FALCON and Thunderstorms
Buy NOW! I love thunderstorms, which are defined by the National Weather Service as "A rain-bearing cloud that also produces lightning."...
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marthaengber
- Nov 17
- 1 min
Book Review: "The Shape of Normal"
by Cathy Shields My heart alternately broke and blossomed while reading Cathy’s Shields’ book, THE SHAPE OF NORMAL: MOTHERHOOD,...
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marthaengber
- Nov 13
- 1 min
Back in Time: Best of Historical Fiction
Order NOW! What book completely transported you back in time? For me it was Jonathan Frazier’s COLD MOUNTAIN, the 1997 National Book...
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marthaengber
- Nov 10
- 1 min
Not a "Lamb" of a Movie
I just saw — and loved! — the 2021 Icelandic movie set in current times that hinges on a very strange fable-like twist. I won’t...
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marthaengber
- Aug 31
- 1 min
Writing Historical Fiction and Cultural Appropriation
Read Reading and Writing Fiction Without Guilt: 4 thoughts about cultural appropriation (and how to avoid it) by Martha Engber, Women...
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marthaengber
- Aug 25
- 1 min
After the Launch! A Class for Writers
You know that sad feeling you get when you finish a really great book? Like all you want to do is hang out with the characters a little...
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marthaengber
- Jun 9
- 1 min
Art Calling! Podcast Interview about BLISS ROAD
ORDER BLISS ROAD NOW! Listen now to Episode 107! I started listening to Jaime Alejandro’s Arts Calling! podcast last year. He’s a...
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marthaengber
- Jun 6
- 1 min
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...
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marthaengber
- Jun 5
- 1 min
YOU Bliss!
Preorder BLISS ROAD now! While creating the compilation of graphics for this final 52nd — and last — post in the 52 Reasons to be...
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marthaengber
- May 28
- 1 min
Family Support Bliss
Preorder BLISS ROAD now! I think for a lot of writers, when they inform their families the next book will be a memoir that assesses...
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marthaengber
- May 10
- 1 min
"Faction" = "Fiction" + "Fact"
The normal definition of “faction” is a dissenting group among a larger group. But according to The Book Genre Dictionary, faction now...
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marthaengber
- Apr 6
- 1 min
How Self-Kindness Set My Creativity Free
I’m happy to say my essay, How Self-Kindness Set My Creativity Free, is featured in the most recent issue of Women Writers, Women’s...
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marthaengber
- Mar 4
- 1 min
Women's Day 23-Book Giveaway!
I'm one of three women born to a mother who was one of four girls. To say I come from a long line of strong, independent-thinking women...
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marthaengber
- Nov 23, 2022
- 1 min
Changing Language: The Diversity Style Guide
We live in a fast-changing world. It’s tough to keep up on what terms are acceptable and which have been thrown out as being offensive....
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marthaengber
- Nov 9, 2022
- 1 min
Book Review: "There There"
by Tommy Orange In honor of National Native American Heritage Month, I wanted to recommend Tommy Orange’s There There. A member of the...
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marthaengber
- Oct 5, 2022
- 2 min
Book Review: "Calling for a Blanket Dance"
by Oskar Hokea I get connected via social media to all kinds of fascinating people. A few years ago I started following the blog of Oskar...
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marthaengber
- Jun 15, 2022
- 1 min
Book Review: "Prepare for Departure"
I just finished Mark Chesnut’s Prepare for Departure, a travel writer’s humorous, warm memoir of journeying with his mother to the end of...
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marthaengber
- Jun 3, 2022
- 1 min
Grow YOUR Great Character and Plot! A Master Class
Back in the day, long before my first novel publication (The Wind Thief), I craved to teach at the San Francisco Writers Conference. A...
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marthaengber
- Apr 27, 2022
- 1 min
The Daddy Chronicles: A Memoir in Flash
A friend of mine, Jayne Martin, is a master of flash writing, which is the art of depicting an entire story from start to finish in 100...
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marthaengber
- Apr 20, 2022
- 1 min
Interesting Humans Podcast
Talk of war atrocities, scams and political shenanigans got you down? Have I got a podcast for you! Interesting Humans by Christain Ward...
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