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An Interview with Karen Hill Anton: Author of The View From Breast Pocket Mountain and Winner of the 2020 SPR Book Awards

Karen Hill Anton Karen Hill Anton wrote the column “Crossing Cultures” for The Japan Times for 15 years. She lectures widely on her experience of cross-cultural adaptation and raising four bilingual, bicultural children. Originally from New York City, she’s achieved second-degree mastery in Japanese calligraphy and has lived with her husband William Anton in rural Japan since 1975.

Tell us about your book.

The View From Breast Pocket Mountain, a memoir, tells my experience of crossing borders and cultures, creating a life, and finding contentment in a far-off country. It’s a story that gives a glimpse of a life not designed or […]

2021-06-10T04:51:40+02:00June 2nd, 2021|Categories: Interviews|

Sopa de Letras: 148 Juegos Para Niños by Carmen Garcia

148 Juegos Para Niños by Carmen Garcia

Sopa de Letras: 148 Juegos Para Niños by Carmen Garcia is a fun and instructive word jumble book in Spanish for kids, teaching a wide array of words and concepts. The book is professionally designed with a huge array of puzzles, but there are occasional misspellings and misuse of accents peppered throughout the book. For example, “aparatos de cucina” appears in a title, which should be “cocina,” or “pintaunas,” which should be “pintauñas.” This will obviously add confusion to finding words in a jumble, if the words themselves are misspelled. However, the book is still a useful educational tool given […]

2021-05-27T02:57:15+02:00May 27th, 2021|Categories: Editorial Reviews|

Thriving After Sexual Abuse by Denise Bossarte

Thriving After Sexual Abuse by Denise BossarteAuthor Denise Bossarte offers sage advice and encouragement to those who, like herself, were sexually abused in childhood by a family member, in Thriving After Sexual Abuse: Break Your Bondage to the Past and Live a Life You Love.

Part One, “Getting Help,” recounts Bossarte’s extensive exploration of individual and group therapies, giving a comprehensive overview of what to expect. “Embracing Joy” recalls her emotional and physical outlets: exercise, yoga, creative writing, and photography. “Figuring It Out and Moving On” explores the thorny issues of how and with whom she chose to share her traumatic experiences, and strategies for […]

2021-05-13T08:59:46+02:00May 13th, 2021|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |

Free Will, Do You Have It? by Albertus Kral

Free Will, Do You Have It? by Albertus Kral

A brain-bending dive into the philosophy of personal choice and autonomy, Free Will, Do You Have It? is a fascinating presentation of the author’s personal theory of Procirclism. The author makes a strong case for his idea, through extended metaphors, scientific research, and proposed thought experiments. Presented in a logical structure that introduces scientific concepts and details as necessary, the book is designed intuitively. Kral successfully expounds on a truly challenging and eye-opening theory for why humans do what we do.

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2021-05-05T09:11:07+02:00May 5th, 2021|Categories: Editorial Reviews|

Five Things I Learned from Writing Faithless

Steven RamirezIn 2013, I published the first novel in a new horror thriller series. The book is Tell Me When I’m Dead, and as I wrote it, I hadn’t thought about a sequel. By the time I got to the end, though, I began picturing scenes for the next book. When I finished Book Two, I was well down the path of writing a trilogy.

Overall, the reviews have been positive. By Book Three, I’d had enough of zombies and wrote a supernatural horror series. But I never stopped thinking about the universe I’d created the first time around. After […]

2021-05-05T08:33:40+02:00May 5th, 2021|Categories: Member Blog|Tags: |

How I Approached Writing My First Novel Like a TV Script

Many of you may not know who I am, but I am one of those character actors that generally has a few scenes here and there and often appear on YouTube, in independent films, and recently on UpTV or PureFlix. With the pandemic, 2020 was a rough year for most actors and I was not the exception. I decided to just double down on my own creative projects first by producing my own kids animated series called Kindly Kenney and then by writing my first novel, Jon Bragg Blue Essence, a Norse myth. I had always wanted to attempt […]

2021-04-30T06:22:29+02:00April 30th, 2021|Categories: Member Blog|Tags: |

An Interview with Evan McMillan: Author of Raw Mind Volume 1: Growing Pains

Evan McMillanEvan McMillan is the author of Growing Pains, the first volume of his Raw Mind series. McMillan is a born-again Christian striving to grow, leaving his old self behind and finding balance in the life God has designed and desires for him. McMillan wishes to continue helping others in their struggles and pains as he himself searches for those elusive answers to the tough questions in life.

Tell us about your book.

Raw Mind, Volume 1, Growing Pains is in a collection of poetry comprised of chapters that are introduced and led by elements of prose with specific subjects […]

2021-06-08T10:33:30+02:00April 27th, 2021|Categories: Interviews|

No Secrets Allowed by Kana Wu

No Secrets Allowed by Kana Wu

Rory and Peter’s love story continues in the wholesome drama No Secrets Allowed, the sequel to Kana Wu’s entertaining debut in the series, No Romance Allowed. While the plot is familiar, Wu offers a relatable tale of a couple struggling to adapt to a long-distance relationship, along with Peter’s struggles with his family and Rory’s loyalty to love. Peppered with intriguing dynamics of co-workers who threaten fidelity, and judgmental family members sowing doubt, there is palpable tension sustained throughout this compact novel. The main characters are loveable and endearing, if not saccharine at times, and Wu’s handling of […]

2021-04-22T07:11:07+02:00April 22nd, 2021|Categories: Editorial Reviews|
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