Interview with Author Kim M. Watt Describe your writing process. Do you outline, plot and plan, or is your writing more organic? I’m a pantser from way back. I tend to start with a single snapshot of a scene, or sometimes even just a line, and build out from there. It was fine when I […]
MAX … ATTACKS by KATHI APPELT illustrated by Penelope Dullaghan Children’s Picture Book / Humor / Stories in Verse Publisher: Atheneum / Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Date of Publication: June 11, 2019 Number of Pages: 40 Scroll down for the giveaway! Fish and birds and lizards and socks…is there anything Max won’t attack? Watch your ankles […]
June is Audiobook Month. Let’s chat about our favorite narrators. Julie: So you probably know by now that Audiobook is pretty much my main way of reading these days. If at all. I fell in love with Audiobooks on my long commute in Houston and I still enjoy them with my shorter commute or lack […]
HITCHIN’ POST and the Tornado Twistin’ 4th of July Celebration by JULIE BARKER illustrated by Carolyn Altman Genre: Children’s Picture Book / Western / Fantasy Publisher: BookBaby Date of Publication: September 28, 2018 Number of Pages: 50 Scroll down for giveaway! Hitchin’ Post, the cowboy jackrabbit, is back with an all new adventure on the […]
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 […]