Denise Swanson

With dozens of books to her name, author Denise Swanson could be forgiven for easing up on the publishing pedal a bit. After all, her cozy mystery and romance novels have sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide, and her audience on Facebook and other social media has crossed the …

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Jesmyn Ward

Sometimes you read something that breaks your heart.  Yesterday Vanity Fair magazine published an essay by Jesmyn Ward, a writer and two-time National Book Award winner (for her novels Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburied, Sing), about her husband’s death earlier this year from Covid-19.  Jesmyn’s husband was just 33 …

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