![]() ![]() Early in her writing career, she published in various genres including suspense, horror, historical and contemporary romance, television and movie tie-in, and biography. After stints as a book editor for a Manhattan publishing house and an account coordinator for a major advertising agency, she sold her first novel, the supernatural young adult thriller SUMMER LIGHTNING. She worked in two independent bookstores during college, then moved alone to New York City at 21 to pursue her dream. Wendy grew up in a large, close-knit family in rural southwestern New York State and decided she wanted to become an author while in third grade. Those novels and the women's fiction she writes under the pseudonym Wendy Markham have also frequently appeared on the USA Today, Barnes and Noble Top Ten, and Bookscan bestseller lists. Under her own name, Wendy achieved New York Times bestselling status with her single title psychological suspense novels. New York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub is the award-winning author of more than seventy published novels and has sold more than three million books worldwide. ![]()
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![]() LARGE PRINT EDITION AVAILABLE HERE > https: //. Their encounters are turbulent and their ensuing romance revealing as Clark slowly discovers all her secrets, only to expose the ambiguities of his own life choices on his journey to Finding Eden. When a business encounter thrusts Clark Dulanty into her life, he accidentally stumbles from her days into her nights and uncovers both sides of Mary Alayna Dalton. The only thing missing in her life is a loving relationship with someone accepting of her whole life. By night, she shares her home with six young men who grew up at Eden Hall, a boys' foster home, and performs with them in their band that plays at the local pub. īy day, Mary Alayna Dalton is a successful Chicago professional who is being considered for a promotion to the top position in her company. When a business encounter thrusts Clark Dulanty into her life, he accidentally stumbles from her days into her nights and. NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. ![]() ![]() By day, Mary Alayna Dalton is a successful Chicago professional who is being considered for a promotion to the top position in her company. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Last Saturday, I found myself at the middle of a bookstore trying to take advantage of their ongoing sale. And it takes less than a month for Tanner to fall completely in love with him. After all, it takes only one second for him to notice Sebastian Brother, the Mormon prodigy who sold his own Seminar novel the year before and who now mentors the class. It turns out, Tanner is only partly right: four months is a long time. Writing a book in four months sounds simple. Now, with one semester of high school to go, and no obstacles between him and out-of-state college freedom, Tanner plans to coast through his remaining classes and clear out of Utah.īut when his best friend Autumn dares him to take Provo High’s prestigious Seminar-where honor roll students diligently toil to draft a book in a semester-Tanner can’t resist going against his better judgment and having a go, if only to prove to Autumn how silly the whole thing is. Three years ago, Tanner Scott’s family relocated from California to Utah, a move that nudged the bisexual teen temporarily back into the closet. Genre/s: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance, LGBTQ+ ![]() ![]() ![]() I loved the book." -Diane Haeger, author of The Queen's Mistake "A beautifully written story with wonderful attention to detail. But in an age of ruthless beheadings, no self-serving motive goes unpunished-and Elizabeth and Bess will have to fight a force more sinister than the executioner's axe. The women's loyalties are tested as his schemes unfold-among them the litigious marriage of his niece, Anne Boleyn, to King Henry the VIII. But they are mere spectators to an obsession neither can rival: Norfolk's quest to weave the Howard name into the royal bloodline. ![]() ![]() For years, she and Elizabeth compete for his affections. Naïve and vulnerable, Bess Holland is easily charmed by the Duke of Norfolk, doing his bidding in exchange for gifts and adoration. And when he takes on a mistress, she is determined to fight for her love and her honor. Yet Elizabeth is surprised by her passion for her powerful new husband. But when her father gives her hand to Thomas Howard, third Duke of Norfolk, the spirited young woman must sacrifice all for duty. As Queen Catherine's maid and daughter of the Duke of Buckingham, the future seems bright for Elizabeth Stafford. ![]() ![]() ![]() For me this meant some of the arguments lost their power e.g., comparison of homosexuality and historic treatment of lesbian women vs gay men. I felt that some of the points were more nuanced than than the way they were presented, which could be quite forceful. I'll definitely be going back to re-read these chapters and Chesler's primary research. Insights into these areas attracted me to the book and I wasn't disappointed. I particularly enjoyed the research chapters and felt the author made a lot of valuable points about engendered mental illness, how this plays out socially, and patriarchal power imbalances being reproduced within mainstream psychiatry. At times these worked very well and added to the richness and depth of the book, at other times, the book could feel a little disjointed because it was doing so much. It contained an eclectic mix of mythology, history, research, author opinion, and, essentially, manifesto. Interesting