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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 41 min read
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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
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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
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Book Review: "Landed: A Yogi's Memoir in Pieces and Poses"
by Jennifer Lang I love yoga, I love stories of the heart and I love hearing about the fascinating, yet complicated paths people take to...
marthaengber
Sep 29, 20242 min read
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Book Review: "Kyd's Game"
by Marc Rosenberg Marc Rosenberg’s KYD'S GAME is everything an exciting, fast-paced thriller should be: meticulous regarding details and...
marthaengber
Jul 30, 20241 min read
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Great Characters and Their Defining Detail
Buy NOW! When I wrote GROWING GREAT CHARACTERS, I had to think hard about how I and other writers could quickly convey to readers how a...
marthaengber
May 13, 20241 min read
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Spicy VLP SpillIt! Essay About the Privileged
NOTE: The following essay was published recently by Vine Leaves Press. You can subscribe to receive the monthly essays, or submit essays...
marthaengber
May 7, 20245 min read
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Book Review: "One Tuesday, Early"
by Annalisa Crawford I’ve read a number of books by Annalisa Crawford, and can’t get over how well she infuses her stories with wisps of...
marthaengber
Apr 2, 20242 min read
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Book Review: "Houdini's Last Handcuffs"
by Charlie and Cheryl Young HOUDINI'S LAST HANDCUFFS is a masterful ghost story for adults! Rather than terrify, however, this mystical...
marthaengber
Mar 25, 20242 min read
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International Voices in Creative Nonfiction Contest
Please pass this post on to your writer friends! Vine Leaves Press International Voices in Creative Nonfiction Contest First prize: $1000...
marthaengber
Mar 13, 20241 min read
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Meetup With Author Jennifer Lang
Martha Engber and Jennifer Lang What?! A second Vine Leaves Press fellow author meetup in less than a month? Yup! This time I met up with...
marthaengber
Sep 23, 20231 min read
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Book Review: "For You I Would Make an Exception"
by Steven Belletto This a wild — and wildly compassionate — book about a youngish man who journeys to find the teen daughter he didn’t...
marthaengber
Sep 11, 20232 min read
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Book Review: "Death and Other Survival Strategies"
by Carolyn R. Russell One of my favorite feelings is that of the Octobers of my youth, the witchy time before Halloween when leaves fall...
marthaengber
Sep 5, 20231 min read
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A VLP Author Meetup!
Order BLISS ROAD! Check it out! Two @VineLeavesPress authors together! @Carolyn R. Russell joined me @Tatnuck Bookseller in Westborough,...
marthaengber
Aug 20, 20231 min read
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Thanks Cheshire Library!
Order NOW! Thanks @Kristy Crisler and @Cheshire Library for hosting my BLISS ROAD book reading and signing. And to the fab crowd who...
marthaengber
Aug 18, 20231 min read
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Book Review: "A Hard Silence"
by Melanie Brooks Silence as the result of shame and grief can brutalize a family. Such was the case for Melanie Brooks and her siblings...
marthaengber
Aug 11, 20231 min read
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Happy Book Birthday, BLISS ROAD!
Order BLISS ROAD now! Drum roll, please…. BLISS ROAD is now out in the world! Thanks to all of my advance readers and reviewers who’ve...
marthaengber
Jun 6, 20231 min read
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Autism Awareness Month Bliss
Did you know an estimated 1 in 20 people has a neurodiverse condition? Did you know there are dozens of neurodiverse conditions besides...
marthaengber
Mar 28, 20231 min read
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Preorder BLISS ROAD!
The time has come to preorder BLISS ROAD! If you’re thinking of ordering, do so now. The higher the preorders, the better the book will...
marthaengber
Mar 23, 20231 min read
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Public Libraries: What Do They Mean to You?
Besides public schools, the public library system is the most important institution in my life, and I’d argue both are the underpinnings...
marthaengber
Mar 12, 20232 min read
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