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2 January 2012

New Year’s Resolutions for Writers

by Nicole Starczak, SBWC Director Read more. The average adult reads 3 to 4 books per year, which is less than one book each season. But we are writers, so how about a modest goal two books per month? That’s … Continue reading →

20 November 2011

Jackie Collins Remembered at SBWC in Vanity Fair

How fun it was to read the SBWC mention in the recent Vanity Fair Special Edition this morning. There I was with my ham and cheese sandwich and a cup of green tea, flipping through the Sex and Scandal issue, … Continue reading →

The Big Town

February 2011. "The Big Town" is a novel of the Jazz Age in the summer before the stock market crash of 1929. It's the story of a failed businessman whose dreams of prosperity hinge on the secret proposition of a millionaire industrialist and a dangerous relationship he finds with a poor orphan girl chasing love in the great American metropolis.

The Last Rose of Summer

With the Great Depression looming and about to define America's next decade, three strong-minded women related by marriage form an uneasy household in the summer of 1929. Forced by her husband Harry to uproot their two small children from Illinois and take up residence in East Texas, Marie Hennessey struggles to find a place not only within her mother-in-law's home but in a Southern town whose troubling unfamiliarities compound her marital woes and homesickness. [Read More]

This Side of Jordan

Monte Schulz's prose novel opens in the spring of 1929, as the 19-year-old consumptive farm boy Alvin Pendergast attends an ill-fated dance marathon he's too sickly to participate in. After a year of his life has been stolen by a sanitarium, Alvin knows he's relapsing, and dreads not only the drudgery of his family's homestead, but a return to the hospital. In this state of mind, an invitation for a late-night slice of pie is too seductive to pass up and before he knows it, Alvin crosses the Mississippi River and finds himself working for a slick con artist named Chester Burke. [Read More]