Opening up and being vulnerable can be challenging, but it is also rewarding, and looking back, it has helped me connect with readers.

Chrissy Holm – 26 November 2023 Continue reading →

I remember as a kid I couldn’t wait for each Harry Potter book to come out. The one thing I did not like was having to wait such a long time for the next book to be published. I decided that if I ever became an author, I would speed up the process.

Miguel Angel Hernandez Jr – 24 November 2023 Continue reading →

Some of the many questions I wanted to ask in this book were; who are we when everything is stripped away, how do we find the courage to continue in the face of hopelessness, and what comes after our time here?

Sophia Conway – 22 November 2023 Continue reading →

Needing to write a memoir was one thing. But wanting to visit all the pain and shame and trauma, being naked and on display, and risking judgment and the possible disdain of readers—such wanting was hard to imagine. Would all that really be required, I wondered, in order to share my story with candor? It would. It did.

Terry Crylen – 20 November 2023 Continue reading →

To be quite honest, the writing of this entire book was a struggle. I opened up childhood wounds, and, in some cases, they were things I hadn’t shared in treatment or counseling. I began bleeding those stories onto the page. There were numerous triggers while writing the book and some nightmares reliving the abuse.

Maya Golden – 18 November 2023 Continue reading →

One of my favourite pieces of writing advice I ever heard was, ‘write the book you want to read,’ and that’s what I do. It’s one of the freedoms of being an independently published writer. I’m not having to please an editor or a publisher. The only compromise I have to find is between writing the book I want to read and the book that ticks every commercial box there is.

Stephen Mellor – 16 November 2023 Continue reading →

The book is a crime drama but it’s also really funny.

Lee Matthew Goldberg – 14 November 2023 Continue reading →

I got to thinking about how weird the phrase “death by misadventure” is, and what would happen if you changed it to “miss adventure” instead? Things pretty much spiraled from there until eventually, I had a book on my hands.

S.G. Tasz – 11 November 2023 Continue reading →

The book resonates with readers who like family stories, strong female protagonists, evocative settings, and a chance to learn some history they probably didn’t know.

Elisa M. Speranza – 9 November 2023 Continue reading →

The longer I was separated from my narcissistic family, the more I started seeing the world differently and realizing that the way I had been raised was not normal. Using the framework of urban fantasy, which I love, I wrote my main character coming to the same realizations I did and undergoing a similar transformation. 

Alison Levy – 8 November 2023 Continue reading →