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Ebook-only Publishing Platform for Short Books? An Interview with Industry Game-Changer Brooke Warner

Classic novels can be intimidating. Tomes like Charlotte Brontë's 600-page Jane Eyre or even the source material for all of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones collection may not always be what appeals to you.... Read More...

An Interview with the author Sarahlyn Bruck

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Reviews

An Interview with the author Sarahlyn Bruck If you are, like so many of us, obsessed with a good book and home design shows, well, then Sarahlyn Bruck’s Designer You just may b... Read More...

An Interview with M.J. Rose, founder of AuthorBuzz.com

Maribel Garcia

Interviews

In 1998, when Google was barely a technological zygote, an aspiring author was having a difficult time selling two of her novels, not because publishers were not really excited about them, but because they were... Read More...

Lucky Broken Girl is about so much more than you think…An Interview with Ruth Behar

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Reviews

Lucky Broken Girl is the story of Ruthie Mizrahi and her family. They have recently emigrated from Castro’s Cuba to New York City. In this story, we encounter a young child who is finally beginning to gain con... Read More...

The Author’s Cut with Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, The Author's Cut

Rebecca Faye Smith Galli (Becky), author of Rethinking Possible: A Memoir of Resilience, is a weekly columnist who lives in Baltimore, Maryland and writes about love, loss, and healing. A Morehead-Cain Scholar ... Read More...

“Oh No They Didn’t”: Amerilexicophobia

Maribel Garcia

Reviews

AMERILEXICOPHOBIA: What’s that you ask? According to Lynne Murphy, an American linguistics professor, but longtime U.K. resident, it is an illness. It’s a form of distress that the British suffer from, an af... Read More...

Is the Key to Being Resilient, Keeping Hope Realistic? An Interview with Memoirist, Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

Maribel Garcia

Book Club Questions, Interviews, Memoir, on Writing, Reviews

In this memoir, we meet Becky Galli. We are first introduced to the author's life while she is safely ensconced in a pretty idyllic 1960s southern upbringing-complete with the pastor father and a stay-at-ho... Read More...

Is Memoir Vanity or An Act of Love? By Susan G. Weidener

Susan Weidener

Memoir, on Creativity, on Writing

Not everyone understands why some write their memoirs. They dismiss it as narcissistic vanity. Why write something so personal they ask? Who cares? Stories are my passion, so I am biased that writing memoir,... Read More...

Author Interview with Alicia DiFabio, author of Women Who Tri: A Reluctant Athlete’s Journey to the Heart of America’s Newest Obsession

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Reviews

Ever wonder when the marathon and triathlon craze started? You know what I’m talking about – that time before your Facebook posts were inundated with scores of women from all walks of life crossing the finishin... Read More...