The Lantern, the latest offering by journalist-cum-novelist Deborah Lawrenson appeared on several must-read lists in the past year or so. Lawrenson spent her childhood in Kuwait, China, Belgium, Luxembourg and Singapore before settling in England, […]
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Erin Healy, editor-turned-novelist, knows fiction from the inside out. She spent many years as an award-winning fiction editor working with such renowned novelists as James Scott Bell, Melody Carlson, Colleen Coble, Brandilyn Collins, Traci DePree, L. B. Graham, Rene Gutteridge, Robin Lee Hatcher, Denise […]
Read PostI’m delighted to welcome acclaimed author Mary DeMuth to Story Matters today. Mary is a multi-faceted writer with several novels, a memoir, and many non-fiction books to her name. She’s also just released Around the […]
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The She Reads Book Club Selection for November. Man in the Blue Moon by Michael Morris. From the back cover: “He’s a gambler at best. A con artist at worst,” her aunt had said of […]
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Today I’m happy to welcome Andrea Palpant Dilley, a gifted writer (and fellow Whitworth alum :)) whose memoir Faith and Other Flat Tires tells the story of her crisis of faith, her walk away from […]
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Thanks to Julie Riddle, who writes for Whitworth Today, for permission to reprint today’s post. Andrea Palpant Dilley was raised in a Christian home, grew up in a Christian community, and attended a Christian college. […]
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Blackberry Winter by Sarah Jio, the She Reads Book Club October selection…and now a NY Times Bestseller. From the back cover: Seattle, 1933. Single mother Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son, Daniel, goodnight and departs […]
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Wallflower in Bloom by Claire Cook–a recent She Reads Book Club Selection. Deirdre Griffin has no life. Or rather she has one, but it belongs to her domineering family and her narcissistic celebrity New Age guru […]
Read PostLisa McKay’s memoir, Love At The Speed Of Email, is the story of old-fashioned courtship made possible by modern technology – the tale of two people separated by the Pacific Ocean who build a long distance relationship […]
Read PostAuthor Lisa McKay is a psychologist who specializes in stress, trauma and resilience. She currently lives in Laos. Her memoir, Love At The Speed Of Email, is her second book. Last week, she blogged about how her memoir […]
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