Once and Future Authors

Heather Siegel is the author of the award-winning, coming-of-age memoir, OUT FROM THE UNDERWORLD (Finalist in Foreword Review's 2016 INDIES Book of Year Award). Her newest work, THE KING & THE QUIRKY: A Memoir of Love, Marriage, Domesticity, Feminism, and Self is due out April 2020, and was named a semifinalist the Kore Press 2018 Memoir Award. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Salon.com...

Angela Reich, Ph. D in Literature: Author, Educator, Researcher, the historical fiction SHIPWRECK OF HOPES is her first novel. Reich serves as Docent for the Historic Fire Island Lighthouse, and sails the historic Oyster Sloop Priscilla for the Long Island Maritime Museum. Meticulously researched, SHIPWRECK OF HOPES sweeps the reader from a desolate Fire Island beach in New York to war-ravaged Ita...

Carol Hoenig is a fulltime freelance writer and publishing consultant. Her novel, WITHOUT GRACE, (Star iUniverse) was awarded the Silver Medal for Book of the Year 2005 by ForeWord Magazine and given First Place for Fiction by the DIY Book Festival. Jada Press and the New York Book Festival also gave her novel honorable mention. Her book THE AUTHOR’S GUIDE TO PLANNING BOOK EVENTS (Star iUniverse)...

WILLIAM J. McGEE was born in New York City and received an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University. Among other pursuits, he teaches undergraduate and graduate Creative Writing; represents travelers as a consumer advocate in Washington; and is an award-winning investigative journalist and columnist. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of Consumer Reports Travel Letter and currently contributes to Con...

Police Officers are the modern-day embodiment of medieval knights, going to work each day with a noble cause to protect and serve society. The profession requires cops to see people at their worst. Coping becomes an essential component of a police officer’s arsenal. One of the primary coping mechanisms utilized by cops is humor. A cop can find something funny about almost anything, regardless of h...

Paul has written many books and is hard at work on his next work. Working with multiple story threads - and ensuring that they are progressing at the same pace and reach their climactic moments together - is a writing technique Paul has embraced. he shares his methods here with us, so that we too can utilize this page-turning technique.

Writing a book is an adventure of a lifetime. But wouldn't it be nice if people actually READ your book as well? You've been SO busy with the writing, editing and publishing of your book that marketing was a complete afterthought, but what now? Did you completely miss the boat? Or are there things you can do DO after the fact?

In today's episode we interview the author of "Amia: An Ongoing Crime (extended edition)," Alberto Zuppi. "AMIA" is recounts the terrorist attack in 1994 that was made against Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, or AMIA, the most influential Jewish philanthropic organization in Argentina. Appearances are often deceiving, and while it appeared that the Argentine government was launching a thorou...

Kindle Unlimited - or KU - can be a boom or a bust for readers and authors alike. What is it, and is it worth it? Stephanie explored the pros and cons to help you to decide if KU is right for you.

This book is a compilation of inspirational, engaging and funny stories from Valentina and many others who received the "pink slip" or experienced another major life change, but came out on the other side better and brighter for it. Readers will see themselves and their struggles through these stories and know that their own journeys - though chaotic - can have the same positive results.