Linda K. Sienkiewicz's Blog, page 2
July 28, 2025
Cowboy the Corgi Crowned Royal Park Dog of the Year
Cowboy the corgi has been crowned Royal Park Hotel’s Dog of the Year 2025! Read how this bow-tied pup charmed the judges and earned his royal title plus a peek behind the scenes of his first official photo shoot.
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July 23, 2025
The Finesse of Chaos: Miriam Gershow’s Novel CLOSER
In the novel CLOSER, Miriam Gershow tackles a stunning breadth of social issues—race, religion, class, sexual identity, disability, infidelity—with remarkable finesse.
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July 21, 2025
Marriage, Blisters, and the Great Blow or Suck Debate
How cleaning the garage turned into a test of our love, patience, and lung capacity. A true story of heat, dust, and questionable power tools.
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July 16, 2025
Review: Sky Daddy by Kate Folk: A Weird, Empathetic Descent
Review of Sky Daddy by Kate Folk, a funny yet unsettling novel about grief, obsession, and a woman’s strange love for a 737. Part fetish, part escape plan, all heartbreak.
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July 7, 2025
What, Why, How: Author Jann Alexander
Jann Alexander’s writing deals with themes of upheaval, betrayal, family estrangement, families lost and found, homelessness, and poverty—themes in todays headlines— about the Dust Bowl in the 1930’s.
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June 30, 2025
Using Fiction to Process Real-Life Tragedy and Family Secrets
Exploring a writer’s journey of transforming painful truths into fiction—and how writing and sharing our stories is a powerful way to find healing, meaning, and hope after life’s hardest moments.
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June 26, 2025
One Woman, Three Selves, and a Second Chance at Becoming Whole
The Past and Future Walk Into an Elevator… A thoughtful twist on the Scrooge effect, Just Emelia by Jennifer Oko offers a modern and introspective take on personal transformation that feels both familiar and refreshingly original. In place of Dickens’s cold-hearted miser reckoning with his mortality after ghostly visits from the past, present, and future, […]
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June 23, 2025
Imagination as a double-edged sword
Our imagination is a strength, but it can also generate fear, anxiety and paralysis, often without resolution when we imagine things going wrong.
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June 16, 2025
How a Poet Wrote a Novel About Art, War, and Survival
Five years and multiple messy drafts, a poet's patience is woven into a novelist's grit. The result is a haunting, layered story that spans decades, from Nazi-occupied France to the present day, unraveling the theft of beauty in a time of brutality.
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June 12, 2025
A Fresh Look for My Debut Novel’s Birthday
A 10-year book anniversary is a perfect opportunity to release a special edition with updated cover art, bonus content, or a foreword. It invites longtime fans to revisit and new readers to discover.
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