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Nov 5, 2024 | 
chireviewofbooks.com | Greer Macallister
Lynda Cohen Loigman’s books span a variety of eras and locations—from 1960s Brooklyn to WWI-era Massachusetts—but can always be counted on for warm, intimate stories of families reckoning with emotion, expectation, and change. Her vivid historical settings leap to life along with her unforgettable characters.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
writerunboxed.com | Greer Macallister
Many years ago, as a writer fresh out of grad school, I was precious with my ideas. After each new idea I had for a book, I worried it would be the last good idea I ever had. I swore friends to secrecy before I would even tell them what I was working on; when I found out a friend had shared the manuscript of my first unpublished novel with a mutual friend, I was furious.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
shewrites.com | Greer Macallister
Guest Post by Greer MacallisterGreer Macallister, a celebrated author of historical fiction, dives into the intricate world of biographical novels, showing that they have the power to resurrect the overlooked stories of remarkable women from history and gives us a peek into her newest novel The Thirteenth Husband.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
historicalnovelsociety.org | Byzantine Empire |Bywater Books |Lara Byrne |Greer Macallister
“It turned out that no matter how low my expectations of marriage, I expected too much.” Such is the perspective of Amy Crocker, a Gilded Age debutante left fabulously wealthy by the death of her magnate father. On the night of her father’s death, she’s visited by the Woman in White, a specter who portends death. Amy’s life is full of portents — a fortune teller warns her to be careful of marrying, noting that her thirteenth husband will bury her.
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May 30, 2024 | 
chireviewofbooks.com | Greer Macallister
Every author brings talents from their other pursuits to their fiction, and in Lisa Barr’s case, her passion for journalism shines through. Her first three published novels—Fugitive Colors, The Unbreakables, and Woman on Fire—take place in different time periods and address different subjects, but they all display a thoroughness and an eye for carefully selected detail that honor Barr’s career in journalism alongside her talent for creating memorable characters.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
writerunboxed.com | Greer Macallister
When publishing a writing advice post on April Fool’s Day, the obvious temptation is to make the whole thing about fools or foolishness, playing on the theme of the day. I’m not going to do that. Fooled you! Yes, I am. Heh. Anyway, I was thinking about giving writers advice on how not to be foolish.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
writerunboxed.com | Greer Macallister
For many years I’ve been up on a soapbox about how well-worn writing rules (“Show, don’t tell!” “Write every day!”) don’t work for everyone. But only recently did I realize I’ve been doing myself a bit of a disservice rejecting well-worn rules in my personal life. Here’s an example. Like many of us whose formative years overlapped with the Aerobics Age of the 1980s, I’ve had at least one ear tuned to diet advice for several decades.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
chireviewofbooks.com | Greer Macallister
Bestselling Canadian author Karma Brown never shies away from tackling hard topics. Her first novel, Come Away with Me, was a fascinating portrait of a woman dealing with unspeakable loss; subsequent novels have addressed infertility, gestational surrogacy, all-consuming guilt, the dark side of 1950s ideals, and other ethical and moral quandaries. Her gift is to wrap these issues in compelling, momentum-packed narratives that keep you turning pages late into the night.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
writerunboxed.com | Greer Macallister
Like most other writers here at Writer Unboxed, I treasure the writing community we’ve built online. And like a subset of those writers, I’ll be spending this week in Salem, Massachusetts, enjoying the company of that community in person at the Writer Unboxed UnConference. I consider having a writing community one of the absolute non-negotiables of writing and publishing happily long-term — you don’t have to have an in-person community, but you need to have some kind of community, period.
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
writerunboxed.com | Greer Macallister
There are thousands of posts out there, including a few written by yours truly, on how to market your book. Marketing isn’t a dirty word; it’s just the process of helping people who might want to read your book find your book. There are already more books in the world than any of us could possibly read, with more published every day. So anything you can do to get your book visibility, to make readers aware that it’s out there, that’s a necessary part of the process.
