…are and support their local bookstores instead of buying books online. Garrigan argues that Amazon’s refusal to collect the state and local sales taxes that other bricks-and-mortar stores collect–taxes that…
…support her, thus relieving them of a financial burden. Despite her family’s precarious financial situation, Scott rejected the option of traditional marriage, choosing instead to run away with an older,…
…as his unusual choice of writing in the third person, and focusing on overlooked members of society, such as the farmers and carpenters he works with daily. True to his…
…a slave, Kunte Kinte, from his abduction in West Africa, up through his death on an American plantation. The real-life story of Roots eventually led to Henning, Tennessee, where Kinte’s…
…query letters. Just as I was finishing the book, I came across a blog by another author detailing his success on Amazon. I knew that querying agents would take months,…
July 6, 2011 Michael Knight’s transcendent novel The Typist won’t be out in paperback till next month, but O magazine is recommending it for the beach bag nonetheless. In the…