Author Dede Montgomery’s newest memoir, FROM FIRST BREATH TO LAST: A STORY ABOUT LOVE, WOMANHOOD AND AGING, released by Bedazzled Ink Publishing on March 17. “Two lives, an unpublished memoir, and a posthumous conversation between mother and daughter.” This is Montgomery’s 4th book, joining HUMANITY’S GRACE, BEYOND THE RIPPLES, AND MY MUSIC MAN. Find out…
Member News
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MEMBER NEWS: Travelers’ Tales Annual Solas Awarded to Sue Parman
The Travelers’ Tales Eighteenth Annual Solas Awards for Best Travel Story of the Year awarded the Grand Prize to Sue Parman for her story, “You Can’t Get There from Here,” described as a “wondrous tale about connecting with others in the Outer Hebrides.” Follow Sue at website.
MEMBER NEWS: New Release – Long Journey Home by Michael R. Lane
From “Case 121” and “Silver Anniversary” to “Coma,” “The Last Serious Man,” and “Fogbound,” Long Journey Home takes the reader on distinctive, eclectic, winding journeys through the astonishing complexities of devotion, relationships, longing, lust, and love with a dash of detective mysteries tossed in for additional spice. Follow Michael at his website.
MEMBER NEWS: New Book Contract – Tangled Darkness by MM Desch
Thanks to the Willamette Writers community and so many others, I’m thrilled to announce my first book contract. As the COVID lockdown took hold in 2020, I launched into crime fiction writing. Many drafts later my psychological thriller, TANGLED DARKNESS, will be published by Rowan Prose Publishing in the middle of 2025. The story in…
Member News: New Release: Lines of Deception
Steve Anderson is proud to announce the release of Lines of Deception, book four in his Kaspar Brothers Series! 1949: A West German nightclub owner goes behind the Iron Curtain on a desperate mission to save his brother in this Cold War thriller. Lines of Deception is the fourth in the Kaspar Brothers series but…
MEMBER NEWS: New Book Release – Misbehaving at Cactus Lanes by Patricia Santos Marcantonio
Margaret Adams just buried her late husband but was widowed long before he dropped dead on the ninth hole at his beloved golf club. Now with children grown and her unhappy marriage over, Margaret goes in search of something, anything. Enter Las Vegas bowling alley, Cactus Lanes. With its beautiful neon sign, legendary chili fries…
Member News: New Publication – La Hermana del Alcalde (The Mayor’s Sister) by Tom Larsen
WW Member Tom Larsen’s Short Story “La Hermana del Alcalde” (The Mayor’s Sister) will appear in the March / April Issue of “Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.” Available now at newsstands and wherever fine magazines are sold. Find out more
Member News: Listen Up! A New Local Radio Program – NW Book Talk
A new radio program, NW Book Talk, will be airing on KXRW.FM a local, independent radio station in Vancouver, WA starting February 14th, 2024. The show will feature local authors (fiction and nonfiction), book coaches, publishers, educators, bookstores, book events and all things book related. It’s a great opportunity for book promotion for published authors…
Member News: Editor’s Choice – The Village Healer’s Book of Cures
Willamette Writers member Jennifer Sherman Roberts’ debut novel, The Village Healer’s Book of Cures (Lake Union), has been named an Editor’s Choice by the Historical Novel Society. Set in 17th-century England, the novel follows a female healer who enflames the fury of a witchfinder–who sees not healing but the devil in her work. Find out…
Member News: Book Release – Brighter Than Her Fears
Lisa Ard’s debut adult historical fiction novel, Brighter Than Her Fears, publishes Jan 16, 2024. MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW says “Historical fiction readers interested in stories of post-Civil-War America … and the changing status of women who rose to new power in the war’s aftermath … will find this story of thirty-year-old Alice Harris … compelling,”…