Part of me is always surprised when I learn about a service I take for granted that turns out to be a relatively new concept. That was the case when I learned the first tax-supported library in the US was established in 1833 in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Less than a hundred years ago! I would have been toast without a library, especially in my youth. Reading helped me deal with everything: my emotions, insights into human nature, curiosity about places I’d never been. More

Buy NOW! Three years ago today started my launch week for BLISS ROAD, my memoir about being the daughter of an undiagnosed autistic dad. Since then the book continues to sell well, primarily because of people like you who recommend it to neurodiverse families — those with special needs and those without — who need some help in understanding the challenges they face. Thank you! ___ For updates about Martha’s forthcoming books, news and giveaways, subscribe to her website: Mart

Buy NOW! April is Autism Awareness Month, so on my author page I’ll be posting about BLISS ROAD and my experience of growing up the daughter of an undiagnosed autistic dad. I wanted to post generally, though, to continue promoting the idea that all members of a neurodiverse family are affected by the neurodiversity. While some of the challenges are rough and cause trouble, there are also amazing outcomes. While my dad’s undiagnosed condition definitely caused challenges, he a

Schedule of readings Congratulations to Jacque Gorelick , who will be joining me at the Truckee Lit Crawl on April 11 in the beautiful Lake Tahoe area! If you're in Truckee or the SF Bay Area of CA, check out the schedule for my reading of my newest novel, SCATTERED LIGHT . Here's the schedule of Jacque's reading from her brand new memoir, MAP OF THE HEART: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Finding the Way Home . I’ll send a reminder soon. ___ For updates about Martha’s forthcomi

When THE FALCON, THE WOLF AND THE HUMMINGB , the story of two female warriors in precolonial Connecticut, was first published, I ran a Facebook ad. A number of indigenous people commented, wondering if I was Native American, and if not, whether I made the same mistake a lot of non-Native American people do, that indigenous tribes were/are more or less all the same. I’m not indigenous, and I did not make that mistake for two reasons. My research illuminated how different each

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While doing research for my next book, I found an article by the Los Angeles Urban League, “Remembering Onie B. Granville, Founder of...

Buy NOW! Almost every week I get a letter like the one above from someone who’s read BLISS ROAD , , my memoir about being the daughter...

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Buy NOW! When I was at a writing conference last March, I went to a panel about the importance of poetry in times of political and social...

When I was a kid, there was no Pride Month, much less a day dedicated to gay members of the autistic community. Autism itself was not...

by Nina B. Lichtenstein Buy NOW! I’ve never read a memoir with a more unique and organic structure than BODY: MY LIFE IN PARTS . The...

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AWP 2025 I’m really looking forward to seeing my fellow Vine Leaves Press authors and other friends at this year’s Association of...

If you love to read books about experiences you’ve never had in places you’ve never been, and you know someone who writes, or would like...

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...

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...

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

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