Monthly picks for good reading: Jen Beagin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Agatha Frost, and Kayte Nunn

Interview with Jacqueline Church Simonds, author of Captain Mary, Buccaneer; and the Heirs to Camelot series.

Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna (HarperCollins, 2009) An uneasy task, mixing the fictional with the historical, but Kingsolver succeeds in...

Oh, we love our pets at Five Directions Press. We love them so much that we wrote our hearts outs describing them, and now have to share...

And let’s not forget our own C. P. Lesley’s Song of the Shaman, released January 14, 2020. Find out more about the second in her Songs of...

Lynn C. Miller is a writer, a playwright, a performer, an instructor, the cofounder of a magazine, and so much more. Her life in the...

Christopher Brown, Rule of Capture (Harper Voyager, 2019) Donny Kimoe, a wisecracking lawyer who used to work for the prosecution and has...

Oh, we love our pets at Five Directions Press. We love them so much that we wrote our hearts out describing them, and now have to share...

Here are three novels we particularly enjoyed this month. But don’t stop there. We also published two new books of our own this fall, so...

As much as I love historical fiction—especially historical fiction set in Russia and Eastern Europe (assuming the authors know what...

And while you’re browsing all these wonderful books, don’t miss our latest release: Joan Schweighardt’s Gifts for the Dead, book 2 in her...

According to online urban dictionaries, BFF has a variety of possible meanings, at least one of which is vulgar. Rest assured; here at...

Angie Cruz, Dominicana (Flatiron Books, 2019) Police raids on a factory to round up undocumented immigrants; a brown-skinned immigrant...

It’s my great pleasure to interview Joy Castro for this Spotlight feature. With her permission I’d like to introduce her with her recent...

Anna Burns, Milkman (Faber and Faber, 2018) “The day Somebody McSomebody put a gun to my breast and called me a cat and threatened to...

“Anything worth doing is worth overdoing,” Mick Jagger has said. And we agree. To a point. Regarding some things. C. P. Lesley:...

Kate Braithwaite, The Girl Puzzle (Crooked Cat Books, 2019) In 1887 Elizabeth Cochrane—a young reporter from Pittsburgh desperate to land...

With this post, Five Directions Press author Joan Schweighardt—the author of The Last Wife of Attila the Hun and Before We Died, among...

Ana Johns, The Woman in the White Kimono (Park Row Books, 2019) Naoko Nakamura is only seventeen when she falls madly in love with an...

Since newer writers are always asking us old-timers for hot tips, this month we are dishing about the psychology of villains, the...