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Books We Loved, Nov. 2016
Kate Braithwaite, Charlatan (Fireship Press, 2016) Think of Louis XIV, and we think of Versailles. But the City of Light also played host...
C. P. Lesley
Nov 15, 20163 min read


New Release: A Holiday Wish
Courtney J. Hall takes a detour from sixteenth-century Europe in A Holiday Wish, the first book in the Silver Bells series. In what is...
C. P. Lesley
Nov 3, 20161 min read


Books We Loved, Oct. 2016
Pauline M. Campos, Baby Fat: Adventures in Motherhood, Muffin Tops, and Trying to Stay Sane (CreateSpace, 2015) When I had my first baby...
C. P. Lesley
Oct 14, 20163 min read


Spotlight on Shelly Reuben
You previously worked as an arson investigator and a PI. What inspired you to turn to writing? Actually, it was the other way around. I...
Courtney J. Hall
Sep 21, 20165 min read


Books We Loved, Sep. 2016
Martha Conway, Sugarland (Noontime Books, 2016) It’s 1921, and Prohibition is in full swing, but you wouldn’t know it from the nightclubs...
C. P. Lesley
Sep 14, 20162 min read


Books We Loved, Aug. 2016
Stephanie Cowell, Claude and Camille (2011) Lyrical novel about Claude Monet and the woman who loved him despite the opposition of her...
C. P. Lesley
Aug 14, 20162 min read


Five Directions Press News
Don’t miss the release of The Falcon Flies Alone, book 1 in Gabrielle Mathieu’s Falcon Trilogy, on August 3, 2016. You can find out more...
C. P. Lesley
Jul 29, 20161 min read


Books We Loved, July 2016
Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden (Thomas & Mercer, 2016) Not for the faint of heart, The Butterfly Garden is creepy crime fiction...
C. P. Lesley
Jul 14, 20162 min read


Books We Loved, June 2016
Lynn C. Miller, The Day after Death (University of New Mexico Press, 2016) To survive, children tend to block out the worst of the bad...
C. P. Lesley
Jun 15, 20162 min read


Spotlight on J. D. Smith
What drew you to the story of Tristan and Iseult, and why did you decide to write your own version of the tale? My interest was first...
Courtney J. Hall
Jun 15, 20163 min read


Books We Loved, May 2016
Jennifer Robson, Moonlight over Paris (William Morrow, 2016) This novel about post-war Paris and the Lost Generation is as sparkling and...
C. P. Lesley
May 15, 20163 min read


Books We Loved, Apr. 2016
Anjali Mitter Duva, Faint Promise of Rain (She Writes Press, 2014) A rare rainstorm greets the birth of a girl into the family of the...
C. P. Lesley
Apr 14, 20162 min read


Spotlight on Sophie Perinot
What first drew you to the royal court of France? The roots of my love of French history lie in two things. First, when I was young I got...
Courtney J. Hall
Mar 17, 20164 min read


Books We Loved, Mar. 2016
Jennifer Weiner, All Fall Down (Atria Books, 2014) Alternating between hilarious and gut-wrenching, infuriating and uplifting, Jennifer...
C. P. Lesley
Mar 15, 20162 min read


Books We Loved, Feb. 2016
Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale (St. Martin’s Press, 2015) The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah’s moving story of the French Resistance during...
C. P. Lesley
Feb 15, 20162 min read


Books We Loved, Jan. 2016
This is the first of our monthly “Books We Loved” posts. They are not recommendations, exactly—everyone’s taste differs—but if you enjoy...
C. P. Lesley
Jan 15, 20162 min read


Spotlight on Liza Perrat
Where did you get the idea for the Bone Angel Trilogy? The idea for the first in the series, Spirit of Lost Angels, came to me on a...
Courtney J. Hall
Dec 20, 20153 min read


Spotlight on Ariadne Apostolou
How does your second novel, West End Quartet, relate to Seeking Sophia, your debut novel? WEQ is actually four related novellas about...
Courtney J. Hall
Sep 3, 20152 min read


Welcome to Our Newsletter Archive
Here you will find the highlights of our past quarterly newsletters: interviews with authors, books we recommend as worth reading, and...
C. P. Lesley
Sep 1, 20151 min read
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