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What Called Me to Write Not You, My Memoir by Megan Harris Madramootoo

What Called Me to Write Not You, My Memoir by Megan Harris Madramootoo

What Called Me to Write Not You, My Memoir Megan Harris Madramootoo I love writing and I love helping others. I worked with bone marrow transplant patients for almost 19 years as I took care of my children and finished college. Now I write and teach, and through those I am able to fulfill my […]

May 7, 2024 | By | Reply More
April: Reading With Rochelle Weinsten

April: Reading With Rochelle Weinsten

Hello Readers & Friends, No April fools here, only fabulous reads from some super-talented authors. Read on for my April wrap-up.  She’s Not Sorry, Mary Kubica, Audible A nurse fixates on a young patient which leads her on a path to secrets and self-destruction.  What to expect:  Kubica’s signature suspense with lots of twists and […]

May 1, 2024 | By | Reply More
On Writing THE TRANSLATOR by Harriet Crawley

On Writing THE TRANSLATOR by Harriet Crawley

I am no spring chicken. The reason I mention this is that I am sure there are many women who want to write, or who, like me, have written in the past, then left a long gap and now they wonder if they are too old. The short answer is no.  I was 68 years […]

April 26, 2024 | By | Reply More
Something Wonderful: The Ripple Effects of Publishing a Novel

Something Wonderful: The Ripple Effects of Publishing a Novel

Something Wonderful: The Ripple Effects of Publishing a Novel From the time I was a child, I’ve had a notebook in front of me and a pen in my hand. The first time I thought about publishing a novel was in high school when I wrote my first full-length story of about two-hundred pages. When […]

April 23, 2024 | By | Reply More
BEWARE THE TALL GRASS, by Ellen Birkett Morris EXCERPT

BEWARE THE TALL GRASS, by Ellen Birkett Morris EXCERPT

We are delighted to feature this excerpt from BEWARE THE TALL GRASS by Ellen Birkett Morris! BEWARE THE TALL GRASS Beware the Tall Grass weaves the stories of the Sloans, a modern family grappling with their young son Charlie’s troubling memories of a past life as a soldier in Vietnam, and Thomas Boone, a young man […]

April 22, 2024 | By | Reply More
Unsung Heroes and Heroines of the Home Front: Working in Air Raid Precautions by Susanna Bavin 

Unsung Heroes and Heroines of the Home Front: Working in Air Raid Precautions by Susanna Bavin 

Unsung Heroes and Heroines of the Home Front:  Working in Air Raid Precautions by Susanna Bavin  ‘Put that light out!’ Most of us instantly associate those words with life on the home front during the Second World War. Many of us probably picture Warden Hodges from Dad’s Army. Yes, the ARP wardens did patrol the […]

April 17, 2024 | By | Reply More
Laughing About it One Day By Courtney Deane

Laughing About it One Day By Courtney Deane

Laughing About it One Day  By Courtney Deane Ask most of today’s top comedians – Ricky Gervais, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock – and they’ll tell you no topic is off limits. That’s there’s no such thing as “you can’t say that” or “that’s not funny.” In fact, one could argue they’ve made entire careers (or […]

April 9, 2024 | By | Reply More
Today is Global Holistic Wealth Day! On Starting A Global Movement By Keisha Blair, Mother of Holistic Wealth

Today is Global Holistic Wealth Day! On Starting A Global Movement By Keisha Blair, Mother of Holistic Wealth

Today is Global Holistic Wealth Day! On Starting A Global Movement By Keisha Blair, Mother of Holistic Wealth By Keisha Blair There have been some poignant moments on my journey to building a global movement for holistic wealth – a journey that has already impacted the lives of over 50 million people. The journey started […]

April 9, 2024 | By | Reply More
Interview with Nancy Burke

Interview with Nancy Burke

Apprentice House Press will release Nancy Burke’s first collection of short stories,  Death Cleaning and Other Units of Measure, on May 1, 2024. This is Burke’s  fourth book and first short fiction collection.  Interview with author, Nancy Burke What inspired this collection? In August 2021, I read Hilma Wolitzer’s collection, Today a Woman Went Mad […]

April 7, 2024 | By | Reply More
Writing DAUGHTER OF A PROMISE

Writing DAUGHTER OF A PROMISE

Some people assume writing a third novel must be easier than writing the first, which is true to some degree only because one knows what to expect: that they are in for a long, winding, doubt-ridden journey. When I began drafting DAUGHTER OF A PROMISE I wasn’t sure what the challenges would be, only confident […]

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