Why Bookstores Aren’t Helping Indie Authors—Yet
TW Column by David Biddle
View all Trend piecesThe staff of this lovely shop didn’t welcome me with open arms.
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A Menagerie of Writing Possibilities
Essay by Ronald J. Pelias
View all Inspirational piecesIt knows the value in the discarded, knows the drama of the search.
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Why I Teach—and Write
Editor's Note by Martha Nichols
View all Craft piecesI teach for the same reasons I write: to connect with an audience.
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Liliane's Balcony: A Novella of Fallingwater
Novella Excerpt by Kelcey Parker
View all StoriesNot that Stoops would stoop to servants’ quarters; Stoops would stow herself away in the husband’s room. Liliane winces, takes another pill for her pain.
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The Right of the Sun to Die
Poem by R. J. Keeler
View all PoetryAfter it exercises its right to swell to a red giant and incinerate the younger earth.
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The Game Changer
Memoir by Fran Cronin
View all Hot TopicsSnippets of splendor were sprinkled everywhere in Moscow.
