Writers are always looking for places to get their book reviewed, right? Well, here’s a source you might want to check out. Enjoy this interview. How did your blog get started? What was the thing that made you think, “It’s time to do this”? I first learned how to write reviews in the “professional” sense [...]
Reviewed by Debbie Archer
As a blogger, I get asked to review books quite a lot from authors and publishers. I enjoy doing it most of the time, but every once in a blue moon I come across a book I really don’t like. What then?
Did you ever (as a writer) read a book and then feel depressed that you’ll never be as good a writer? LOL! That’s the feeling I always get when I read Jenny B. Jones’ writing. She is so good, and I hope one day my books affect people the way her books do me.
Remember Michelle Moran? We interviewed her a while back, when she had just released her book, Cleopatra’s Daughter: A Novel. So many of you wrote that you loved that book, and I’m about to tell you why it’s important to get to know writers you like reading.
I had so many people recommend The Paris Wife: A Novel to me, and now I know why. Wow! It was great. I really enjoy reading about writers, and this one is like going through a time machine back to the early days of Hemingway’s career.
Review submitted by Carol M. Upton
I’ve read a lot of Tudor fiction books but haven’t so far come across one where Bessie Blount was the central character. I enjoyed Diane Haeger’s book about Henry VIII’s sister Mary, The Secret Bride: In The Court of Henry VIII, and so I was anxious to see how she pulled off a story about [...]
by Irene Watson
How’s your week been, writers? Mine started off with a lovely review for my latest poetry book, New and Selected Poems. The review is from fellow writer Tel Asiado, who runs a wonderful set of blogs, including Inspired Pen. The site offers good insight for writers, so I encourage you to check it. As if [...]
