expectations

REVIEW: Dark of Night by Suzanne Brockmann

REVIEW: Dark of Night by Suzanne Brockmann

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Does an Author Have to Live It to Write It?

more animals This is the third in a three part series of what part the author plays in the marketing of a book. In the beginning of Crystal Hubbard’s book, Mr. Fix It, Hubbard’s heroine suffers a crisis of confidence. She is a romance writer but has stopped believing in love, let alone romance. Because(…)

Great Expectations

The Novel of Formation The novel of the same title by Charles Dickens is a bildungsroman, a novel of formation following a protagonist from childhood to maturity. In some cases, it might loosely be described as a coming of age story although it generally follows a protagonist from childhood to some significant period beyond adulthood.(…)