Everybody has a trick for entering their writing. They light candles, turn on Mozart, twirl three times counterclockwise. Me, I cook. This is new. And it isn’t the cooking, really, it’s the smell. Seems I need the simmering of onions…
In A Day Like This, Kelley McNeil writes about Annie, a mother and artist who seeks to unravel the truth of her past after she learns her beloved young daughter never existed. Annie Beyers has everything―a beautiful house, a loving…
Called “tautly plotted, expertly characterized, and genuinely riveting” by Publishers Weekly, Christine Nolfi’s The Passing Storm, tells the story of Rae Langdon, a 30-ish woman who struggles to work through a grief she never anticipated. With her father, Connor, she…
Juliette Fay is the award-winning, bestselling author of no less than six novels. Her latest, Catch Us When We Fall, is a poignant story filled with humor, compassion, and forgiveness. When the story begins, we meet Cass Macklin, determined to…
Set against the grim backdrop of Western Pennsylvania’s steel mills and coal mines, Tammy Pasterick’s debut novel, Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash, is a riveting story of immigrant grit in early-20th-century America. The twisty narrative explores love, longing,…
I’m a fan of James S.A. Corey’s The Expanse books (and TV series). I’m also a fan of borrowing writing craft techniques whenever I see them in action. You don’t have to like or even know about this fantastic space…