In her later years, my mother made her gift shopping a little easier by buying each family member a special book. If you know someone's interests, books make great presents. Here are my picks of some recently published books that you may not know about. All were written by women but will appeal to men as well. I have not only read but can recommend each of them. You may want to buy one or more not only as gifts but for your own reading pleasure! For crime story and police pro

During the past two weeks, I’ve been to three readings at bookstores. These events couldn’t have been more different from each other, but each was enjoyable and worthwhile and provided examples about how to handle my own upcoming debut launch just two weeks from now for my novel, Gina in the Floating World. The first author, Stephanie Gayle (Idyll Hands), has become an old hand at book launches after producing three books in three years. By now, she has a following for her my