The Liberation of Jane Carter: A Novel by Carol Hoenig She was taught to endure. Her daughter teaches her to dream. In the early 1900s, fifteen-year-old Jane Carter is forced from the harsh mining settlements of Upstate New York into a marriage her family believes will save her from poverty and danger. Instead, she finds herself trapped in a different kind of hardship. While her husband dreams of expanding his farm, Jane is expected to bear children who will become little more than unpaid...

September is already underway, but there’s still plenty happening at Sibyl Writing Craft. Whether you want to bring more creativity to your teaching, sharpen your dialogue, transform lived experience into compelling memoir, get your book onto bookstore and library shelves, or simply make more room for your writing, the second half of September offers plenty of ways to keep moving forward. SEE THE FULL LIST OF FALL WORKSHOPS Here’s what’s coming up: This Wednesday! Reserve your spot today!...

Whalespeak: A Novel by Liz Collins Told from above and below the ocean's surface... When forty-one humpback whales mysteriously strand themselves on the New Jersey coast, Gaelic singer and long-distance swimmer Sloane Murphy recognizes one of them immediately. The scar above his eye belongs to a whale she has known since surviving a devastating boating accident years before. As he struggles to stay alive, Sloane realizes he is trying to communicate a desperate warning—and she is the only...