My reader is anyone exhausted by living at half past almost: someone who knows something is not working but keeps participating in it. This book is for the person who is finished collecting insight and ready to look at what their life keeps proving.
Allison Jacob – 14 November 2026 Continue reading
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I thought, wow, two totally different animals getting along, and enjoying one another. I thought, this would be a great lesson for children, that we don’t all look alike, we’re not all the same color, or the same size, but we can get along and celebrate our differences.
Janet Zappala – 13 November 2026 Continue reading
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Music, movies, a scene, a feeling, or even one small idea can start something much bigger in my head. Eventually, that imaginary world became The Unowned Saga.
Megan Whiteaker – 12 November 2026 Continue reading
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I remember deciding that I didn’t want other people’s opinions to dictate who I was anymore. I became more comfortable being myself, and in a way, I fell in love with who I was again.
That experience stayed with me.
Divine Onyejiuwa – 11 November 2026 Continue reading
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There are other documented cases of this happening. And it was that contemplation about how something like that happens, and the idea of wants and needs and manipulation between convict and visitor-turned-paramour, that got my mind churning.
Wendy M. Barnhart – 10 November 2026 Continue reading
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I hope readers come away understanding that what happened to us may always be part of our story, but it does not have to determine how the story ends.
Deborah Samuel – 9 November 2026 Continue reading
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A story about freedom has to leave room for the reader’s freedom, too. The difficult balance is allowing the questions to live through the characters, rather than having the characters explain what I want the reader to think.
Alex Newman – 8 November 2026 Continue reading
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I also discovered a rich history of multigenerational family businesses—and the idea of feuding sisters struggling to figure out the future of their family’s pearl farm was born.
Stacey Gordon – 6 November 2026 Continue reading
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For me, this story is really about the unexpected ways we can heal. Sometimes healing doesn’t arrive the way we imagine it will. Sometimes it shows up filthy, injured, and uninvited…and refuses to leave.
Cynthia Johnstone – 5 November 2026 Continue reading
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