The leaves that fell in September |
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Juan Felipe Herrera once said ... |
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When the poem throttles your innards, that’s when you got to hit the paper and arpeggio the keys—it’s up to you.
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Emilie-Noelle Provost |
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Finalist
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Emilie-Noelle Provost's The River Is Everywhere was recently named as a finalist in American Book Fest's Coming of Age category.
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Elaine Del Valle once said ... |
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I wish I had this book when I was a kid--a book on a shelf that came from someone of this background and made me feel that my voice was relevant.
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Julian Randall once said ... |
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...sometimes we are from where we were least dead and not where we were born.
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Alan Humm |
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Recent Diary Entries
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"What would happen if I did nothing but write? If I had to make a living at it, how would that affect the way I did it?" Alan Humm ponders in one of his recent blog posts. Read his latest posts here, here, and here.
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Carolyn R. Russell |
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Switchback
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"The sacrifice she was about to make would be well worth it. Just one lost week, and she’d be able to support herself and the baby no one knew about." Carolyn R. Russell's "Switchback" was recently published in Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag.
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Cathy Shields |
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Child. Craft.
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"I was in deep denial for years, determined to find what I believed would be a 'cure' for my daughter." Cathy Shields wrote about caring for her daughter, Jessica, her forthcoming memoir The Shape of Normal..., and more in an essay recently published by the Washington Independent Review of Books.
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Gabby Rivera once said ... |
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I fall asleep with that book in my arms because words protect hearts and I've got this ache in my chest that won't go away.
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Apple Gidley's Finding Serenissima will be published in March 2025.
Steve Zettler's Tick, Tick, Tock! will be published in March 2025.
Elaina Battista-Parsons's Chomp, Press, Pull will be published in April 2025.
Janet Clare's True Home will be published in May 2025.
Ian Rogers's Carcrash Parker and the Haven of Larpers will be published in July 2025.
Alan Humm's My Father is Calling the Neighbors Names will be published in September 2025.
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Amie McCracken
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"Break down the daunting editing process into manageable steps to truly celebrate your progress and quantify how much further you need to go," Amie McCracken advises during a recent conversation with the Ingenium Books Podcast, where they discussed topics such as outlining, analyzing, and editing drafts. Listen to the interview here.
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Jennifer Lang
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"Were I to add up how many hours I’ve spent on a mat, it would probably be in the thousands. All to say, I don’t know who I’d be without it." Jennifer Lang discusses her long-term yoga practice, her recent memoir, her forthcoming memoir, and more in a recent interview with Roz Morris.
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Melanie Brooks
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"I’m not writing to expose that secret. That part of the story was already known. I wasn’t opening a whole new Pandora’s box of information." Melanie Brooks discusses her father's health crisis and how it affected her family, her MFA experience, publishing her books, and more in an interview with Lara Lillibridge for Hippocampus Magazine. She was also recently interviewed by Suzanne Strempek Shea for Brevity.
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Mike Maggio
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When asked "'Why poetry and literary fiction? Did you choose it, or did it choose you?'" by Annalisa Crawford, Mike Maggio answered, "I’m not sure. I think both of them chose me. Back in high school, I wanted to be a novelist but, for some reason which I can’t remember, I started writing poetry. Now, I will say that I didn’t know what I was doing at the time." Check out their conversation here.
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Charlotte Stuart
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"Stuart paces the plot well, giving time for the characters to grow and complete their story arcs. I can't emphasize enough how much I enjoyed Raven's Grave. If you love to read sleuth murder mysteries, you won't go wrong with this one," Pikasho Deka praises Charlotte Stuart's Raven's Grave in their Readers' Favorite review.
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Martha Engber
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“Every family, and every single person, has something go wrong in their lives. If we want to be happier and create better relationships with our families and friends, we need to take an active role by listening, learning, asking for help and practicing self-kindness,” Martha Engber advises in a recent story written by Peter Prohaska for The Cheshire Herald.
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Elizabeth George Speare once said ... |
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After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth...
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by Steven Belletto |
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For You I Would Make an Exception
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Will Sorley, a native Californian, is barely surviving his days teaching college in rural Pennsylvania when he receives an email from a teenage girl in Kenya claiming to be his long-lost daughter.
This explosive note leads to a trip halfway around the globe to find this young woman and uncover more about her enigmatic mother, while trying to stay connected to his new girlfriend.
Swerving from the comic to the tragic, For You I Would Make an Exception follows Will from Pennsylvania to Kenya, San Francisco to India as his life expands in ways he never imagined.
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by Steve Zettler |
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Two for the Money
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What happens when millions in cold cash evaporates into thin air? And the only people aware of its disappearance are a collection of misfits, bunglers and crooked CIA agents? The one person on earth who knows exactly where that cash is located is a legless, ex-Navy SEAL, confined to a wheelchair.
It’s an icy Christmas Day in Philadelphia, City of Brotherly Love. Sam Christie has come to South Philly to visit the grave of a former Secret Service Agent, Pete Macaluso. Drive into town, place some flowers on Pete’s grave, and head home – piece of cake…
Not so fast; unbeknownst to Sam, he’s walking straight into a sinister trap; a trap that will take him to the exact spot where the Americas meet, and pit him against ruthless mercenaries, an unrelenting cop, and rogue CIA agents.
“It’s Panama, Sam… There are no rules.”
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by Melanie Brooks |
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A Hard Silence
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In the mid 1980s, Canada's worst public health disaster was unfolding. Catastrophic mismanagement of the country's blood supply allowed contaminated blood to be knowingly distributed nationwide, infecting close to two thousand Canadians with HIV. Among them was Melanie Brooks's surgeon father who, after receiving a blood transfusion during open-heart surgery in 1985, learned he was HIV positive.
A Hard Silence is an intimate glimpse into Melanie's memories of coping with the tragedy of her father's illness and enduring the loneliness and isolation of not being able to speak. With candor and vulnerability, Melanie opens her grief wounds and brings her reader inside her journey, twenty years after her father died, to finally understand the consequences of her family's silence, to interrogate the roots of stigma and discrimination responsible for the ongoing secret-keeping, and to show how she's now learned to be authentic.
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by Charlotte Stuart |
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Raven's Grave
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A young boy dies during a midnight ceremony. A fish buyer and $75,000 goes missing. And a runaway becomes the object of an Alaskan wilderness search.
It is 1979 in a small native village in Alaska accessible only by boat. The local Tlingits continue to honor many traditions of the past, although increased contact with the outside world is accelerating a cultural shift. Caught in a slipstream of time, the village has become a curious blend of old and new.
When a young boy dies from a potion that was supposed to cure his limp, all the evidence points to the teenage shaman as the killer. It is up to Jonah St. Clair, the only police officer in the village, to solve the murder and, at the same time, find the missing fish buyer. To do so, he must use both his police skills and his knowledge of the local culture.
During his investigation, Jonah becomes prey and predator in a nighttime chase through the Alaskan wilderness and barely survives a rugged boat trip in dangerous waters. In the end, he not only apprehends a killer but discovers the bittersweet secret of the Raven’s Grave.
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