To celebrate Summer, we are giving away two delightful books from Modern History Press, a great indie publishing house right here in Michigan. (Check out www.LHPress.com for more of their wonderful selection of books, many written by Michigan authors.) The U.P. READER brings “Upper Michigan literature to the world.” Each year, for the past six…
Sometimes Life Takes an Unforeseen Twist (Yes, that’s my husband Neil with a treble hook embedded in his finger, and it wasn’t my fault.) In 2021, I alerted readers that my new novel would be published in 2022. I mailed out more than 400 custom bookmarks. Many of you received one of those. They’re orange…
We are back to our Book Give-Away Schedule. Hooray! I love finding great books and giving a copy to one very lucky reader!! This winter I took a few months “off” due to a variety of factors, including a first-for-us-winter as “snowbirds,” a bout with Covid (despite having all the vaccinations and boosters), and being…
Included in the long list of my favorite authors is Canadian author, Laura Best. I could take an entire page to describe her writing, but, if limited to just one word, it would be haunting. (But please let me add lyrical!) Our November 2021 Free Book is Laura’s novel GOOD MOTHER’S DON’T. From the back…
This summer it was my privilege to sit in on one day of a week-long writers’ workshop run by award-winning author Joseph D. Haske! It’s so seldom that I have the opportunity to talk with other writers, and I loved this short get-away-time in the midst of what was for me a very busy and…
Our featured book this month is one of the most beautiful I’ve ever seen! Written and illustrated by my long-time friend Dinny Falkenburg, GARDEN: A LOVE STORY, is filled with her drawings and beautiful and wise words. Dinny is known throughout the world for her expertise in training horses and dogs, and now also as…
Leave it to prize-winning food historian and poet, Ann Chandonnet, to bring together so many great recipes and fun facts in this wonderful book!! From the back cover: “Satisfy your curiosity about apple parings, bean stringings, mandolin groups and nut cracks in this enjoyable new food history crammed with facts, menus and more than 150…
Congrats to Barbara Bell who won our July 2021 book!! Barbara, please message me your address and I’ll send Patricia C. Lee’s fabulous book your way! Happy Reading! Sue
I’m delighted that our July FREE BOOK is the fun and wonderful novel FIRST GEAR by Patricia C. Lee. A Sadie Hawkins Mystery that features fiesty Texan Sadie Hawkins, FIRST GEAR will pull you in from page 1! From the back cover: When a routine cargo haul goes south fast, Sadie is arrested for theft…
Our beautiful book for June is THIS I KNOW, a novel by Eldonna Edwards. From the back cover, “Eldonna Edwards has crafted a compelling allegorical tale about the fear of otherness in this coming-of-age tale. Readers of all ages will find an unlikely hero in 11-year-old Grace Marie Carter–who was born with a type of…
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