Author Interview At what point did you decide to be an author and what was your path to publication? I decided to be an author when I was 19 yo. Unfortunately, I liked food and central heating so I went to my fallback position with a career in medicine. I never lost that desire […]
Here at Chapter Break, we don’t always write a full review of every book we read. Well, now we decided to do these monthly wrap-up posts with roundups of our reviews this month and mini-reviews to fill in the gaps. Enjoy! This is a fabulous book written by a fun mom who knows how […]
Guest Post: Danielle Ledezma Share the first sentence of the book and comment on it “The plane descended over the ocean, a deep, gorgeous blue fading into a turquoise hue as it neared the shoreline.” There is something emotional about the ocean. Whether standing at the point where it breaks upon a shore, or seeing it’s […]
Guest Post: Behind the Scenes: Writing the Cookbook One thing people (hopefully) won’t realize in reading the book is that I did not have a lot of time to write it! I think we finalized the deal with Sterling Publishing in late November, and the due date to have a draft of the manuscript submitted […]
We’re starting a new feature here on Chapter Break called Chat About Covers. ‘Cause you know we all judge books by covers, whether we admit it or not. We judge the style, the color and font choices, and just the overall look. That might not keep us from reading the book, but we do […]
Julie’s Review: I am a huge fan of this type of urban fantasy adventure stories. Something terrible and scary is happening, and the police department turns to the paranormal investigator for help. But this trouble is so much bigger than Cassie expected. We have unknown beasties, more magic than the town knew existed, and very […]
Here at Chapter Break, we don’t always write a full review of every book we read. Well, now we decided to do these monthly wrap-up posts with roundups of our reviews this month and mini-reviews to fill in the gaps. Enjoy! I received this book complimentary as part of a tour. “The Struggle is […]
We here at Chapter Break are fans of the library. While we love to own and hoard err COLLECT our books, we love to support the local library because the library supports everyone in reading. Here are some reasons why we both love the library. Free books for those of us who devoured books each […]
Julie’s Review: I really enjoyed the world-building in Going Down in Flames. The notion of dragons and their individual clans is really interesting. There are dragons of various colors, and each color dragon has a special breath weapon. Red dragons breathe fire, as expected, but then there are blue dragons who breathe ice! There’s […]
Chapter Break Book Blog with Karen Thurm Safran, author of the new parenting book, Parenting—Let’s Make a Game of It At what point did you decide to be an author and what was your path to publication? Ever since I was a little girl, I wanted to be an author. I […]