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One mom's tips for creating adventures through reading

There was a time when holidays were a highlight of my year, something I counted down to with excitement for weeks in advance. However, that was pre-kids. Now as a mum, holidays creep up on me like a third glass of wine. I have four kids under the...

Liz Maverick on classic romantic fantasies

We recently partnered with Serial Box to bring you Royally Yours, a six-part feel-good serial inspired by the upcoming Royal Wedding. First up? Liz Maverick’s The Paparazzo and the Queen’s Guard. Here’s a sneak peek! *** There’s something delicious about a commoner becoming a princess. It’s one...

Festival season: five songs and their literary match

April is usually the month of non-stop rain (please stop raining), Easter, and for some, impatiently waiting for the summer sun. For others, it’s the beginning of something else: music festival season. It starts slowly – one day you see your friends tweeting about ticket prices; then...

Books for people with short attention spans

As a bookworm, it brings me great grief to say, my friends have a hard time paying attention. At least to books anyway. There are so many other things they could do. They can stream any song in the history of the world for just $10 a...

Paris by the book: Edith de Belleville's literary tours of Paris

Edith de Belleville has turned a love of books, literature, art, and a passion for Paris into an unlikely second career. Her name is not actually Mademoiselle de Belleville, it is her nom de…well, not plume. Nom de journée? A lawyer by another name by day, Edith...

Author Interviews

Vivica A. Fox: storyteller, leader, hustler

Follow The Reader is our series featuring unconventional leaders and trailblazers. “The way I speak might be street, but I’m sweet.” That’s Vivica A. Fox in a nutshell.I recently sat down with the ultra-down-to-earth Hollywood star ahead of the launch of her new book, Every Day I'm Hustling...

Three books to boost your career

It’s hard to be inspired when it takes 15-minutes to dig the car out of the driveway or the temperature sinks lower than your spirits. It’s equally hard to really get down to work in the first days of summer, when the patio is practically screaming your name...

Big Ideas in Books

Can you really read your way to better financial decisions?

A fresh view of personal finances and budgeting from Shannon Lee Simmons, author of Worry-Free Money.

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On the move: audiobooks for athletes

While many readers turn to audiobooks for long drives or while relaxing or doing chores at home, athletes are using audiobooks for something else entirely.

Author Interviews

Writing the better version of what you know

Write what you know was the first piece of ‘writer advice’ I found when I was first starting out. And I kind of threw it away when I started telling stories. Or I thought I did. One of my first paid fiction pieces was a story for...

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