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January 12, 2025
Where the Magic Happens
Being a grandfather can be magical — as long as you don’t end up in jail.
January 10, 2025
Who's Publishing What: My Mother's Boyfriends
The insightful, witty and often laugh-out-loud stories in Samantha Schoech's My Mother's Boyfriends: Stories are populated by angels, earthquakes, sibling complexity, love affairs gone bad and children left to figure it out on their own. Woven throughout is an abididing sympathy for the mess-ups, bad choices and missteps humans make despite their best intentions.
January 10, 2025
Who's Publishing What: If You'd Only Listen
How far are you prepared to go to save the life of someone you love? In If You'd Only Listen: A Medical Memoir of Gaslighting, Grit & Grace, Rosie Sorenson prevails over a medical system that seemed bent on defeating her and her husband.
January 10, 2025
It's Winter O'Clock in Texas
Now that I've recovered from my yearly disappointment in not having a white Christmas in East Texas (unless you count the massive accumulation of almond bark I ate), the time of year has finally arrived when we Texans occasionally have our winter-precip sensitivities triggered by the National Weather Service.
January 10, 2025
Who's Publishing What: Why Can't My Brother Be More Like My Cat?
Little girls absolutely love their cats. But when it comes to their brothers, they have two reactions: Either they adore them — or want to trade them for a more refined sibling, one who’s less embarrassing, more sympatico and well, more "cat-like."
January 06, 2025
She's Got My Number
According to statistics that must be true or I wouldn't have made them up, 87 percent of grandfathers couldn't pass a third-grade math test.
January 01, 2025
Humor Writer of the Month: Matt Schatz
Award-winning writer and composer Matt Schatz, the author of a humorous debut poetry collection, Shoes Last Longer in LA, is our Humor Writer of the Month for January.
January 01, 2025
Seeking a Few Rock Stars
We're looking for outstanding faculty and session ideas for the 2026 Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop. Proposals are due April 17.
December 30, 2024
Who's Publishing What: The Intuitive Author
Tiffany Yates Martin has written a survival manual for writers, The Intuitive Author: How to Grow and Sustain a Happier Writing Career.
December 30, 2024
Who's Publishing What: Trouble Island
Sharon Short's newest novel, Trouble Island, is generating considerable buzz, earning a spot on The New York Times' list of the best mystery and suspense novels for December.