Books We Loved, Jun. 2019
Ana Johns, The Woman in the White Kimono (Park Row Books, 2019) Naoko Nakamura is only seventeen when she falls madly in love with an...
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Joan Schweighardt
May 29, 20195 min read
Five Directions Press Authors Dish: Writing Tips
Since newer writers are always asking us old-timers for hot tips, this month we are dishing about the psychology of villains, the...
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C. P. Lesley
May 15, 20193 min read
Books We Loved, May 2019
Rachael Bloome, Puzzle Pieces (2019) Free download at author’s website Elle is an app developer whose claim to fame is Puzzle Pieces, an...
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Joan Schweighardt
Apr 26, 20199 min read
Five Directions Press Authors Dish: On Matters Mystical and Mundane
This month Five Directions Press authors have gone deep to dish about what it means to be in touch with the esoteric side of life: past...
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C. P. Lesley
Apr 14, 20194 min read
Books We Loved, Apr. 2019
Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger (Flatiron Books, 2019) The Night Tiger is much more than just a fantasy novel—it’s also a mystery, a...
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Joan Schweighardt
Mar 28, 20197 min read
Five Directions Press Authors Dish: Saying Goodbye to Our Own Characters
Last month 5DP authors dished about saying goodbye to characters not of our own making. This month we’re honing in on the real deal, the...
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C. P. Lesley
Mar 14, 20194 min read
Books We Loved, Mar. 2019
C, J. Box, The Disappeared (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2018) Even fantasy can become mundane if one reads too much of it. The Disappeared by...
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Joan Schweighardt
Feb 27, 20195 min read
Five Directions Press Authors Dish: Saying Goodbye to Characters (1)
Never can say goodbye, no, no, no, no, now Never can say goodbye Today 5DP Authors are standing around the proverbial water cooler...
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C. P. Lesley
Feb 14, 20194 min read
Books We Loved, Feb. 2019
Terry Gamble, The Eulogist (William Morrow, 2019) When Olivia Givens and her family leave Ireland in 1819, the crops are failing and the...
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Joan Schweighardt
Jan 30, 20195 min read
Five Directions Press Authors Dish: Special Places
What a lovely topic 5DP Authors have chosen to dish about this month. Once we got going, we realized that a special place can be anything...
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C. P. Lesley
Jan 15, 20193 min read
Books We Loved, Jan. 2019
P. K. Adams, The Greenest Branch (Iron Knight Press, 2018) Hildegard of Bingen was long one of the forgotten women of history. Consigned...
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Joan Schweighardt
Dec 19, 20188 min read
Five Directions Press Authors Dish: Home
Oh, there's no place like home for the holidays 'Cause no matter how far away you roam When you pine for the sunshine of a friendly gaze...
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C. P. Lesley
Dec 14, 20184 min read
Books We Loved, Dec. 2018
Just in time for holiday shopping and reading, we have a bunch of Christmas and winter books to recommend. Treat yourself, treat your...
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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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C. P. Lesley
Nov 16, 20183 min read
Books We Loved, Nov. 2018
Kate Morton, The Clockmaker’s Daughter (Atria Books, 2018) It’s not often that I encounter a novel so densely and intricately plotted...
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C. P. Lesley
Oct 14, 20184 min read
Books We Loved, Oct. 2018
John Bude, The Cornish Coast Murder (British Library Edition, 2014 [1935]) Ernest Carpenter Elmore (1901–1957), writing as John Bude, was...
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C. P. Lesley
Sep 14, 20184 min read
Books We Loved, Sep. 2018
In addition to our own Joan Schweighardt’s Before We Died (Rivers, Book 1), due out any day, here are a few suggestions for those...
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C. P. Lesley
Aug 15, 20184 min read
Books We Loved, Aug. 2018
Amy Mason Doan, The Summer List (Graydon House, 2018) Everyone’s always trying to find the perfect summer read. The summer after I...
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C. P. Lesley
Aug 5, 20185 min read
Interview with Kate Braithwaite
It’s been a while since we’ve hosted an author interview here on our blog, but when we learned that Kate Braithwaite, an author who...
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C. P. Lesley
Jul 21, 20185 min read
Books We Loved, Jul. 2018
Lots of activity this month, especially in reference to C. P. Lesley’s Legends of the Five Directions series, now officially drawing to a...
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