Guest blog by Mary Camarillo A meme floated around Facebook recently, reminding us that we need to be okay with not being liked all the time. “You could be a whole ray of sunshine and people will still dislike you because they’re used to rain.” I feel that way about [...]
Guest Blog by Florence Reiss Kraut Back in October, when I launched my debut novel, How to Make a Life, I did not have any idea that one of the ways I would be sharing my book with libraries and on-line book clubs would be as an example of [...]
Guest Blog by Deborah K. Shepherd “Mothers don’t walk out on their children, no matter how loudly the siren song of a past love calls to them. Peter might need me, but my kids needed more,” muses Caro Tanner, the protagonist of my debut novel, So Happy Together. Caro is [...]
Guest blog by Gretchen Cherington I don’t know an author who hasn’t secretly dreamed of their book going viral. We sell a few books at our neighborhood bookstore and wake up to find hundreds were sold overnight by Amazon, then thousands. We’re fielding interview requests from Teri Gross, Dani Shapiro, [...]
Guest Blog by Corie Adjmi Some people don’t like short stories. I don’t get it. I love them. Why? Well, because they’re short. And they pack a punch in a way that differs from a novel. If a novel is a slow burn, a short story is a spark. I [...]
Guest Blog by Jill McCroskey Coupe In my novel Beginning with Cannonballs, two infant girls, Hanna and Gail, share a crib in Gail’s parents’ house, where Hanna’s mother is the live-in maid. This is in the 1940s in segregated Knoxville, Tennessee, where I grew up. Despite having to attend different [...]
As we approach the holiday season, with the end of 2020 in sight, many of us are holding the hope that 2021 will be a better year. This past year has been full of uncertainty, anxiety, isolation, loss, and grief – and one that we are happy to have come [...]
Guest blog by Valerie Taylor Do you remember the “Guess Your Weight” game at carnivals? I bet I can guess how old you are, or at least in what decade you were born, simply by your reaction to a new television commercial by Knix, a lingerie company targeting mature [...]
Guest blog by Mary Helen Sheriff When I was a child, I spent considerable time with my grandma Hootie on her balcony which overlooked Shore Drive in Virginia Beach. We’d count the RVs that passed by and daydream about renting one when I turned sixteen and taking a road trip [...]
Guest blog by Heidi McCrary As our New Normal continues, I relaxed on my sofa the other evening, and finally started reading the book-club favorite, Little Fires Everywhere. With a limited-series airing currently on Hulu, starring Kerry Washington and Reese Witherspoon, the timing seemed right to dive into the story [...]
