Madeline Sharples's Blog

Our guest author today, Áine Greaney, writes about past and present, place and displacement, loss and hope in her book, Trespassers and Other Stories. She travels her characters from coastal Massachusetts to rural Ireland.   Áine has also provided us with her thoughts about writing in a wonderful guest post essay. Here’s Áine: Finding and […]

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Please welcome Barbara Barth on Choices today while on her WOW! Women on Writing book tour. This is her second time on Choices and we are thrilled to have her here. Her new book, Sleeping with Dogs: A Poetic Memoir is a poetic memoir on living with and loving rescue dogs. It is Barth’s first […]

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When I was a little girl, I went with my mom by bus to downtown Chicago when she needed a new pair of shoes. She always went to the same store – Joseph’s – and usually came out of that store carrying several boxes of shoes tied together so she could carry them easier. One […]

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Musician and author, Cliff Beach, is our Choices guest today. His new book, Side Hustle & Flow: Shape-Up!, is a guide to transforming your health and fitness journey: a book every one of us needs to read and follow. To that end Cliff has written a guest post for us about motivation and the need […]

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“Let me think clearly and brightly,” Sylvia Plath once wrote in her journal. “Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences.”  Turning grief into art has made me a much better and more recognized writer. In just the last three years I’ve had four poetry chapbooks published and I continue to write […]

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Jim Naremore’s new novel, American Still Life is about trauma and memorializing our loses – a perfect read for the many thousands of people going through those experiences as a result of the recent Los Angeles fires. Hopefully all affected will have time to read this important book, once they are on the road to […]

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Allie Nava was inspired to write July and Everything After after she survived the violent anti-minority massacres of 1970s Sri Lanka. It is a story  of  healing now on tour with WOW! Women on Writing. Allie has also written a guest post for us titled: “Being Overlooked or Ignored.” Her thoughts are very meaningful.   […]

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Please welcome Milana Marsenich, author  of Idaho Madams. What an interesting topic! You’ll get to know about the prostitute business from the 1850s to the 1980s and I guarantee you, you won’t want to put this book down. In addition Milana has written a guest post for us about the importance of towns in our […]

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Choices is so honored to host Kathie Giorgio and her new book Don’t Let Me Keep You. Kathie, a very accomplished author, brings us her story about motherhood and  her thoughts that children should follow their own paths. A very different approach from the way would-be feminists live their lives. Kathie has also written an […]

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Our guest today is Jen Payne, author of her new book, Sleeping with Ghosts: Poems & Musings. She is currently on her WOW! Women on Writing tour. Jen has also written four other books: LOOK UP! Musings on the Nature of Mindfulness, Evidence of Flossing: What We Leave Behind, Waiting Out the Storm, and Water […]

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