and Tea Obrecht
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Joan Schweighardt
- Aug 31, 2020
- 7 min
Five Directions Press Authors Dish: When I Was 21 (Part 1)
Five Directions Press authors remember the year they turned 21.
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C. P. Lesley
- Aug 17, 2020
- 5 min
Books We Loved, Aug. 2020
Books we loved in Aug. 2020: P.K. Adams, Emily Martin, Deb Olin Unferth, and Heather Webber
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Joan Schweighardt
- Jul 30, 2020
- 5 min
Spotlight on Barbara Quinn
Interview with the author Barbara Quinn
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C. P. Lesley
- Jul 15, 2020
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Jul. 2020
July picks: Eliot Pattison, Kate Quinn, Erika Rummel, and Sarah-Jane Stratford
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C. P. Lesley
- Jun 15, 2020
- 5 min
Books We Loved, June 2020
Books we loved in June by C.W. Gortner, Kathleen Jennings, Toni Morrison, and Anne Tyler
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Joan Schweighardt
- May 29, 2020
- 5 min
Spotlight on Eleanor Parker Sapia
Interview with Eleanor Parker Sapia, author of "A Decent Woman" and the forthcoming "The Laments."
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C. P. Lesley
- May 18, 2020
- 4 min
Books We Loved, May 2020
Books we loved in May: Amy Brill, Colleen Hoover, Carolyn James
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Joan Schweighardt
- Apr 24, 2020
- 5 min
Five Directions Press Authors Dish: Trees
Stories about trees for Arbor Day
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C. P. Lesley
- Apr 14, 2020
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Apr. 2020
Book reviews: Ahern, Roar; Coates, Pelton Papers; Cummins, American Dirt; Lynch, Grace
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Joan Schweighardt
- Mar 30, 2020
- 4 min
Spotlight on C. P. Lesley
Interview with the Five Directions Press author and co-founder C. P. Lesley.
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