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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 221 min read


Love Reading/Watching Westerns? San Juan Bautista is Your Go-to!
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...

marthaengber
Jan 151 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 131 min read


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

marthaengber
Jan 61 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 61 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 19, 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


Tis the Season to Read Poe's THE RAVEN!
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...

marthaengber
Nov 1, 20245 min read


Extreme Weather: THE WIND THIEF
Buy NOW! This is a photo of a “supercell” from the Wikipedia page about a particularly rare and deadly “rotating thunderstorm”...

marthaengber
Oct 28, 20241 min read


5 Indigenous Colorado Authors
Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! I’m here in Colorado this week to celebrate my birthday with my sisters and their husbands. What better...

marthaengber
Oct 14, 20241 min read


Roz Morris Interview of Alycia Vreeland
I love helping other authors, so by forwarding a Roz Morris interview with artist and author Alycia Vreeland (her illustration...

marthaengber
Oct 9, 20241 min read


THE FALCON on "Recommended Reads" List!
Thanks to Women Writers, Women’s Books for including THE FALCON, THE WOLF AND THE HUMMINGBIRD on its “Recommended Reads” list for...

marthaengber
Oct 1, 20241 min read


Literature That Transports Readers
Buy NOW! When I first began writing THE WIND THIEF , I didn’t have the means or time to visit Morocco , where much of the story about...

marthaengber
Sep 16, 20241 min read


Martha's List of Book Recommendation Sites
Where do you find your books? Mostly word of mouth, book award lists, book reviewers, publishers’ newsletters? A lot of book...

marthaengber
Aug 20, 20241 min read


WINTER LIGHT: Almost 3 and Still Shining
Buy NOW! There are MILLIONS of books published every year, so when I do as I do occasionally and check my Amazon rating to see #54 for...

marthaengber
Aug 19, 20241 min read


Books for Strong Women About Strong Women
I love my fellow women, because they… succeed in a world built and run by men raise one another up offer help and support daily naturally...

marthaengber
Jul 22, 20241 min read


Genre Quiz: What Types Do You Like??
Recently while talking with someone about books, I explained my theory: the type of books we like are based on our brain types. My mind...

marthaengber
Jun 24, 20241 min read
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