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Posted on May 15, 2013
Riley knew Grandma was dead because she was smiling, Grandma never smiled when she was alive…
A new middle grade novel by Jacci Turner, author of The Birthright Series, Bending Willow takes readers on a journey in search of a dad. The story: When Riley...
Posted on May 3, 2013
My brother is an electrical engineer for a company that specializes in listening for the echoes of explosions. They make a big noise, sound waves travel into the earth, are reflected by various layers, and faint echoes travel back to an array of geophones on the...
Posted on Mar 21, 2013
Book One of the Six Kingdom series, The Shadow of His Wings launches the reader into Bruce Fergusson’s world of heroes, love, loathing, betrayal and victory. Orson Scott Card said of this book, “In each chapter, Fergusson gives us more life than most writers...
Posted on Feb 28, 2013
Jennifer Doneske has been in love with painting in pixels since she got her hands on her first desktop computer at age ten (on a 640 x 480 screen, using only 16 colors!). She has worked as a graphic designer for ten years and currently serves as the senior graphic...
Posted on Feb 21, 2013
Listen in as book cover artist and fiction writer develop a fantasy cover.
By Judith Harlan.
We work with several terrific artists and lots of talented writers, and one of the most fascinating aspects of publishing for me is the design and creation of the book cover....
Posted on Jan 15, 2013
By RJ Bucchianeri.
When time means nothing, and wishes rule, watch out!
The quest for a magical watch lures Nicholas and his father into the land of a cruel King and his brave, bumbling knights. Will naughty wood elves, wily wizards, and giant amphibians put an end...
Posted on Jan 12, 2013
Fortunately, readers are as perceptive as baseball fans.
What’s up with baseball owners, professional players, and sports agents? Can’t they see their commercial value eroding because so many amateurs are flooding the game? Pave over that sandlot!
Worse, vendors...
Posted on Jan 8, 2013
by Allison Morris.
Are you a book person, or an e-reader? Here’s some good news: you don’t have to pick.
Reading differs situationally, and we’re lucky to have several mediums through which we can now buy and read books. While e-readers and e-books...
Posted on Jan 7, 2013
It seems so simple: Something interesting and noteworthy happens to you, you have gained wisdom and insights from it, and you decide to tell your story to the world. It’s your story, right? You’re allowed.
Well…sort of.
We all know that memoir can be...
Posted on Jan 5, 2013
Books of Adventure for Kids and YA Readers
Under the pen name of R.J., Robert Bucchianeri writes the adventures of Django Jagger and the occasional wildly fantastical tale — all of which are delights and fun to read. In them, Bucchianeri puts his thriller and...