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Kris Jansma Reveals How “Genius” Authors are Just Like Us in his New Book–Revisionaries

Tracey Palmer / October 8, 2024 / 1 comment

Feeling defeated by rejections from agents and/or editors? Feeling stuck with your writing, wondering if you’re just not good enough? You need to pick up a copy of Revisionaries: What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain…

Meet Susan R. Greenway, Debut Author of the Middle Grade Novel, Elephant Touch

Karen Wilfrid / October 1, 2024 / no comments

Time and again, animals have shown humans how our hardships can deepen our connections with others, rather than leading us to withdraw into ourselves. In Susan R. Greenway’s debut middle grade novel, Elephant Touch, Quinn visits an elephant sanctuary in…

In her debut novel, MK Pagano turns up the heat on mystery and teen romance

Cara Wood / July 16, 2024 / no comments

Two murders, one year apart leaves 18-year old Addie Blackwood out of suspects for who is responsible for ending her prodigy sister’s life. GIRLS WHO BURN launches today and is a summertime scorcher full of young love and teen anger….

John Copenhaver Discusses his new McCarthy-Era Mystery, Hall of Mirrors

Carla Miriam Levy / June 11, 2024 / 1 comment

Set in post-World-War-II Washington D.C., during the McCarthy era and the Lavender Scare, John Copenhaver’s  Hall of Mirrors, is a fast-paced mystery that tells the story of a young lesbian couple, Judy Nightingale and Philippa Watson, whose passion for each…

Meet Shi Naseer, Author of The Cry of the Silkworm

Madeleine Hall / June 5, 2024 / 1 comment

Shi Naseer’s debut novel, The Cry of the Silkworm, is a spellbinding coming-of-age and revenge story about a young woman grappling with the trauma and loss she endured growing up under China’s one-child policy, in a small rural village where…

Des Hall on the Darker Side of Jamaica, Story Structure, and his Second YA Novel, Better Must Come

Tracey Palmer / June 4, 2024 / no comments

Desmond Hall’s second novel, Better Must Come, is a gritty, action-packed, YA thriller that reveals the darker side of sunny Jamaica and how a tragedy and missing drug money entangle the lives of two teens who desperately want to change…

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