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Q&A with Laurel Anne Hill, author of The Engine Woman’s Light

by Guest Author | Jun 5, 2018 | Featured, Interviews

Q&A with Laurel Anne Hill Q. When writing The Engine Woman’s Light, how did you begin? Did the characters arise first, or the world? A. Two of the characters – the great-grandmother and the infant – arose first, in one of my dreams. The old woman...

How Do We Experience Stories Differently in Music, Poetry, Films, and Novels? by K.M. Ecke

by Guest Author | Apr 24, 2018 | Columns, Featured, Guest Posts

Storytelling is the most pervasive form of modern magic. Through the imagination we can transport ourselves through worlds we’ve made to show each other different sides of life. As a jack-of-all-trades creative, I have a unique viewpoint of the different mediums of...

Reckoning: Vietnam and America’s Cold War Experience, 1945-1991 by Neal F. Thompson

by Whitney Smyth | Apr 17, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Featured, History, Sponsored, War & Military

Neal F. Thompson’s Reckoning: Vietnam and America’s Cold War Experience, 1945-1991 is a complicated, yet well-researched work of nonfiction. At first glance, this 500 + page book can be overwhelming for many. However, Neal has broken things down nicely by framing the...

Getting Out Of My Own Way: Or Why I Don’t Believe in Writer’s Block by Nina Sadowsky

by Guest Author | Apr 10, 2018 | Columns, Featured, Writers on Writing

I sneered when I was first asked to be part of a panel on “Beating Writers’ Block” for last summer’s Thrillerfest, the annual New York-based conference of International Thrillers Writers. “Who has the luxury of Writers’ Block?” I fumed. “Try a deadline, that’ll cure...

Our Reviewers’ Favorite Romances

by Guest Author | Feb 9, 2018 | Columns, Featured, Romance, The Reader's Perspective

With the Valentines’ Day buzz flitting about, Portland Book Review decided to reach out to our reviewers and ask them if they’ve any romances in their favorite reads. So, here are a few romances (old and new) that warm our hearts: The Princess Bride by...

The Get and Give by Shannon Baker

by Guest Author | Aug 22, 2017 | Columns, Featured, Writers on Writing

I’ve noticed this magic that happens in the writing community. (It might not actually be magic, but in my world, there is a lot of magic. For instance, radio, television, Internet, telephones. How do they work? If you tried to explain it to me, you wouldn’t be the...