Buy NOW! I am absolutely stoked to announce that SCATTERED LIGHT, the sequel to the award-winning WINTER LIGHT, was awarded the honor of an Eric Hoffer Fiction Finalist! I congratulate all of the other finalists and to those who captured the top spot! We writers can mark our progress by the company we keep, and the authors in the finalist group are topnotch. Then again, that seems like a logical outcome of the fact that as more books are self-published and published by small

You’ve got time to purchase a book for your favorite teen! The above are my favorites. I'm including WINTER LIGHT because it's got a lot in common with the others — edgy YA — and I'd love for it to one day be among these classics. This special day takes place during a special week: National Library Week , which began in 1958 and is sponsored by the American Library Association. Who’s your favorite teen? And if you have one, and they’re not currently your favorite, they will

Jim Zervanos’ newest book, AMERICAN GYRO is a deeply immersive dive into the world of a Greek-American family in the Philadelphia area. When the book opens, we’re with teenager Johnny Demos’ as he and his family keep vigil at the deathbed of Johnny's grandfather, the patriarchal immigrant who established a restaurant on which the family continues to thrive. But Johnny wants to be free of the expectation he’ll remain in the area and work at the restaurant. He’s got his own dr

by Janet Clare Buy NOW! Janet Clare ’s newest book, TRUE HOME , sings of love amid human imperfections of a kind we all know too well,...

I was doing some research recently and came upon the press release about a play I wrote and that was produced in the summer of 1998 in...

by Cynthia Newberry Martin Every once in a while an author perfectly captures the reality of marriage at a specific, precipitous time in...