News Between the Lines

April 8, 2026

When Fiction and Criminal News Entwine into a Figure Eight: Rex Heuermann, Gilgo Beach, and the Architecture of Violence – 4/8/26

The news this month that Rex Heuermann has pleaded guilty in the Gilgo Beach murders lands with a strange, vertiginous resonance for me. As a novelist […]
March 10, 2026

When Words Aren’t Enough: How Art Therapy Helped Me Craft More Resonant Stories

When I first entered art therapy, I was in the throes of editing a middle-grade novel about Lola, a 13-year-old girl navigating the loss of her […]
November 9, 2025

An Interview with Kimberly Behre Kenna

How does your teaching background influence your writing?  I’ve spent most of my adult life working with kids in one way or another. My teaching years […]
October 13, 2025

Author Event

Meet Sisters of Gavinville author John Warner Smith at the Louisiana Book Festival on November 1st.
July 13, 2025

Falafel, Pharaohs, and Fiction: My Lifelong Love Affair with Egypt

I am in love. Deeply, madly, crazy in love – with Egypt. It started when I was in high school, probably inspired by the arrival of […]
September 2, 2021

Gentleman of the Road: A Hitchhiking Memoir of the 1970s by Rollie Erickson

  Willow River Press is excited to announce the Fall 2022 release of Gentleman of the Road: A Hitchhiking Memoir of the 1970s by Rollie Erickson. Gentleman […]
June 16, 2021

Finding Persephone by PJ Braley

  Liminal Books is excited to announce the Spring release of Finding Persephone by PJ Braley, author of the The Fire Slayers. Finding Persephone follows Timaeus […]
June 16, 2021

What remains of Love by Suzanne Trauth

    Willow River Press is excited to announce the Spring release of What Remains of Love by Suzanne Trauth, author of the Dodie O’Dell Mystery Series. At the […]
February 7, 2021

The Creation of a World – Stephanie M. Allen

I remember the first night Isemay and Alena spoke to me. It was sometime between the hours of 9:00 and 10:00 pm. I had spent the […]
November 4, 2020

What Can You Do? – Pernell Plath Meier

Scared Yet? Don’t Be.   Vote: Generations of Americans have fought and died for the right to vote for those not initially enfranchised when this country […]
April 30, 2020

The journey of the One True Child

    JUST A DREAM All my life I have experienced very vivid dreams. When I was younger I used to wake up in the middle […]
February 21, 2020

Behind the scenes at Ward’s Pond – Heidi Sprouse

A few years ago, I was given a wonderful opportunity. I had a chance to have a book signing at a bed and breakfast on Ward’s […]