Writers are Readers: Edwina Kiernan
Welcome back! Today we're chatting with historical fiction author Edwina Kiernan. This was my first time chatting with her, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Thanks for being here today. What was your favorite chapter book? What did you love about it? George’s Marvellous Medicine [...]
Sarah’s Choice by Pegg Thomas (book review)
Sarah Feight has her life planned with a loving husband, a promising new settlement, and big dreams to shape the future of trade on Pennsylvania’s frontier. An Indian attack at dawn changes everything. When he pulls his freight wagons into Fort Pitt, Leith McCully never dreams he’ll be conscripted into [...]
Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore (book review)
It’s New Year’s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics, or remain at home in Brooklyn to pursue her [...]
Writers are Readers: Sally Jo Pitts
People often ask about what and how I write but looking at myself as a reader for this blog has been a fun project. At Daddy’s Office by Robert Jay Misch was my favorite picture book as a child. In fact, I still have the book! I used to read [...]
Writers are Readers: Sarah Geringer
Inspiration come from everywhere. Fiction and nonfiction writers both find their inspiration in their genres, but they also get ideas from outside of where they write. That's true for Author Sarah Geringer, who writes short and long nonfiction but has found inspiration and entertainment in a variety of books and [...]