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Jane Ward I always re-read at least one Laurie Colwin novel each summer. Her titles have been reissued this year, and I’m starting with the first to be reissued…moreI always re-read at least one Laurie Colwin novel each summer. Her titles have been reissued this year, and I’m starting with the first to be reissued: Happy All the Time.

Also in the to-be-read stack: Palace of the Drowned by Christine Mangan and The Sum of Us by Heather McGee. I have four books to read in preparation for a Friends of the Library event we’re planning for September. The event theme is Seeking Sanctuary, and the three novels and one memoir are: Wild Boar in the Canefield, Guesthouse for Ganesha, Purple Lotus, and Finding Venerable Mother.(less)
Jane Ward We can feel a great deal of internal pressure when struggling with a piece of writing or a deficit of ideas, and it's very easy to become frustrated w…moreWe can feel a great deal of internal pressure when struggling with a piece of writing or a deficit of ideas, and it's very easy to become frustrated when the work isn't flowing. I try to remember a college writing instructor's advice in those moments. He said, "If you're thinking about characters, even ones you know you will set aside, you're writing. If you're taking notes about what you observe around you, you're writing. If you're sharpening pencils for those notes, you're writing." He meant, of course, that a lot of writing is preparing to write, by thinking and observing and noting. When he said that, I felt a lot of the burden to prove productivity through a growing page count lift off my shoulders. It was a liberating message. (less)
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Should Have Told You Sooner...

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In the Aftermath

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The Mosaic Artist

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Hunger

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Jane’s first book, Hunger. Traditionally published by Forge/St. Martin’s Press in 2001.

The past two decades in the book world have brought with them an enormous expansion of paths to publication. Back in 2001, when I published my first book with Forge/St. Martin’s Press, it was either publish traditionally (e.g., an establishmen

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Kelly Scarborough’s Butterfly Games is an assured debut novel that transports readers into Napoleonic-area Sweden through meticulous attention to historic detail and scene-by-scene action-packed palace intrigues.

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"My day had seen a knotty birth, a giant prolapse, and rampant syphilis," relates Nell "Doc" Hastings at the opening of this powerful debut fiction by Nancy Bernhard.

It is September 1868. The corrupt political machine of Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall ru
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