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Seven Holiday Culinary Cozy Mysteries Publication Date: October 1, 2021 Seven crime writers of color have teamed up for the second year running to offer you the gift of escape this holiday season. From...

As writers, if there’s one thing we’re used to, it’s various forms of rejection. Rejections from agents, editors, publishers, bad reviews, being excluded from lists—it happens to all of us. It can...

The Crown of Dreams: Book1 Publication Date: June 24, 2021 Unrest smolders in a galaxy where most citizens endure the oppressive society of the Northrite corporation. Run by six masked council members, the Northrite exploit...

My ideas for novels come from a variety of sources. I wrote The Foreign Language of Friends about the loneliness of living in the sprawled-out city of Houston, Texas. What She Knew grew out...

When I was researching for the first book in the Beach Reads series, Little Bookshop of Murder, I had already decided that Summer Merriweather would have arachnophobia. So I looked into it....

Publication Date: October 28, 2021 Jenny's life revolves around three very important things: being a mom, a wife, and a rancher; until one day, the unthinkable happens. Journey with Jenny as she faces some...

Publication Date: June 15, 2021 Funny short stories, ironic stories, amazing stories, animal stories, incredible stories, unusual stories, comical stories, humorous stories. Happy and feel-good stories to create funny conversation, humorous conversation, a...

A story, at its most basic, is about a character overcoming obstacles to reach a goal. The obstacles are what create tension. It makes us uncomfortable, but it also keeps things interesting....

Publication Date: July 21, 2020 The novel opens with aristocratic Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel pleading with the High Court of Naples to be beheaded instead of hanged like a criminal. One of the leading...

Publication Date: October 11, 2021 He’s a billionaire hiding a devastating diagnosis. She’ll do whatever it takes to help her sick, matchmaking mom. A freak accident throws them together, but will his big...

Publication Date: October 11, 2021 In 1794, Widowed Countess Eseld Trehearne seeks revenge for the brutal death of her female companion during a Paris riot. On her return to England, Eseld delves into...

Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), a brash 28-year-old professor at the University of Padua medical school, published a textbook of anatomy unlike any that had come before—revolutionary for its careful detail, exquisite illustrations, and...