And then right there, the character of Michelangelo D’Antoni emerged, almost full blown. He began to walk around our house from room to room, smiling and laughing a bit, and even accompanying my wife and I on our walks outside to catch a breath of fresh air. He seemed friendly and engaging, a decent fellow, with a lot on his mind. He also seemed to have a dark side. Once characters step inside your house, they almost become family and you begin to treat them as such. 

Tom Maremaa – 15 September 2024 Continue reading →

I write the books I want to read and just hope other people will want to read them too. One of the aims behind The Owlbear and the Omens was to write a reverse harem where the arrangement was necessitated by politics rather than used as a tool for erotica. 

Aengie Scevity – 13 September 2024 Continue reading →

I knew instinctively what to do, where to look in my journals, how to organize the story of my journey in a way that might help others find solace as well as providing them with some practical ideas for coping with altered circumstances.

Gwen Suesse – 10 September 2024 Continue reading →

The target readers for this collection were people over 65, nearing 65 and their children and friends. It was to begin a dialogue on what aging was about for one woman and could this be a kind of universal thinking? 

Jane Seskin – 8 September 2024 Continue reading →

The book series spawned from my desire to write about the human condition – including a lack of motivation, the unwelcome feeling of loneliness, the desire to do one’s best, and the nature of quid pro quo. 

Fish Nealman – 6 September 2024 Continue reading →

This is very much a figure skating book for figure skating readers. If you are a casual fan who tunes in to watch figure skating in the Olympics once every four years, this probably isn’t the book for you.

Ryan Stevens – 3 September 2024 Continue reading →

Ideas are everywhere around us, as long as you’re observant. Have you heard that before? Well, I’ve come to believe it’s true. I began writing this book with one idea—the theme of redemption and unpredictable repercussions of even the smallest choices. 

I.D. – 31 August 2024 Continue reading →

Every single sentence in this book is absolutely true. I sometimes say: why write fiction when real life is so varied and fascinating? 

Anne Abel – 28 August 2024 Continue reading →

After I read J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy, I realized as well that my stories about Appalachia served as a counterpoint to Vance’s memoir. Instead of his tough love story in which the survivor leaves the region, I’d written a series of stories in which the survivors stay put and make the best of what has happened to them. To be fair to J. D. Vance, however, my stories are generally set in the years before the opioid crisis hit the region.

Carl Parsons – 22 August 2024 Continue reading →

This book is purrfect for any cat lover! 

Sallie Cochren – 19 August 2024 Continue reading →