Euphoria by Lily King My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’m including this review I wrote for Goodreads here because really this is one of the best books I’ve read all year. In some ways reminiscent of Ann Patchett’s State of Wonder, Euphoria goes beyond that book in scope, cultural detail, character development, and sheer…

In celebration of the upcoming one-year anniversary of THIEVING FOREST, I’m giving away three copies on Goodreads. Hope you win! Goodreads Book Giveaway Thieving Forest by Martha Conway Giveaway ends July 28, 2015. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway

IT MAY BE SURPRISING that one true thing in my novel Thieving Forest is the plethora of sisters in one family. I grew up with six sisters—yes, seven girls in all—and no brothers. When writing Thieving Forest I condensed the number to five, since I thought seven would be just too many for a reader…

WHEN MY FIRST NOVEL, 12 BLISS STREET, came out, my editor at St. Martin’s urged me to visit as many bookstores as possible—although she also told me that since there was no marketing or publicity budget for my book, it would have to be on my own dime. Eager to make my book a success,…

LAURA FRASER is the Editorial Director and co-founder of shebooks.net, which publishes short e-books by and for women. Last month shebooks launched a Kickstarter campaign to build a fund to pay for women writers. I learned about this campaign just this week via twitter (and immediately contributed), and asked Laura if she would answer a few questions…