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C. P. Lesley
Oct 30, 20196 min read
Spotlight on P. K. Adams
As much as I love historical fiction—especially historical fiction set in Russia and Eastern Europe (assuming the authors know what...
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Joan Schweighardt
Aug 30, 20194 min read
Spotlight on Joy Castro
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...
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Joan Schweighardt
Jun 28, 20195 min read
Spotlight on Faye Rapoport DesPres
With this post, Five Directions Press author Joan Schweighardt—the author of The Last Wife of Attila the Hun and Before We Died, among...
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Joan Schweighardt
Nov 25, 20183 min read
Five Directions Press Authors Dish: Food
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...
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Courtney J. Hall
Jul 15, 20172 min read
Spotlight on Denise Allan Steele
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...
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Courtney J. Hall
Apr 28, 20174 min read
Spotlight on Claudia H. Long
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...
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Courtney J. Hall
Dec 19, 20162 min read
Spotlight on Mary Martin Devlin
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...
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Courtney J. Hall
Sep 21, 20165 min read
Spotlight on Shelly Reuben
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...
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C. P. Lesley
Apr 14, 20162 min read
Books We Loved, Apr. 2016
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...
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Courtney J. Hall
Mar 17, 20164 min read
Spotlight on Sophie Perinot
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...
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C. P. Lesley
Feb 15, 20162 min read
Books We Loved, Feb. 2016
Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale (St. Martin’s Press, 2015) The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah’s moving story of the French Resistance during...
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Courtney J. Hall
Dec 20, 20153 min read
Spotlight on Liza Perrat
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...
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Courtney J. Hall
Sep 3, 20152 min read
Spotlight on Ariadne Apostolou
How does your second novel, West End Quartet, relate to Seeking Sophia, your debut novel? WEQ is actually four related novellas about...
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C. P. Lesley
Sep 1, 20151 min read
Welcome to Our Newsletter Archive
Here you will find the highlights of our past quarterly newsletters: interviews with authors, books we recommend as worth reading, and...
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