INTERVIEW: With Children’s Book Author, by Lisa Jacovsky Plus Giveaway!
Today we welcome children's book author, Lisa Jacovsky!
What drives your story forward in your books the most, the characters or the plot, or do you feel they are intertwined?
I feel like Emma...
GUEST BLOG: Facts Are Important, But Fiction Always Wins by Susanne Dunlap Plus Giveaway!
There’s an ongoing debate in the historical novelist community about what liberties authors can take with history, where it’s all right to invent things for the sake of the story, and what...
GUEST BLOG: When Dreams Give You Life by Annabelle McCormack Plus Giveaway!
Most kids play pretend. It’s the nature of childhood. We imagine we’re in different roles, with different names, different personas. Or we grab an ordinary toy and make it something extraordinary in...
GUEST BLOG: The Benefit to Me of National Novel Writing Month by Debra Sennefelder Plus Giveaway!
One of the aspects of being an author who writes on spec is that it plays to one of my weaknesses, perhaps to my greatest weakness—self-discipline. I can set writing goals, and...
GUEST BLOG: Going After Your Dreams or Fulfilling Your Dreams and Not Someone Else’s? by Margaret Porter Plus Giveaway!
The Limits of Limelight, the title of my fourteenth novel, illuminates the inherent conflict its protagonist, the story’s real-life inspiration, must contend with.
In July of 1931, Ginger Rogers and her mother Lela...
BOOK BLAST: THE GIRL IN THE ’67 BEETLE by Linda Lenhoff Plus Giveaway!
Publication Date: September 26, 2021
The art director of Kids Press, Amy Shepherd has been assigned to reinvent the story of Goldilocks, and she finds her own life reflecting a similar tale. Will...
GUEST BLOG: Local History–Navy Hill Explosion by Wes Verde Plus Giveaway!
New Jersey has a reputation for many things. They filmed The Sopranos here. We’re home to Princeton University. The taxes are high, but the beaches are decent. What is less well known...
GUEST BLOG: Why ‘Vintage Kitchen Mysteries’? by Victoria Hamilton Plus Giveaway!
In A Calculated Whisk, my tenth Vintage Kitchen Mystery, I have my heroine looking over a collection of vintage kitchen whisks, preparing to mount an exhibit. Jaymie Leighton Müller not only...
BOOK BLAST: BEAUTIFUL EYES by Gabbi Black Plus Giveaway!
In Their Eyes: Book 2
Publication Date: September 13, 2021
Entrepreneur Smith MacLean is obsessed with Alessandra Soriano, a woman he met briefly who disappeared six months ago. After a shocking reunion at Club...
GUEST BLOG: 3 Things I Learned After Getting Published by Brianne Moore Plus Giveaway!
For many of us writers, getting published is the ultimate endgame. We work so hard to get to that point, we don’t really think about what comes after that. But post-publication is...
GUEST BLOG: A Little Bit About My Career by Heather Haven Plus Giveaway!
Hi Everyone. I wanted to tell you a little bit about my career as a writer and the Alvarez Family Murder Mysteries. In my twenties and thirties, I spent my time in...
GUEST BLOG: My Writing Journey by Lorie Lewis Ham Plus Giveaway!
I think the question that writers get the most is, “How did you become a writer?” That and “Will you take a look at my manuscript?”
It may sound cliché, but I feel...
