Penelope Ward

I began writing in early 2013 after discovering a love for reading in the new adult genre. As the mother of a severely autistic child, both reading and writing became a means of escape from the stresses of daily life. It was also a way to manifest the fantasies that had always run through my […]

PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY Profiles Warren Adler in “The Self-Publishing Pioneer: How an Early Adopter of the Model is Still Going Strong”

By Jennifer McCartney Warren Adler is best known as the author of The War of the Roses, the 1981 million-copy bestseller about a divorcing couple that became a blockbuster film starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. His latest release, Torture Man, comes 35 years after the publication of his first bestselling book. What readers likely […]

J Kim Wright

I write because I have stories to tell. As a shy young girl, I was afraid to talk to people, but I could write. I poured my heart onto paper, creating new worlds for myself and occasionally for my teachers who encouraged me to write more. Later, I became a lawyer who integrated peacemaking and […]

Jason Erik Lundberg

The writing bug hit me at seven years old, when I created a story about ninjas stealing my mother’s car, and it never really let go. Writing is the main thing that enables me to make sense of this weird world, and I often discover what or how I think about a given subject as […]

The Writer’s Dilemma: How Much Physical Description is Enough in the Characters We Create?

One of the imponderables of the fiction writing trade is just how much physical description is enough in order to fully flesh out a character’s identity. In years past many novels contained illustrations that purported to show images of the characters as conceived by the author. A prime example would be the work of Hablot Knight […]

Historical Novel Society Reviews Bestselling WWII Historical Thriller TARGET CHURCHILL

  Previous publications of Warren Adler (The War of the Roses) and James C. Humes (Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman) promise an educational and pleasurable read in this historical thriller, and it delivers. Target Churchill, set in the 1940s, has all the breathless pacing of a strong thriller, but adds historical accuracy and insights into the […]