Yippee skippy happy news! Darby Karchut’s Middle Grade contemporary, THE HORSE WHO CARRIES THE STARS, recently won the 2025 Western Writers of America’s Spur Award for Juvenile Fiction. ABOUT THE BOOK  Thirteen-year-old Reece Harding has both hands full dealing with one headstrong mare who’s all go and no whoa. When […]

Here’s some great news! Terence Robinson is pleased to announce the release of his debut novel, THE MAFIA’S TELEPHONE COMPANY: INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY (Feb. 2025 from Bitterroot Mountain Publishing House). ABOUT THE BOOK  Erick Olson’s financing to purchase Whitman Telephone falls through. He’s left scrambling for funds to […]

By Trista Herring Baughman You have a great story idea. Or you’ve started a book, but you’re stuck. Now what? How can you go from a seedling of a story to a fully branched, deeply rooted one? If you’re a panster, you’ll likely begin by sitting down to write. If […]

Congratulations to Gwynne Stanker on her recent short story release: Night of the Cheetah (Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine) ABOUT THE STORY  Eleven-year-old American Asia Jefferson’s plane crashes on the South African savannah. She is the sole survivor. She overcomes encounters with vultures, hyenas, and cheetahs only because a local tribesman […]