Behind The Quill: Finding Inspiration in the World
While perusing your local bookshop, reading a wonderfully unique novel, or scanning the “Also By” page of a book by one of your favorite authors, you’ve doubtlessly been struck with the same question at least once: How do they get all of their ideas? It’s seriously...Behind the Quill: Researching with Holly Newman
I am a history junkie. I love history, and, in the past, I have been known to get lost in my research to the detriment of my novel writing. I’d chase details down a rabbit hole and become lost in a different world, like Alice in Wonderland. In wide-eyed wonderment,...Behind the Quill: Making Connections in the Industry
Hello lovely readers, If you took the leap last week to try to write a book during NaNoWriMo, we bet you’re already feeling a tad bit fatigued. Whether you’re a seasoned author who already writes fast or someone who is trying this whole writing thing out for the first...Camille Duplessis Believes in You
This one is for all the people who experience dread when their peers start talking about NaNoWriMo. I used to abhor the entire affair, which is ironic because few things motivate me better than competition with myself. As a child, I used to set summer reading goals to...Behind the Quill: Writing Processes and Writer’s Block
Last time we met with our group of savvy writers, they told us a little bit about how they made time for writing and turned their dreams of being authors into a reality. This time we’re diving a little more into their processes and how they handle that frightful foe,...Featured Books
Cry Wolf: A Brown and de Luca Novel (Brown & de Luca Return Book 1)
A short, riveting thriller that resets you in the Brown and de Luca Universe just in time for GIRL BLUE.
“Shayne has hit the jackpot with the pairing of self-help author Rachel de Luca and Detective Mason Brown. …she is a master storyteller.” –RT Book Reviews on Innocent Prey, a Brown and de Luca Novel
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Illusions of Death
Best-selling author Karlyn Campbell is ready for a new start after her recent divorce from a temperamental artist. When she receives word that her father had a stroke, she heads for Walton Springs with mixed feelings. Broderick Campbell wrote Pulitzer Prize-winning literary novels and denounced his daughter’s work as pedestrian and commercial, causing a rift that finally heals on his deathbed. Karlyn chooses to stay in the small Georgia town to write her popular Matt Collins series and decides to try her hand at true crime when Atlanta’s Rainbow Killer, Roy G. Biv, captures her interest.
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“I’ll never be the kind of woman who wears pearls with her apron while cooking meatloaf for her husband. But when I was a kid, my mother, Babs, prepared me to be the next June Cleaver - teaching me lessons that belonged to another era. Another world, practically. My mother’s world. But what can you expect from a woman whose biggest aspiration was to be Cotton Queen? I couldn’t wait to leave home and get away from her. But now, well... let’s just say life hasn’t turned out quite like I’d planned. And heaven help me, I’m going home.” - Laney Hoffman, Cotton Queen, 1975
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