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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...

Five Directions Press
Jan 15, 20213 min read
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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...

Five Directions Press
Dec 30, 20204 min read
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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,...

Five Directions Press
Dec 15, 20205 min read
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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...

Five Directions Press
Nov 30, 20205 min read
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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...
C. P. Lesley
Nov 15, 20205 min read
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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....
Joan Schweighardt
Oct 29, 20208 min read
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Books We Loved, Oct. 2020
Books We Loved in October by Catriona Innes, Patricia Morrisroe, Eleanor Parker Sapia, and G. Willow Wilson.

Five Directions Press
Oct 15, 20204 min read
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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.

Five Directions Press
Sep 30, 20206 min read
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Books We Loved, Sep. 2020
Books We Loved in September 2020: Heather Bell Adams, Linda Kass, Madeline Miller, and Tea Obrecht

Five Directions Press
Sep 15, 20204 min read
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Five Directions Press Authors Dish: When I Was 21 (Part 1)
Five Directions Press authors remember the year they turned 21.
Joan Schweighardt
Aug 31, 20207 min read
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Books We Loved, Aug. 2020
Books we loved in Aug. 2020: P.K. Adams, Emily Martin, Deb Olin Unferth, and Heather Webber
C. P. Lesley
Aug 17, 20205 min read
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Spotlight on Barbara Quinn
Interview with the author Barbara Quinn
Joan Schweighardt
Jul 30, 20205 min read
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Books We Loved, Jul. 2020
July picks: Eliot Pattison, Kate Quinn, Erika Rummel, and Sarah-Jane Stratford
C. P. Lesley
Jul 15, 20204 min read
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Five Directions Press Authors Dish: Poetry
Poems by Five Directions Press authors Ariadne Apostolou, Joan Schweighardt, Claudia H. Long, and Gabrielle Mathieu
Joan Schweighardt
Jul 1, 20203 min read
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Books We Loved, June 2020
Books we loved in June by C.W. Gortner, Kathleen Jennings, Toni Morrison, and Anne Tyler
C. P. Lesley
Jun 15, 20205 min read
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Spotlight on Eleanor Parker Sapia
Interview with Eleanor Parker Sapia, author of "A Decent Woman" and the forthcoming "The Laments."
Joan Schweighardt
May 29, 20205 min read
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Books We Loved, May 2020
Books we loved in May: Amy Brill, Colleen Hoover, Carolyn James
C. P. Lesley
May 18, 20204 min read
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Five Directions Press Authors Dish: Trees
Stories about trees for Arbor Day
Joan Schweighardt
Apr 24, 20205 min read
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Books We Loved, Apr. 2020
Book reviews: Ahern, Roar; Coates, Pelton Papers; Cummins, American Dirt; Lynch, Grace
C. P. Lesley
Apr 14, 20204 min read
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Spotlight on C. P. Lesley
Interview with the Five Directions Press author and co-founder C. P. Lesley.
Joan Schweighardt
Mar 30, 20204 min read
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