but consider getting written versionĪn interesting, thought provoking and impassioned book. ![]() ![]() Seriously, at this point in my career as a professional reader to an audience of one, if someone came down and said I could only read one author to my son for the rest of his adolescence. At nights, Dahl's books are basically all we read, and I know you've heard me gush enough on the subject, but if your child is interesting and interested at all, you owe it to them to introduce Dahl to their imagination. Not hard really, since my son (not to mention his parents) is currently obsessed with all things Dahl. ![]() Since I've reviewed the first book, I figured it was about time I got around to the other. But hey, I'm the mother who played Edgar Allen Poe spoken word for her son today and then found herself having to explain why PERSON A killing PERSON B and hiding him under the floor doesn't constitute as "the circle of life." But I digress. Will be taking my four-year-old son to both no matter what the mommy-critics say. ![]() Really, you could cut the anticipation with a knife around here. ![]() ![]() whether it be Wes Anderson's directing controversy or the discussion on whether or not Dave Eggers ruined a Spike Jonze masterpiece with his angst ridden writing. So much excitement with the Where the Wild Things Are and Fantastic Mr. Roald Dahl ~ illustrations by Donald Chaffin ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, I have a 4-month-old baby, and I can feel that it’s becoming more necessary to really carve out space for writing in advance. As a twentysomething, I was aware of having a kind of elasticity and freedom in my day that I wouldn’t have forever. ![]() I’ve always just written anytime I had a chance, almost compulsively - on planes, on weekends, late at night when other work was done. “That day freed me from one of the worst traps in both life and writing, where you talk or think about something for so long that you neglect your freedom to just go out and give it a try,” Tolentino said.īelow, read more from Tolentino on how she spent time in solitude while working on “Trick Mirror,” as well as which works form her personal literary canon. ![]() ![]() At some point her professor reminded her that the only way to find out if the idea would hold up on paper was to “ actually write it.” “I was doing the whole thing like, ‘I don’t know, does this sound like it could be good?’” Tolentino recounted to the PBS NewsHour. Shortly after she finished college and before she began writing the essays that would form the backbone of her collection “Trick Mirror,” Jia Tolentino bounced a writing idea off one of her professors from the University of Virginia. ![]() ![]() ![]() With professional killers on your trail, it s not a bad idea to have as much protection as possible, human or otherwise.īut I m beginning to wonder if two monsters are better than one. So what s a girl to do but turn to the men in her life for help? Which in my case means an alpha werewolf and a master vampire. So what s a girl to do but turn to the men in her life for help? Whi. ![]() Word on the street is that Anita Blake, preternatural expert and vampire killer extraordinaire, is worth half a million dollars. The first hit man came after me at home, which should be against the rules. These days my life is a cross between a preternatural soap opera and an action-adventure movie.' ![]() ![]() ![]() What sites your reviews are posted on (B&N, Amazon, etc.) and whether you send digital (eBook, PDF, Word, etc.) or hard copies of your books to each other for review is up to you. Simply put, you agree to provide an honest review an author's book in exchange for the author doing the same for you. This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Review Exchange Program, which is open to all authors and is completely free. To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email. You and the author will discuss what sites you will post your review to and what kind of copy of the book you would like to receive (eBook, PDF, Word, paperback, etc.). The author will provide you with a free copy of their book in exchange for an honest review. ![]() This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Free Book Program, which is open to all readers and is completely free. ![]() ![]() Yet Margaret was also the first woman to be invited to the Royal Society of London - a mainstay of the Scientific Revolution - and the last for another two hundred years. After the War, her work earned her both fame and infamy in England: at the dawn of daily newspapers, she was Mad Madge, an original tabloid celebrity. ![]() As the English Civil War raged on, Margaret met and married William Cavendish, who encouraged her writing and her desire for a career. As one of the Queen’s attendants and the daughter of prominent Royalists, she was exiled to France when King Charles I was overthrown. The eccentric Margaret wrote and published volumes of poems, philosophy, feminist plays, and utopian science fiction at a time when being a writer was not an option open to women. Margaret the First dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, the shy, gifted, and wildly unconventional 17th-century Duchess. ![]() "Toggling between the comic and the horrific, these brilliant stories rearrange the familiar into something more nuanced, fraught, and mysterious." Edan Lepucki, author of California From Twilight Zone suburbia to cities on fire to post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan, the award-winning stories in Man and Wife, range over unexpected landscapes and land squarely in the wildness of the human heart. ![]() |