Book Review: Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson Check out Black Cake Expansive and tender, Black Cake is perfect for book clubs. A page-turner written mostly in vignettes that flit from past to present, person to person, it also allows moments for quiet contemplation. It’s an exploration of the intermixing of
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Book Review: Wahala by Nikki May Check out Wahala May writes with sharp perception of the roles of women, the struggle, the striving, the dissatisfaction, and the longing for something more—that greener grass. When really, the grass you have is probably what you wanted all along—it’s just sometimes hard to
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Book Review: Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty Check out Apples Never Fall An engaging and intriguing exploration of the dynamics of family, along with generational pain and expectation. Moriarty’s characterization is amazing! Each character, each voice, so well-developed and explored, absolutely leaping from the page. I feel this book
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Querying Agents: Part One – How to Research a Literary Agent An author friend asked me a while back, how I went about querying an agent – not for himself, he’s been agented for over two decades, but for the emerging writers who ask him the same. I’m SURE he
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Book Review: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Check out Station Eleven This is one of the most beautiful and memorable books I’ve read in a long time. Mandel is a true artist and storyteller, who weaves this tale with such apparent ease, it’s breath-taking. As I turned the
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Blink Studios to Adapt Charlene Carr’s Upcoming Novel ‘Hold My Girl’ – Global Bulletin By Jamie Lang ADAPTATION Blink Studios, the new content venture from Endeavor Content, has acquired the rights to Canadian author Charlene Carr’s next novel “Hold My Girl” and will adapt the book as a series. Blink Studios will serve
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Book Chat: Mrs. Everything, by Jennifer Weiner https://youtu.be/fKB9sjL2Bvg Check out Mrs. Everything This book is epic. I feel it should be required reading for women … and men too, actually. I wasn’t quite as engrossed in the first 1/2 to 2/3s – don’t get me wrong, it was still good,
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Heather Marshall’s LOOKING FOR JANE is a novel of brave and determined women is a must-read that honours countless untold stories of a past that’s been too long-silenced, that in other countries still exists. Beautiful, heartbreaking, necessary, and memorable.
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Book Review: The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams Check out The Reading List This read was like a warm book-loving hug. Adams did a brilliant job of drawing us into the characters’ lives and world. It reminds the reader of the power of story to influence and shape our
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