Sometimes, putting words on paper—seems easy enough, right—becomes a tortuous exercise in rhythm, not unlike lyrics to a song. You know what you want to say’ you know how you want it to feel, yet the words just do not emerge in […]
The Books & Pieces Magazine Short Story Contest received close to one hundred fifty entries, reviewed by our judges, and their final decisions will be made shortly. Winners will be notified by email before the website announcement on Monday, May 23rd. We’d […]
This is the FINAL DAY to get your entries in for our Short Story Contest. The contest ends TODAY, May 15th, at 11:59 pm (MST). We’ve received entries from many places around the world. Don’t let that deter you. Our judges are looking for great […]
Think outside the box, the book box that is. If you look at sales statistics you will find that audiobooks account for almost a third of all book sales, surpassed by e-books, with print in third place. This would not surprise you. […]
Dear Reader, In trying to ensure that Books & Pieces Magazine is more than just a conduit for stories and interviews, I would like to know what YOU would like to see in the magazine. Please share by email William (at) BooksNPieces.com or in […]
The dull pain in her thigh was a reminder. It would always be so, and the memory of that grilling at the hospital would never leave the child’s memory portion of her brain. Today, the hospital memory came back for another go-round […]
Creative Edge Publicity is pleased to announce winners for the 2022 Global Book Awards for Self-Published Authors (https://globalbookawards.com) Gold Winners: •Jen Nash, The Big Power of Tiny Connections Winner in the Business Communication Skills Category •Jen Lieberman, Year Of […]
Paparazzi elbowed their way past CNN talking heads as media from around the world made camp on the plaza. Fans, young and old, T-shirt vendors, street singers, mime artists, and pickpockets crowded La Scala Square, and the Piazza del Duomo. Helicopters circled, […]
Guyanese-Canadian author NATASHA DEEN has published over thirty works for kids, teens, and adults, in a variety of genres and for a variety of readerships. Her works include the Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection Thicker than Water, Guardian which was a […]
Writers often believe that more words equate to a better story. Heminway proved them wrong. He wrote a 6 word, evocative short story. “FOR SALE: Baby shoes. Never worn.” You have to admit that it is concise, precise, and pulls out all […]
Whether it’s the last few sentences of a chapter or the grand finale of a book, endings are crucial. I have been in a book club for 26 years and have learned a lot from our book discussions. Readers will forgive slow […]
The Power of Realistic Fiction: My Dinner at the Hotel & Restaurant Montegrino, Tivat, Montenegro. by William Gensburger As a writer, I believe it is my job to convey as much reality as possible in the settings and characters of what I […]
American Dirt (Flatiron Books, 2020, 387 pages, hardcover, $16.75) by Jeanine Cummins is the story of a middle-class Mexican woman, Lydia, and her 8-year-old son, Luca, whose lives are torn apart during a quinceañera party. Lydia’s husband, Sebastian, a newspaper reporter, had […]
August 1994 Jane’s horse soared as Lance’s descended: she was perched atop a decorous gray with a blue saddle and a spray of pink roses cupping the horn, while he sat astride a fading black with a faintly ferocious expression. Her hair […]
Sarah Kades writes action-adventure romantic eco-thrillers. Her alternate pen name, Sarah Graham writes non-fiction largely. For twenty years her day job had been as an archaeologist and Indigenous Knowledge studies and engagement facilitator until 2020 when she received her first literary arts […]
An exciting issue filled with interviews with Sarah Kades and Natasha Deen, bestselling authors, articles from Jill Hedgecock and William Gensburger, Short Stories from Linda McMullen, PA Farrell, DC Diamondopolous, Books Ends Book Book Review, and ScribblesWorth’s Book Review, Recipes and more. […]
For the average writer, one of the things to get used to is the rejection process. There’s no escaping it—everyone gets rejected, both in writing and in life. And no one says you have to like it. That said, writers are a […]
We’re pleased to announce that from now on each issue will also be available in print (8″ x 10″)(203 x 254 mm) in full color. It is priced US $8.99 on Amazon (slightly above the cost to produce it) and you can […]
One of life’s little lessons is the fact that you cannot go home again. By that, I mean that home is now elusive, a period in time cemented firmly in your memory, vivid and fresh as it was back then. As the […]
