Why This Male Reader Loves Strong Female Characters by Thaddeus Nowak, Author of Mother’s Curse

Please enjoy this guest post by Thaddeus Nowak, author of the exciting and beautifully written YA fantasy, Mother’s Curse, and its sequel, Daughter’s Justice. Then read on to learn how you can win huge prizes as part of this blog tour, including a Kindle Fire, $450 in Amazon gift cards, and 5 autographed copies of [...]

Writing a Memoir: It’s for the Reader – A Guest Post by Tim and Debbie Bishop

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 Writing a Memoir: It’s for the Reader By Tim Bishop With wife, Debbie, Tim co-authored Two Are Better: Midlife Newlyweds Bicycle Coast to Coast. Two Are Better officially launches to the book trade May 15, 2013. The couple blog at www.openroadpress.com. People who live private lives aren’t usually the type to trumpet their affairs. But, [...]

Guest Post – Third Willow is an Actual Place by Lenore Skomal

  Third Willow is an actual place that lives in all of us; a soft spot inside our hearts where an ancient yearning for the time in our lives before we grew up dwells. A time before hormones and maturity surreptitiously stole our clean and simple understanding of life. You recall that time—it was just [...]

The Thinness of the Veil between Reality and the Supernatural Guest Post by Veronica Lawson

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  The veil between reality and the supernatural is the width of a fly’s hair. I believe, as do the Native Americans, that everything has a soul. Everything on this earth, indeed, the whole universe, is connected. I believe there was a time when all human beings had the “gift” and communicated with the universe [...]

What’s the Point? Worthwhile Novels Tackle Real Issues by Sara Zaske

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What’s the point? Worthwhile novels tackle real issues  Not all writers have something to say. This may seem counter-intuitive. I mean why else write all those pages? But if you’ve ever known a “talker” who can go on and on without ever making a point, then you know there are plenty of writers like this [...]