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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 5
- 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 4, 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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marthaengber
- Apr 13, 2022
- 1 min
Happy Birthday, Mary Donahue!
Today is Mary Donahue’s birthday! That’s right, born April 13, 1963, Mary — the protagonist in Winter Light — turns 59 today. She’s...
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marthaengber
- Mar 30, 2022
- 2 min
Speculative Memoirs: Say What?!
My author friend, Annalisa Crawford, recently asked about the definition of “speculative memoirs.” I love such questions, because they...
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marthaengber
- Mar 28, 2022
- 1 min
To Cuss, or Not to Cuss...
CUSSING — OR NOT — MONDAY Do you think swearing is therapeutic? The question occurred to me when I was scrounging around for a Swahili...
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marthaengber
- Feb 23, 2022
- 1 min
Real Story Behind "Island of the Blue Dolphins"
When I was a kid, I loved reading Scott O’Dell’s 1960 Newbery Medal Award-winning novel Island of the Blue Dophins. Forever after, the...
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marthaengber
- Feb 15, 2022
- 1 min
Meeting Bill Hamilton
When on the island of Kauai in Hawaii recently, we met surf guru Bill Hamilton. He grew up in the 1950s in southern LA, where some of the...
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marthaengber
- Jan 26, 2022
- 2 min
New Author Photo Coming Soon
I knew my author photo was getting old, but loathed the idea of getting a new one. Though I’m somewhat photogenic for informal cell phone...
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marthaengber
- Jan 15, 2022
- 1 min
"The Onion": Humor on a Regular Basis
When my husband and I lived in Madison, WI, where he went to grad school, we started reading The Onion, a hilarious, free satirical...
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marthaengber
- Jan 6, 2022
- 1 min
12 Must-Read Books Based in Hawaii
All right, so the “must read” in this list featured on Bookglow — “all about books, all of the time” — is probably an exaggeration. But...
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marthaengber
- Jan 5, 2022
- 1 min
Movie Recommendations Featuring Hawaii
My friend recommended the movie, Soul Surfer based on the Kauai surfer girl who got her arm bitten off by a shark near the same area...
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