What do we deserve from life, how far will we go to feel accepted, and whose rubric gets to measure our value? These are the very universal, very human quandaries […]
Becoming Sarah
Author: Diane BotnickMany people associate the name Auschwitz with death and despair. But life also occurred at the place of horror. Diane Botnick based her novel on one of the few babies […]
That Which Binds Us
Author: Cathy RiggClearly, Cathy Rigg loves the rugged Appalachian Mountains of southwestern Virginia where her family ties go back seven generations. The four narrators of this beautifully written Civil War-era novel—Rigg’s debut—feel […]
Pennsylvania Love Song
Author: Nancy Hayes KilgoreDuring the Thanksgiving season of 1955, this engaging story of three generations of women opens in a prologue with Nancy, the book’s author, eight years old, riding in the back […]
Fan Base
Author: Jane HartsockFan Base is a timely work of fiction that could easily become a person’s reality and has undoubtedly occurred many times. Online platforms and the incursion of social media into […]
An Interview with Ann Bancroft
Author: Ann BancroftAuthor of Almost Family, 2024 Sarton Winner in Contemporary Fiction It’s fiction and not autobiographical, but Almost Family, Ann Bancroft’s winning novel in which a fictional character is suffering from stage […]







