Oh, we love our pets at Five Directions Press. We love them so much that we wrote our hearts out describing them, and now have to share...

As much as I love historical fiction—especially historical fiction set in Russia and Eastern Europe (assuming the authors know what...

It’s my great pleasure to interview Joy Castro for this Spotlight feature. With her permission I’d like to introduce her with her recent...

With this post, Five Directions Press author Joan Schweighardt—the author of The Last Wife of Attila the Hun and Before We Died, among...

Foodies are at their best this time of year, when the Thanksgiving leftovers are still taking up too much space in the fridge and the...

You’ve stated that you were inspired to write Rewind when your kids asked you about “the olden days.” What made you decide to write about...

When did you start writing, and how does it tie into your “regular life”? Oh my… I started writing fiction when my oldest child was...

Where did you get the idea for Precious Pawn? At Mount Holyoke one of my best friends taught in the French Department and used the...

You previously worked as an arson investigator and a PI. What inspired you to turn to writing? Actually, it was the other way around. I...

Anjali Mitter Duva, Faint Promise of Rain (She Writes Press, 2014) A rare rainstorm greets the birth of a girl into the family of the...

What first drew you to the royal court of France? The roots of my love of French history lie in two things. First, when I was young I got...

Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale (St. Martin’s Press, 2015) The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah’s moving story of the French Resistance during...

Where did you get the idea for the Bone Angel Trilogy? The idea for the first in the series, Spirit of Lost Angels, came to me on a...

How does your second novel, West End Quartet, relate to Seeking Sophia, your debut novel? WEQ is actually four related novellas about...

Here you will find the highlights of our past quarterly newsletters: interviews with authors, books we recommend as worth reading, and...