I’ll bet some of you love Westerns, both books and movies. If so, the town of San Juan Bautista in CA along the old El Camino Real is a...

Buy NOW! Over the years I’ve had the great fortune to read books written by writers who’ve used my book to create fantastic characters...

Listen NOW! As a writer, I write about everything, both personal and not. Since the last election, I’ve been on a personal journey to...

by Steve Zettler Available to preorder! Steve Zettler ’s forthcoming thriller. TICK... TICK... TICK ( Vine Leaves Press , March 25,...

Buy NOW! While camping beside a lake, I once woke to the sound of a loon. It was one of the eeriest, most beautiful sounds I’ve ever...

Another year coming, and so many great ways to help the world! I’m throwing my energy into helping fellow authors succeed with their...

I loved meeting so many of you this year, and keeping up with those of you whom I’ve known for a long time now. Whatever your...

Buy NOW! Winter is most definitely the time to think about Mary Donahue, who, at the age of 15, is heading into the blizzard winter of...

Happy New Year to all of you! Here’s what’s on my reading list (the links are through Bookshop.org , so purchases benefit independent...

Who’s the woman warrior in your life? That’s the question I asked the women who participated in the American Historical Novels Facebook...

Buy NOW! Happiness, let alone bliss, is definitely a complex experience that can be tricky to attain. Just check the 2024 World...

by Joanna Kadish Joanna Kadish writes beautifully about the brutal truths of living a thousand lives in a single lifetime in FLIRTING...

If you’ve lost family due to differences, I hope you reconnect with the similarities between you and reclaim the love they offer. And...

When writing BLISS ROAD , I came to understand how hard achieving happiness can be, not only for me, but for everyone. After the...

Please join me and so many other fantastic fellow historical fiction writers for this fun holiday event! I’ll be online from 11 - 2 p.m....

Buy NOW! Mary Donahue, the 15-year-old protagonist of my novel, WINTER LIGHT, which takes place in 1978-79 Chicago, listens to a lot of...

By Eleanor Vincent Reading Eleanor Vincent’s just-released memoir DISCONNECTED: PORTRAIT OF A NEURODIVERSE MARRIAGE , about navigating...

When I went to journalism school, the maxim was, “Question everything.” I still follow that rule, not only when writing, but when reading...

A fan of poetry, I wanted to feature the work of Ogbonna Osita Daniel , a young poet who lives in Nigeria and writes under the psyeudonym...

Every time I go to the coast, I see these dudes sitting in this almost-dead tree, staring out at the ocean. They’re cormorants, but their...