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Allison Janda The Numbers Game by Allison Janda

To Publish or to Self-Publish?

April 27, 2016December 9, 2018

The following is a guest post by Allison Janda, author of The Numbers Game, a Jack Crawford Mystery. How did you make the decision to self-publish? This is a question that I’m asked a lot. Seeing as how I’ve self-published seven books now, I sure as heck feel as if I know a few things about the topic. I thought I’d share them with you, here. Here’s the bottom line. I…

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Audrey Niffenegger Ghostly by Audrey Niffenegger

Ghostly by Audrey Niffenegger

November 19, 2015December 9, 2018

Ghostly is an anthology of 16 ghost stories, edited, introduced and illustrated by Audrey Niffenegger.  In the introduction, the author says the stories are about “haunted houses, lovers, children and cats”, and this about sums up the subject of the tales in this book. My favorite is “Honeysuckle Cottage” by P.G. Wodehouse where a mystery writer inherits a house from his aunt, a romance author, and strange things straight out…

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Guest Post A Free, Unsullied Land by Maggie Kast

Art with a Beat: the Freedom Principle

November 16, 2015April 12, 2019

The following is a guest post by Maggie Kast, author of A Free, Unsullied Land. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. I enter Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art and am surprised by the beat of tapping feet four floors above, as dancers from the Chicago Human Rhythm Project perform on a stage built from discarded public school desks and…

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Cheryl Hollon Pane and Suffering by Cheryl Hollon

Art Inspires Art – Filling the Well

November 3, 2015December 9, 2018

The following is a guest post by Cheryl Hollon, author of Pane and Suffering. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. Writing for me is exhilarating and at the same time exhausting. I tend to push very hard for several weeks near the deadline for turning a book over to my publisher. That means up to a sixteen-hour a day…

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Guest Post Not in the Pink by Tina Martel

Not in the Pink

August 11, 2015December 9, 2018

The following is a guest post by Tina Martel, author of Not in the Pink. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com I am a visual artist who accidently wrote a book. I never meant to write one. It just happened. I was diagnosed with Stage Two B Breast Cancer in 2011. My entire life changed in a heartbeat….

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Guest Post A Zany Slice of Italy by Ivanka Di Felice

A Zany Slice of Italy by Ivanka Di Felice

June 27, 2015December 9, 2018

The following is a guest post by Ivanka Di Felice, author of A Zany Slice of Italy. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. Book Description This light, lively book takes place in Italy, with hilarious anecdotes about the author and her husband’s trip to visit his family in Abruzzo and finally their escape to Tuscany. Ivanka Di Felice’s…

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Elizabeth Berg The Dream Lover by Elizabeth Berg

The Dream Lover by Elizabeth Berg

May 22, 2015December 9, 2018

The Dream Lover is a historical fiction based on George Sand’s life. The French author had a very unusual life marred by tragedy and heartbreak, but also full of love and art. She was ahead of her time, a free spirit who didn’t shy away from leaving her husband or wearing trousers. In addition, she was a very successful writer and rubbed elbows with brilliant artists, including Honore de Balzac,…

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David Downie A Passion for Paris by David Downie

A Passion for Paris by David Downie

April 9, 2015December 9, 2018

A Passion for Paris by David Downie takes us on a tour of Paris from the Père-Lachaise Cemetery to Montmartre. Instead of writing about the famous American expatriates of the 1920s, the author chose to shed light on the Romantics of the 19th century: Félix Nadar, Victor Hugo, Charles Beaudelaire, Honoré de Balzac, George Sand, Eugène Delacroix, Alexandre Dumas, Émile Zola, etc. David Downie guides us through the City of Light to…

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Graphic novel Will and Whit - Laura Lee Gulledge

Will & Whit by Laura Lee Gulledge

May 7, 2014January 9, 2018

Will is 17 and a regular teenager, except for the fact that she lost her parents a year ago. She lives with her aunt, Elsie, and helps her run the family business, a quaint antique store. She’s very creative and loves to make lamps with bits and pieces she finds in the store. In fact, it helps keep the dark at bay after the tragedy. At the beginning of the book,…

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