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Author Confessions: Amanda Eyre Ward (opens the original)
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I picked up Amanda Eyre Ward’s The Jetsetters in a hotel lobby. Someone had left it behind, and since I wasn’t enjoying the novel I brought, I picked it up. I found myself engrossed in the dysfunctional family I found in its pages and LOVED it. So I was thrilled when I heard that Amanda brought these quirky characters back in her latest Arrivals and Departures. I invited Amanda to come chat with us about her late
Summer Notebooks #2 (opens the original)
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First, welcome to all of the new subscribers. You’re going to enjoy all of the book talk and travel tidbits around here. Also, we kinda worship summer. Welcome!!Maybe I’ve said it before, but I feel the need to dig my feet in the sand when visiting all of the beach towns I love every summer. This past weekend, I had the awful punishment (wink, wink) of bringing my daughter to camp in Maine. My mom tagged along with my 11-year-old and me, and we centered our time in Kennebunkport, one of the pret
Summer of Second Chances (opens the original)
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I’ve always loved the idea of a do over, and writing articles and books may be one of the only gigs that you’re consistently given an opportunity for a redo. For one, when you’re constructing your novel, revision gives you a chance to completely rework your story for years. When you publish a hardcover book, you’re gifted a second chance when your paperback comes out. That day is today. The paperback for my latest novel <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Our-Last-Vineyard-Summer/Bro
Author Confessions: Catherine Steadman (opens the original)
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My older sister, Erin, is a psychological thriller junkie when it comes to books. There isn’t a true crime podcast she hasn’t listened to, and after reading Catherine Steadman’s Something in the Water a few years back, she called me straight away. “You have to read it,” she pleaded. “You’re going to love it. It’s just so…unputdownable.”Something in the Water was the first book I
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