Tag: authors
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Top Historical Fiction Picks May 2025
This post first appeared on PaperLanternWriters.com Are you fascinated by writing in the past? Does your story demand a historical setting? Do you wonder how to bring antiquity to life? To meet the weighty challenge of writing historical fiction and enliven your plot, characters, setting, and story, pick up Crafting Stories from the Past from…
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Q & A On Reading
Since December of 1919, Paper Lantern Writers has been publishing blog posts. One of the features is a question and answer blog, designed to help readers get to know the Paper Lantern Writers. Over the years, I have answered many of those questions, and I’d like to share some of those with you. This month,…
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Have a Great Book Signing
I love in-person events like book signings. It’s an opportunity to engage directly with my readers (or potential readers) and see what it is about my novels that appeals to them, that gets them excited enough to buy the book. Every time I do a signing, though, I take some time to prepare, Here are…
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On Winning Awards
No author I’ve ever spoken to writes because they might win an award. I’ve also never heard a reader admit they choose books to read because of an award its won. Librarians and booksellers say, though, that award stickers on the cover do influence what books people pick up. I don’t know the truth of…