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Interview With YA Author Jefferson Shupe
I had the pleasure of interviewing author Jefferson Shupe for my uniting Americans blog, Vigilant Positivity. He wrote THE BATHWATER...
marthaengber
Jan 272 min read
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Happy Book Birthday THE WIND THIEF!
Buy NOW! I started writing THE WIND THIEF before the changing climate started bringing us the more extreme weather phenomenons of our...
marthaengber
Jan 221 min read
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Happy MLK Day!
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...
marthaengber
Jan 201 min read
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Love Reading/Watching Westerns? San Juan Bautista is Your Go-to!
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...
marthaengber
Jan 151 min read
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Happy Birthday "Growing Great Characters"!
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...
marthaengber
Jan 131 min read
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Immigration Essay Aired on NPR Station
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...
marthaengber
Jan 101 min read
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Book Review: "Tick... Tick... Tick..."
by Steve Zettler Available to preorder! Steve Zettler ’s forthcoming thriller. TICK... TICK... TICK ( Vine Leaves Press , March 25,...
marthaengber
Jan 61 min read
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"Falcon" Research: Bird Calls and Birdsong
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...
marthaengber
Jan 61 min read
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New Year: Service Projects for 2025
Another year coming, and so many great ways to help the world! I’m throwing my energy into helping fellow authors succeed with their...
marthaengber
Dec 30, 20241 min read
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Happy Holidays 2024!
I loved meeting so many of you this year, and keeping up with those of you whom I’ve known for a long time now. Whatever your...
marthaengber
Dec 25, 20241 min read
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Mary Donahue Means Winter
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...
marthaengber
Dec 23, 20241 min read
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New Year's Reading List 2025
Happy New Year to all of you! Here’s what’s on my reading list (the links are through Bookshop.org , so purchases benefit independent...
marthaengber
Dec 19, 20241 min read
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Who's the Woman Warrior in Your Life?
Who’s the woman warrior in your life? That’s the question I asked the women who participated in the American Historical Novels Facebook...
marthaengber
Dec 16, 20241 min read
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World Happiness Report
Buy NOW! Happiness, let alone bliss, is definitely a complex experience that can be tricky to attain. Just check the 2024 World...
marthaengber
Dec 16, 20242 min read
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Book Review: "Flirting With Extinction"
by Joanna Kadish Joanna Kadish writes beautifully about the brutal truths of living a thousand lives in a single lifetime in FLIRTING...
marthaengber
Dec 3, 20241 min read
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Happy Thanksgiving 2024!
If you’ve lost family due to differences, I hope you reconnect with the similarities between you and reclaim the love they offer. And...
marthaengber
Nov 28, 20241 min read
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#PositivityMovement: Why We Need Each Other
When writing BLISS ROAD , I came to understand how hard achieving happiness can be, not only for me, but for everyone. After the...
marthaengber
Nov 20, 20241 min read
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Dec. 7 American Historical Novel Giveaway!
Please join me and so many other fantastic fellow historical fiction writers for this fun holiday event! I’ll be online from 11 - 2 p.m....
marthaengber
Nov 18, 20241 min read
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Writing to Music: WINTER LIGHT playlist
Buy NOW! Mary Donahue, the 15-year-old protagonist of my novel, WINTER LIGHT, which takes place in 1978-79 Chicago, listens to a lot of...
marthaengber
Nov 11, 20241 min read
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Book Review: "Disconnected"
By Eleanor Vincent Reading Eleanor Vincent’s just-released memoir DISCONNECTED: PORTRAIT OF A NEURODIVERSE MARRIAGE , about navigating...
marthaengber
Nov 9, 20242 min read
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