Book Review: The Captain Takes a Wife by Doris Durbin
Sarah Franklin, a young teacher escaping an arranged marriage to a corrupt man, runs straight into the arms of Captain Harry Richardson as he prepares to board a train leaving Macon, Georgia, in 1875. She begs him to help her, and the captain soon finds himself in the midst of [...]
New Interview! Meet Janell Butler Wojtowicz
Here we go folks - it's 2017! Time to kick off the year with the much-anticipated new interview questions! First to take on the challenge is Janelle Butler Wojtowicz, a new author who's working on her second novel. Just how long did the first one take? Find out below! What [...]
Book Review: A Portrait of Emily Price by Katherine Reay
Emily Price—fix-it girl extraordinaire and would-be artist—finds herself in Atlanta, repairing objects damaged in a house fire. As she works to restore the home and dreams of one family, she strives to keep the pieces of her own life in perfect order and secure her own happy ending—a gallery show [...]
Goals! And Other Stuff for 2017
I’m still trying to figure out what happened to 2016. I had big plans in January – BIG plans! Then the summer hit, I took a temporary full-time job, and BAM! More than four months gone. That put a big dent in things. I’m planning to bang that dent out [...]
Scenes: The Building Blocks of Novels by James Callan
Pantser or plotter? It makes no difference. Books are daunting. Ninety to a hundred thousand words. Too much to grasp at once. But what I'm saying today is, forget that huge, monstrous book. Don't focus on the total book. Concentrate on a scene. Entire books have been written on scenes, [...]