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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Joan Schweighardt
- Oct 29, 2020
- 8 min
Spotlight on Kate Niles
Between the years of 1999 and 2005, just before the advent of digital books and books on demand, I had my own indie publishing company....
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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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Joan Schweighardt
- Jul 1, 2020
- 3 min
Five Directions Press Authors Dish: Poetry
Poems by Five Directions Press authors Ariadne Apostolou, Joan Schweighardt, Claudia H. Long, and Gabrielle Mathieu
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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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