Donna Pedace discovered her literary talents on the heels of several already engaging and colorful careers. But rather than write a novel...

Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (Henry Holt, 2021) I read Shadow and Bone after watching the fantasy Netflix series of the same name. It’s...

What to do when the Muse takes a break? Joan Schweighardt has thoughts on this question.

Chang-Rae Lee, My Year Abroad (Riverhead Books, 2021) My Year Abroad is divided into chapters describing narrator Tiller Bardmon’s life...

Linda S. Browning had to wait for retirement to start writing novels, but she is making up for lost time with eleven well-received books...

Anne Louise Bannon, Death of the Zanjero (Healcroft House, 2018) It’s 1870, and Maddie Wilcox, a young widow supporting herself by...

Nina Bocci, The Ingredients of You and Me (Gallery Books, 2020) Miscommunication is a commonly used plot device in romance novels, and if...

We’re pleased to introduce you to Phyllis Skoy, whose sincere interest in other people led her to a successful career as a psychoanalyst...

Lots of good picks here, and—if you enjoy historical fiction set in a lesser-known time and place (sixteenth-century Russia), don’t miss...

This month’s dish topic was a no-brainer. On the day we picked to decide on it, the white stuff was falling across much of the country....

Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze (Avon, 2020) Catalina Baylor is the titular Prime of House Baylor, where she and her crew, including her...

What writer hasn’t heard of NaNoWriMo, the nonprofit that challenges creative people around the world to write 50,000 words towards a new...

Rachael Bloome, The Secret in Sandcastles (Secret Garden Press, 2020) This novel, the third in Rachael Bloome's Poppy Creek series,...

Being too discreet to discuss the politics of the moment at our virtual watercooler, this month we Five Directions Press authors are...

Jennifer Ashley, Death below Stairs (Berkley, 2018) When Galit Gottlieb, the host of New Books in Literature and a mystery writer...

Between the years of 1999 and 2005, just before the advent of digital books and books on demand, I had my own indie publishing company....

Books We Loved in October by Catriona Innes, Patricia Morrisroe, Eleanor Parker Sapia, and G. Willow Wilson.

Five Directions Press author Claudia H. Long remembers her 21st year in part 2 of our group post.

Books We Loved in September 2020: Heather Bell Adams, Linda Kass, Madeline Miller, and Tea Obrecht

Five Directions Press authors remember the year they turned 21.