Overbooked

Since beginning this blog in March 2018, I’ve often found there isn’t a clear way to classify many books. Some books cross genres. Others have multiple themes. If you’re a regular reader, you know I love books about books or bookstores or libraries and have included many in earlier columns [...]

Guest blog by Rebecca D’Harlingue  Historical fiction authors are often asked whether the events in their book really happened. The answer to that question can range from, a lot of it did happen, to, I have imagined what might happen within that time and place. Readers will usually accept either [...]

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 [...]