Molly Greeley first read Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice when she was 10. She’s re-read it multiple times since — and has now written her own Jane Austen-inspired novel, The Clergyman’s ...
Kath Usitalo
Kath Usitalo’s love for the U.P. is apparent in her new book, Secret Upper Peninsula: The Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure. The Naubinway writer (“it’s at the northernmost part of Lake Michigan”) ...
Laura Knight Cobb, an elementary school teacher, poet, writer and lyricist, has just released The Lesson of the Lark, historical fiction aimed at 10- to 16-year-olds. It commemorates the centennial of the ...
By Jodee Taylor
Charlie Cutter grew up an only child with an English teacher for a mother. So he read. And he read really good books.
“My mother had me read all these classics like Dickens, Homer and ...
By
Molly Stadler
“Carolyn
Lewis’s short stories demand to be read,” says Stephen Lewis, and he’s not just
saying that because he was her husband but as a writer himself, who knows what
he is talking ...
By Molly Stadler
As an atheist and a pacifist, it
seems odd that law professor and author Dennis Turner would write about nuns
during World War Two. But What Did You Do
in the War, Sister? How Belgian ...
By
Molly Stadler
Charles R. Eisendrath is tall, dark, handsome, smart, and
successful—and, yes, he told me to write all of that.
As a young intern for the National Writers Series, I was
kind of nervous ...
Heather Shumaker Seeks to Inspire
By Molly Stadler
Heather Shumaker writes for the children, the next and newest generation of readers and writers. The books they are reading have an enormous impact on their ...
By Anna Faller
For most of us, the
paranormal is pretend. Our childhood monsters have met their makers, and the
world of spirits is purely storybook. But, local author Jacki Erickson, J.R.
Erickson to her ...
An Interview with Kathleen Stocking
By Molly Stadler
"Missing are the village elders and seers the astute perceivers who interpreted life and effort through nature and the primal cycles from which the bulk of the ...
What does a 12-year-old ask for when offered anything in the world? If that 12-year-old is bestselling author Tanya Anne Crosby, the answer is, her father’s typewriter. We’ve caught up with Tanya to discuss ...
By Molly Stadler
Leelanau by Kayak is the perfect book to flip through
while lounging on the sofa in the living room of your northern Michigan
cottage, and dreaming of your next watery adventure. That’s just how ...