I’ve long thought of award-winning author Daryl Gregory as a writer’s writer. He’s not only hilarious, inventive and a hugely talented prose writer, but a master of craft. Lift the hood on any of Gregory’s books and you’ll learn a…
In their enthralling debut historical novel Lightborne, Hesse Phillips brings to life the last dangerous days of famed Elizabethan playwright and poet, the outspoken and provocative Christopher Marlowe. In his time, and to this day, audiences and readers captivated by…
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…
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…
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…
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…