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Guest Post: Charting your course in the new world of publishing by Robert Manni

Guest Post: Charting your course in the new world of publishing by Robert Manni

If you're new here, why not subscribe to our email updates or follow us on Facebook? You can also add us to your Google Reader. Thanks for visiting! Todays guest post is by Robert Manni, author of The Guys Guys Guide to Love Think you've got what it takes to succeed in the new world of publishing? Writing a novel has to be more than...

Guest Post and Excerpt: Heather Gudenkauf, author of One Breath Away

Guest Post and Excerpt: Heather Gudenkauf, author of One Breath Away

I was recently sent a copy of Heather Gudenkaufs'One Breath Away'to review, and was lucky enough to be asked to be a part of Heathers promotional blog tour. My review will follow later today, but in the meantime, you can learn a little more about the book from the excerpt and guest post below. In the midst of a sudden spring snowstorm, an...

Guest post: Wendy Wax, author of Ocean Beach

Guest post: Wendy Wax, author of Ocean Beach

Born and raised in Florida, best-selling author Wendy Wax is no stranger to Miami, but hadn't visited there for years when she began researching her recently released novel'Ocean Beach. Today Wendy chats with us about the research she undertook when writing this novel, a followup to her hugely successful'Ten Beach Road, and on her thoughts about the book...

Guest post and excerpt: An American Family by Peter Lefcourt

Guest post and excerpt: An American Family by Peter Lefcourt

I was recently sent a copy of Peter Lefcourts An American Family to review, and was lucky enough to be asked to be a part of Peters blog tour to promote the book. My review will follow later today, but in the meantime, you can learn a little more about the book from the excerpt and guest post below. 'Excerpt from An American Family After working...

Excerpt and Guest Post: Diane Chamberlain, author of The Good Father

Excerpt and Guest Post: Diane Chamberlain, author of The Good Father

With more than twenty novels under her belt, Diane Chamberlain seems as though shes spent her entire working life as an author. However, this isnt actually the case: for many years Dianes focus was on social work, completing her postgraduate studies in the field and going on to work as a hospital social worker before beginning a private...

Guest Post: Writing for Boys and Girls by Sue Bursztynski

Guest Post: Writing for Boys and Girls by Sue Bursztynski

Todays guest post is kindly provided by author and teacher-librarian'Sue Bursztynski These days there seems to be more division between boys and girls fiction, at least in the YA category, than when I was growing up or even only a few years ago. Think about books such as John Marsdens Tomorrow series, which had a huge fandom of...