Our Writers Who Read series continues this week with young adult romantic comedy author Tellulah Darling. I highly recommend her book Sam Cruz’s Infallible Guide to Getting Girls. It’s hilarious and fun, and I love the voice of the male character. Who are you? Tellulah Darling noun 1. YA romantic comedy author because her first kiss sucked … [Read more…]
This week I’m welcoming a guest post by Daniel Hales, whose new book of poetry, Tempo Maps (ixnay press, Philadelphia), will be released this Saturday when he reads at the Philly Art Alliance as part of the Philalalia Small Press Festival. Here Daniel shares his ten favorite books of prose poetry from roughly the last fifty … [Read more…]
Our Writers Who Read series continues this week with writer Ann Gelder. Who are you? A novelist, nonfiction writer, and recovering academic. My first novel, Bigfoot and the Baby, published by Bona Fide Books this past June, tells the story of a frustrated homemaker who searches for God and finds Bigfoot instead. (You can learn more at Bona Fide … [Read more…]
This month I’ve been tagged by a fellow author in a blog hop where I answer questions about my writing process and then tag three more writers. I was tagged by the lovely romance writer Rebecca Brooks, who wrote about her writing process here. Here’s a bit more about Rebecca: Rebecca Brooks lives in New York … [Read more…]
Our Writers Who Read series continues this week with young adult author Maureen O’Leary Wanket. Who are you? My name is Maureen O’Leary Wanket and my young adult novel How to Be Manly is coming out September 16th with Giant Squid Books. How to be Manly is about how in the course of one summer, Fatty Matty … [Read more…]
I recently did that Facebook book nerd meme that is making the rounds, the one where you’re supposed to list ten books that have stayed with you. The question, as I copied it, instructed me to not think too hard about this question, so of course I then proceeded to think twice as long as most other people … [Read more…]
Our Writers Who Read series continues this week with Kelly Ann Jacobson. Who are you? My name is Kelly Ann Jacobson, and I am the author of the literary novel Cairo in White and the young adult series The Zaniyah Trilogy. Cairo in White is about a closeted Egyptian teen, Zahra, who finds herself in an arranged … [Read more…]
Our Writers Who Read series continues this week with Marly Youmans. Who are you? Marly Youmans. Some people know me as the author of 13 books, counting this year’s Glimmerglass and next year’s Maze of Blood. I write poetry (mostly formal, including long narratives), short stories, novels, and the occasional essay. Other people know me by my … [Read more…]
Our Writers Who Read series continues this week with writer Joyce Thierry Llewellyn. Who are you? I was a field biology technician in Northern Ontario then went back to university to focus on creative writing and became a magazine and newspaper journalist before moving into film and television screenwriting and story editing, which I’ve now been doing for almost … [Read more…]
Our Writers Who Read series continues this week with writer Désirée Zamorano. Who are you? Author of The Amado Women, multi-generational family drama, out this summer from Cinco Puntos Press. A Mexican-American who grew up reading everything I could get my hands on, from Maya Angelou to Bible stories to the encyclopedia set Man, Myth and Magic in the … [Read more…]