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A Mother’s Day Chat with Janet Benton, Author of Lilli de Jong

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As difficult as mothering is today, we take for granted how far along we have come. Can you imagine being a single mother in 1883 Philadelphia society? Written as a series of journal entries, in which the title... Read More...

When the Person is the Message by Tucker Lieberman

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Most characters deliver messages through their words and actions, but some characters deliver messages through their very being. For years, I was curious about how castrated men were described in literature ... Read More...

An Interview with Tucker Lieberman about his latest book, Bad Fire: A Memoir of Disruption

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Imagine being thirteen years old, and being called up at your Bat Mitzvah, summoned to recite the blessings before and after the Torah reading. For many Jewish teenagers, this coming of age ritual ceremony mark... Read More...

An Interview with Kim Hooper, Author of Cherry Blossoms

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Can someone truly abandon their will to survive? And if they do, how does ordinary life test that will? From the author of the critically-acclaimed debut novel People Who Knew Me comes the story of thirty-four-... Read More...

Ebook-only Publishing Platform for Short Books: An Interview with Industry Game-Changer Brooke Warner

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Classic novels can be intimidating. Tomes like Charlotte Brontë's 600-page Jane Eyre or even the source material for all of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones collection may not always be what appeals to you.... Read More...

An Interview with the author Sarahlyn Bruck         

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An Interview with the author Sarahlyn Bruck                       If you are, like so many of us, obsessed with a good book and home design shows, well, then Sarahlyn Bruck’s Designer You just may b... Read More...

An Interview with M.J. Rose, founder of AuthorBuzz.com

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In 1998, when Google was barely a technological zygote, an aspiring author was having a difficult time selling two of her novels, not because publishers were not really excited about them, but because they were... Read More...

Harriet Levin’s My Oceanography reviewed by L. Shapley Bassen

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What do you know about Modernism? The Process Art Movement? How do you feel about Modern Art? You don’t have to answer to see that MY OCEANOGRAPHY is a collection of excellent poems, but it helps to know someth... Read More...

Antigone Books: Iconic Feminist Bookstore’s New Chapter

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As a feminist, and lover of books, I have always been drawn to iconic feminist bookstores. Bookstores, Antigone Books especially, are all on my bucket list to visit, but since I am a long way from Tucson, I wa... Read More...

Author Interview with Two Times Platinum Author, Lloyd Zane Remick

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What do you get when you cross a hard-working, driven and successful lawyer who has the discipline and commitment to also write? In this case, not your usual story of a crusading lawyer trying to prove his clie... Read More...
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