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Female Heroes: Pino and Boudica
Buy NOW! When taking part in the American Historical Novel Facebook page holiday giveaway some months ago, I asked readers who their...

marthaengber
Mar 24, 20251 min read


Screenwriting: Takes a Village That Includes EJ DeBrun!
Contact EJ “If a TV show gets produced, it’s a miracle.” When EJ DeBrun said those words while speaking on a panel at the San Francisco...

marthaengber
Mar 19, 20252 min read


Developmental Edit of Next Book Underway
I just started the developmental edit of SCATTERED LIGHT (published by Vine Leaves Press Nov. 2025), the Mary Donahue sequel to WINTER...

marthaengber
Mar 2, 20251 min read


Choosing My Book for Your Next Book Club Pick!
You gotta love your sisters! Or at least I do mine. They and their book club have chosen my book, THE FALCON, THE WOLF AND THE...

marthaengber
Feb 24, 20251 min read


Fiction Can Lead to Increased Empathy
1978 was my freshman year at Lyons Township High School in La Grange, IL. I’ll admit I was pretty straight-laced, so I would have...

marthaengber
Feb 17, 20251 min read


Book Review: "Listen to Me"
by Cordelia Biddle LISTEN TO ME by Cordelia Frances Biddle is an amazingly inventive book! The author writes from the viewpoint of many...

marthaengber
Feb 5, 20251 min read


Book Review: "Listen to Me"
by Cordelia Frances Biddle LISTEN TO ME an amazingly inventive book! Author Cordelia Frances Biddle writes from the viewpoint of many...

marthaengber
Feb 4, 20251 min read


Are Autism and Narcissism Linked?
When working on my memoir, BLISS ROAD ( Vine Leaves Press ), one of my early readers asked if narcissism and Autism Spectrum Disorder ...

marthaengber
Feb 3, 20252 min read


Happy Book Birthday THE WIND THIEF!
Buy NOW! I started writing THE WIND THIEF before the changing climate started bringing us the more extreme weather phenomenons of our...

marthaengber
Jan 22, 20251 min read


Happy Birthday "Growing Great Characters"!
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...

marthaengber
Jan 13, 20251 min read


"Falcon" Research: Bird Calls and Birdsong
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...

marthaengber
Jan 6, 20251 min read


New Year: Service Projects for 2025
Another year coming, and so many great ways to help the world! I’m throwing my energy into helping fellow authors succeed with their...

marthaengber
Dec 30, 20241 min read


Happy Holidays 2024!
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...

marthaengber
Dec 25, 20241 min read


Mary Donahue Means Winter
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...

marthaengber
Dec 23, 20241 min read


New Year's Reading List 2025
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...

marthaengber
Dec 18, 20241 min read


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

marthaengber
Dec 16, 20241 min read


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

marthaengber
Dec 16, 20242 min read


Book Review: "Flirting With Extinction"
by Joanna Kadish Joanna Kadish writes beautifully about the brutal truths of living a thousand lives in a single lifetime in FLIRTING...

marthaengber
Dec 3, 20241 min read


Dec. 7 American Historical Novel Giveaway!
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....

marthaengber
Nov 18, 20241 min read


Writing to Music: WINTER LIGHT playlist
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...

marthaengber
Nov 11, 20241 min read
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