Peter Heller’s newest novel, The Painter,is about a tormented painter attempting to escape his violent urges and past in rural CO. The setting for his rural home is based on Peter Heller’s home in Paonia, CO which was built with the help of neighbors, friends and landscape inspiration.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie author of, Americanah, is a finalist for the 2014 Andrew Carnegie Excellence in Fiction Award. Americanah, follows the journey of two young Nigerian people as they adapt to foreign countries. Their lives take them back to Nigeria where they reconnect and find themselves in their roots. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has earned a multitude of praise and is set to become a movie starring Lupita Nyong’o.
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Many people attempt to break in to the literary world, but few are able to break into the industry. Whether your goals are to make writing into a vocation, or write to tickle your creativity, Jamie Ford gives his two cents on how to become an author in this article. In another interview, Jamie Ford describes his own writing process and journey from start to finish his novels.
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Garth Stein’s, How Evan Broke his Head, was recently re-launched for its 10th anniversary, an event that was recently highlighted in the Seattle Times.
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Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, took time from her busy schedule to speak about animal experiments.
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Sonia Taitz takes a moment to answer questions on her transition from lawyer to author and her upcoming novel, Down Under. She explains the difference in writing her memoir, The Watchmakers Daughter, to writing her first novel, In the King’s Arms, and how both formats allow her to tell a story with a different process.
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Jamie Ford was interviewed, on an online radio program, recently about both his published books, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and Songs of Willow Frost, as well as the upcoming novel he’s working on. Jamie Ford discusses how his love of reading started with comic books and that as a child he had a passion for telling stories. He explains the importance in enjoying what he is writing and that is how he knows it works.
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As the number of children crossing the border alone increases dramatically, Sonia Nazario has been discussing the reasons they travel into the US. She explains the situation in Central America is filled with gang violence and threats of murder which is causing the wave of children crossing the border to surge.
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Michael Hingson, author of Thunder Dog, blogged advice to parents of blind children. Michael drew from his own parent’s experience, of denying doctor advice and instead treating him as any child, allowing him to make mistakes, explore and believe he can accomplish anything. It’s his confidence in himself that has allowed him to persevere through the September 11th attacks and escape the World Trade Center with his dog.
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Anthony Marra author of, A Constellation of a Vital Phenomena: A Novel, was recently announced as the 2014 Adult Debut Book of the Year by the Indies Choice Book Awards. A Constellation of a Vital Phenomena, is set in contemporary Chechnya, and follows three people as their pasts are revealed and the power of love is presented.
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