Books We Loved, Sept. 2021
Lauren Layne, To Sir, with Love (Gallery Books, 2021) I was sort of angry when I read the synopsis for To Sir, With Love by Lauren Layne....
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Joan Schweighardt
- Aug 30, 2021
- 4 min
Spotlight on Jordan Rosenfeld
Jordan Rosenfeld is receptive to inspiration but knows how to work without it when she has to. She can build out a plot step by step, but...
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Five Directions Press
- Aug 15, 2021
- 5 min
Books We Loved, Aug. 2021
As we approach the last full month of summer (and where did those last two months go?), we still have time for long, lazy days of...
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C. P. Lesley
- Jul 30, 2021
- 5 min
Writing Tips: Getting into Character
With this issue of our online newsletter, we’re starting a new feature called “Writing Tips.” If you’ve always dreamed of producing your...
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Five Directions Press
- Jul 14, 2021
- 4 min
Books We Loved, July 2021
Linda Browning, It Otter Be a Crime (Amazon, 2021) If you enjoyed the Emmy-award-winning The Golden Girls TV series back in the day, then...
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Joan Schweighardt
- Jun 30, 2021
- 3 min
Spotlight on Donna Pedace
Donna Pedace discovered her literary talents on the heels of several already engaging and colorful careers. But rather than write a novel...
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C. P. Lesley
- Jun 15, 2021
- 6 min
Books We Loved, June 2021
Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (Henry Holt, 2021) I read Shadow and Bone after watching the fantasy Netflix series of the same name. It’s...
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Joan Schweighardt
- May 28, 2021
- 5 min
When the Muse Is in Hiding
What to do when the Muse takes a break? Joan Schweighardt has thoughts on this question.
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C. P. Lesley
- May 14, 2021
- 5 min
Books We Loved, May 2021
Chang-Rae Lee, My Year Abroad (Riverhead Books, 2021) My Year Abroad is divided into chapters describing narrator Tiller Bardmon’s life...
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Joan Schweighardt
- Apr 29, 2021
- 5 min
Spotlight on Linda S. Browning
Linda S. Browning had to wait for retirement to start writing novels, but she is making up for lost time with eleven well-received books...
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C. P. Lesley
- Apr 15, 2021
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Apr. 2021
Anne Louise Bannon, Death of the Zanjero (Healcroft House, 2018) It’s 1870, and Maddie Wilcox, a young widow supporting herself by...
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Five Directions Press
- Mar 14, 2021
- 5 min
Books We Loved, Mar. 2021
Nina Bocci, The Ingredients of You and Me (Gallery Books, 2020) Miscommunication is a commonly used plot device in romance novels, and if...
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Joan Schweighardt
- Feb 28, 2021
- 7 min
Spotlight on Phyllis M Skoy
We’re pleased to introduce you to Phyllis Skoy, whose sincere interest in other people led her to a successful career as a psychoanalyst...
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Five Directions Press
- Feb 15, 2021
- 4 min
Books We Loved, Feb. 2021
Lots of good picks here, and—if you enjoy historical fiction set in a lesser-known time and place (sixteenth-century Russia), don’t miss...
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Five Directions Press
- Jan 29, 2021
- 6 min
Five Directions Press Authors Dish: Snow
This month’s dish topic was a no-brainer. On the day we picked to decide on it, the white stuff was falling across much of the country....
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Five Directions Press
- Jan 15, 2021
- 3 min
Books We Loved, Jan. 2021
Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze (Avon, 2020) Catalina Baylor is the titular Prime of House Baylor, where she and her crew, including her...
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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,...
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Five Directions Press
- Nov 30, 2020
- 5 min
Five Directions Press Authors Dish: First Political Act
Being too discreet to discuss the politics of the moment at our virtual watercooler, this month we Five Directions Press authors are...
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C. P. Lesley
- Nov 15, 2020
- 5 min
Books We Loved, Nov. 2020
Jennifer Ashley, Death below Stairs (Berkley, 2018) When Galit Gottlieb, the host of New Books in Literature and a mystery writer...
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