by editor | Jul 9, 2023 | Articles, Author Events, Author Interviews, Written
Interviewed by Rachel Dehning What characters in the book are most similar to you or people you know? Is there anything in the story that you included based on your personal experiences? Some of the minor characters in the story, like Cassie and Xuan’s friends, Roxy,...
by editor | Apr 21, 2020 | Articles, Author Events
Resilience: “The ability of a substance or object to spring back easily into shape.” The Oxford English Dictionary could have been describing this year’s Bay Area Book Festival because that’s exactly what they’re doing. Although the beloved festival only announced its...
by editor | Oct 17, 2017 | Articles, Author Events, Writing Inspiration
By Jennifer Dwight Murder Under the Fig Tree, the second book in Kate Jessica Raphael‘s inestimable Palestine murder mystery series, has just been published by She Writes Press. Luan Strauss’s Laurel Book Store in downtown Oakland, CA, recently hosted a well-attended...
by editor | Jul 26, 2017 | Articles, Author Events, Book Marketing, Book Publishing, News + Features, Writing Inspiration, Writing Process
Barry Eisler, beloved and prodigious author of thrillers, celebrated the release of his thirteenth novel, Zero Sum, at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park, CA recently. During the introduction, author Keith Raffel aptly compared Eisler to John le Carré for his...
by editor | Jun 20, 2017 | Articles, Author Events, News + Features, Writing Process
By Jennifer Dwight Carolina De Robertis sat at her desk, overwhelmed by grief. President-elect Trump’s “victory” was only three days old. The probable ramifications of this dolorous event on all the hard-won civil rights gains of the past fifty years racked Carolina’s...
by editor | May 23, 2017 | Articles, Author Events, Book Marketing, News + Features
By Jennifer Dwight Book Passage in Marin County’s Corte Madera was the site for Amy S. Peele’s comic and compassionate introduction of her debut novel, Cut, to a crowd of nearly one hundred people last month. Standing-room-only is rare at any book launch, but Peele’s...
