1978 was my freshman year at Lyons Township High School in La Grange, IL. I’ll admit I was pretty straight-laced, so I would have...

If you love to read books about experiences you’ve never had in places you’ve never been, and you know someone who writes, or would like...

by Cordelia Biddle LISTEN TO ME by Cordelia Frances Biddle is an amazingly inventive book! The author writes from the viewpoint of many...

When working on my memoir, BLISS ROAD ( Vine Leaves Press ), one of my early readers asked if narcissism and Autism Spectrum Disorder ...

I’m not Chinese, but for a long time now have lived in an area with a huge Chinese population and have loved the culture those in my...

I had the pleasure of interviewing author Jefferson Shupe for my uniting Americans blog, Vigilant Positivity. He wrote THE BATHWATER...

Buy NOW! I started writing THE WIND THIEF before the changing climate started bringing us the more extreme weather phenomenons of our...

I’m grateful every day for the people who write about and promote ideas that are ultimately positive for our society and world, but are...

I’ll bet some of you love Westerns, both books and movies. If so, the town of San Juan Bautista in CA along the old El Camino Real is a...

Buy NOW! Over the years I’ve had the great fortune to read books written by writers who’ve used my book to create fantastic characters...

Listen NOW! As a writer, I write about everything, both personal and not. Since the last election, I’ve been on a personal journey to...

by Steve Zettler Available to preorder! Steve Zettler ’s forthcoming thriller. TICK... TICK... TICK ( Vine Leaves Press , March 25,...

Buy NOW! While camping beside a lake, I once woke to the sound of a loon. It was one of the eeriest, most beautiful sounds I’ve ever...

Another year coming, and so many great ways to help the world! I’m throwing my energy into helping fellow authors succeed with their...

Buy NOW! Winter is most definitely the time to think about Mary Donahue, who, at the age of 15, is heading into the blizzard winter of...

Who’s the woman warrior in your life? That’s the question I asked the women who participated in the American Historical Novels Facebook...

By Eleanor Vincent Reading Eleanor Vincent’s just-released memoir DISCONNECTED: PORTRAIT OF A NEURODIVERSE MARRIAGE , about navigating...

When I went to journalism school, the maxim was, “Question everything.” I still follow that rule, not only when writing, but when reading...

A fan of poetry, I wanted to feature the work of Ogbonna Osita Daniel , a young poet who lives in Nigeria and writes under the psyeudonym...

Every time I go to the coast, I see these dudes sitting in this almost-dead tree, staring out at the ocean. They’re cormorants, but their...