“Compassion fatigue, sometimes called caregiver burnout, is disrupting lives, upending careers, and tearing families apart. It’s one of the most pervasive and least discussed problems faced by anyone in a heart-based role, whether a care-centered profession or an unpaid family caregiver. Peter Dudley and Antoinette LeCouteur bring together 17 experts from a variety of professions,…
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Member News: New Release – Then Comes Spring by Jean Rover
In this diverse tapestry-of-life short story collection, something ends, something begins. You’ll meet a grieving young woman dreading the birth of her child; a family awed by President Truman’s wave; a man who believes his printer talks to him; folks besieged by guilt or in relationships nearing a breaking point; a father struggling with his…
Member News: Awarded- Gannets and Ghouls by Sue Parman
“Sue Parman is an anthropologist and writer whose spooky mystery, “Gannets and Ghouls,” was published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine September/October, 2024, and whose thoughts on the relationship between anthropologists and mystery writers was published in EQMM’s blog as “The Anthropologist and the Mystery Writer: The Structure of Secrets,”” https://somethingisgoingtohappen.net/2024/08/22/the-anthropologist-and-the-mystery-writer-the-structure-of-secrets-by-sue-parman/ Her account of travel in…
Member News: New Release – Trini’s Magic Kitchen by Patricia Santos Marcantonio
Patricia Santos Marcantonio is 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…
Member News: New Release – Crafty Cat by Mollie Hunt
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…
MEMBER NEWS: New Release and Reading — One Ripple at a Time by Janice Jensen
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…
MEMBER NEWS: New Release – Announcing The Red Stone by award winning author, Linnie Thomas
Tired of all the violence occurring in today’s fantasies, I wrote a cozy fantasy involving a protagonist who cannot use violence of any kind. Heavy responsibility falls on the shoulders of a young girl as she faces an invasion of a spider like people from another planet who don’t follow the rules. An invisible black…
MEMBER NEWS: New Release – The End of Time by Sharleen Nelson
The End of Time, by author Sharleen Nelson, completes the Time Tourists Trilogy, featuring The Time Tourists and The Yesterday Girl (GladEye Press), which follow the continuing adventures of time-traveling private investigator Imogen Oliver as she unlocks secrets from the past while navigating her own complicated life in the present. Author Sharleen Nelson (GladEye Press)…
MEMBER NEWS: NEW RELEASE: WolfScape by H.D. Duman
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…
MEMBER NEWS: NEW RELEASE: The Gift of Grief by T. L. Cooper
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…