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I’m grateful every day for the people who write about and promote ideas that are ultimately positive for our society and world, but are...

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...

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

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Another year coming, and so many great ways to help the world! I’m throwing my energy into helping fellow authors succeed with their...

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...

Who’s the woman warrior in your life? That’s the question I asked the women who participated in the American Historical Novels Facebook...

By Eleanor Vincent Reading Eleanor Vincent’s just-released memoir DISCONNECTED: PORTRAIT OF A NEURODIVERSE MARRIAGE , about navigating...

When I went to journalism school, the maxim was, “Question everything.” I still follow that rule, not only when writing, but when reading...

A fan of poetry, I wanted to feature the work of Ogbonna Osita Daniel , a young poet who lives in Nigeria and writes under the psyeudonym...

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...

Buy NOW! It’s easy to blame others. It’s harder to look at what went wrong and find ways to repair the damage and move on. The former...

I had the pleasure of attending a book talk here in CA where Jen Lang (left) spoke beautifully about her newest flash memoir, LANDED: A...

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

by Ann S. Epstein As a reader with both biological and chosen sisters, I’m a sucker for stories about sisterhood. But what I didn’t...

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...