Patricia Santos Marcantonio has happy to announce the release of Trini’s Magic Kitchen, a story about learning the magic of cooking for people you love. Trini Sánchez’s mom hates to cook and they eat out so much that Trini considers school lunch as haute cuisine. Trini’s dad died when she was young, which was also…
Cat Writer Mollie Hunt’s new Crazy Cat Lady cozy mystery, Crafty Cat, is launching on National Cat Day, October 29th, 2024. Crafty Cat is the 11th in the series that features Lynley Cannon, a sixty-something cat shelter volunteer who finds more trouble than a cat in catnip, as well as many, many cats. In Crafty…
Without warning, disaster strikes. How does a grief-stricken young mother rebuild her life and rediscover joy? On a family vacation in Austria, Janice Jensen’s children played on the bank of a sleepy stream. Suddenly the water rose catastrophically. Miles upstream, a power company had released a raging torrent that rushed down and swept away her…
H.D. Duman’s newest novel, WolfScape, will go live at the end of this weekend on September 8th. It will also be featured in the New York Times, on Sunday, September 8th. It garnered a four star review with The US Review and Books. It will also be entered in the Eric Hostetter Awards. WolfScape will…
T.L Cooper has released her newest book of poetry, The Gift of Grief. “Grief doesn’t feel like a gift until one day it does. Grief becomes the link that allows us to hold our memories tight, embrace the lessons learned, and move forward without losing our connection to those who have impacted our lives. Learning…
Linda Caradine’s new memoir, Lying Down with Dogs, published by Unsolicited Press, has garnered early success. It has been shortlisted in Memoir Magazine’s competition and again for the Written in the Northwest Spruce Award. Caradine will next be at the Oregon State Fair Author Table on September 1. After that, she will be participating in…
Award-winning indie author Julie Mathison will be speaking at Bloomsbury Books in downtown Ashland on Monday, July 29th at 7 p.m. about the pros and cons of indie vs. traditional publishing. Mathison came to independent publishing after years of pursuing the traditional dream, securing a top agent, making the rounds to the “Big Five” of…
Travel through the depth of loneliness and the grace of caregiving. Coping is not a conventional “how-to” guide with medical insights; instead, it astonishes readers with the vivid portrayal of human kindness amidst tears, anger and unexpected laughter. Coping is a book of true stories about a diverse group of caregivers where caring and conflict…
Chaos at the Lazy Bones Bookshop, the first book in Emmeline Duncan’s Halloween Bookshop Mystery, comes out on July 23rd from Kensington Cozies. The first in a new Pacific Northwest-set mystery series inspired by the real “Halloweentown!” Bailey Briggs adores her year-round Halloween-themed town of Elyan Hollow, Oregon. But when she takes over her grandfather’s…
Cheryl Landes’ memoir, The Best I Can Do: A True Story of Navigating the Complexities of Mental Illness and Homelessness, was released on May 1 in conjunction with Mental Health Awareness Month. She shares her experiences of caring for a spouse struggling from an undiagnosed mental health condition during the last 20 years of his…
