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May/June 2018 PrintFREE Subscription Is Coming See Inside for Details! SHORT STORIES | INTERVIEWS | ARTICLES for Writers and Readers Everywhere www.BooksNPieces.com Steena Holmes USA Today & NY Times Bestselleing Author On Finding Indie Success Idaho Authors ALSO Writer INTERVIEWS with The Fastest growing state has no shortage of bestselling Sarah L. Johnson authors. In the next few years, MIranda Oh expect a boom in local culture. Check out what Idaho offers and A.C. Salter meet the authors you should Short STories by know................. See page 3 Jay Seate, Charles Hitchcock Book Reviews by Jill Hedgecock Page One featuring Mike Wells, Bestselling Author BIG WORDS Cover Design promos • • JOIN OUR MAILING LIST Bookshelf • visual challenge See Inside For Details Books ‘N Pieces Magazine | May /June 2018 | www.BooksNPieces.com Fresh Ink: From the Publisher HAPPY FIRST Contents BIRTHDAY! Idaho News: / Pg. 3 IDAHO LOCAL: Meet Megan e’re celebrating our FIRST 8.5” x 11” glossy magazine format, YEAR! Time flies. This past running, ultimately at 40-50 pages Bryant & Brenda Stanley/ Pg. 4 Wyear we have had many (although this issue is shorter.) It will Interview: Steena Holmes/ Pg. 5 wonderful interviews, including the be distributed to physical locations very notable science fiction author, through S. Idaho area (10,000 copies), Short Story: About Next Door Robert J. Sawyer [Dec 2017 issue]. and will also be available from select by Jay Seate/ Pg. 7 When we began, B&P Magazine was distributors in other parts of Idaho, intended to be a magazine of short and the country. Interview: Sarah L. Johnson/ stories and information for writers. People in other areas of the coun- Along the way we have expanded try/world (we have many readers in Pg. 8 to include items of interest for both the United Kingdom and Australia,) Short Story: One Stormy Night readers and writers alike. can subscribe to receive a print copy Now, in our second year, we are in the mail. by Charles Hitchcock/ Pg. 10 expanding even more, adding new Inasmuch as people claim that print The Review’s In by Jill columns, new features, including is dead, it has been my experience local Idaho features––since we are an that print continues to live, perhaps Hedgecock/Pg.15 Idaho-based publication. In order to not as vibrant as it once was, but pres- Challenge: grow, we need to include advertising, ent, nonetheless. Pareidolia anyone?/ and in order to have a viable product, In this issue we have FOUR inter- Pg.16 we need focused content. views in this issue, TWO short stories, Having local content to the Boise, and a whole lot of articles, columns Paying Markets for Idaho area means that advertising can and other features that I hope you will Writers by Erica Verrillo/ Pg. 17 be targeted, allowing a print edition enjoy. I would appreciate your feed- to happen. The print version, which back: what you enjoy, what you can do Big Words: Vocabulary to use/ will begin with this issue, will be an without, what you would like to see? Pg. 19 Also, how do you feel about a print Books ‘N Pieces Magazine version? Which would you prefer? Interview: Miranda Oh/ Pg. 20 May/June 2018 Issue I’d also like to ask a favor: if you ©2018 Misterwriter LLC read any of the books listed in this Interview: A.C. Salter/ Pg. 22 P.O. 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Alt Publish/Misterwriter LLC. www.BooksNPieces.com -2- Books ‘N Pieces Magazine | May /June 2018 | www.BooksNPieces.com Vardis Fisher was born in Annis, the Year (three times), Inspirational Idaho Idaho, penning a guide to the state Readers’ Choice, and Romantic Times News and a 12-part series, “Testament Reviewers’ Choice. We are an Idaho-based company, of Man,” from cabin by Thousand Read more at https:// and that’s great news if you consider Springs. His gritty account of fur-trade brandilyncollins.ditdat.com. that Idaho is the fastest growing trappers titled, Mountain Men, was So you can see that Idaho offers state in the made into the 1972 movie, Jeremiah a lot of literary talent, and a smaller, country. Johnson, starring Robert Redford. competitive market, if you look at Of course, You can buy his most famous book, a total statewide population of just this magazine Children of God, at amzn.to/2KJMCNf under two million people. has a wide Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, All The The Idaho Commission for the Arts reach, with Light We Cannot See by Anthony offers a Writer in Residence program strong Doerr (Boise, Idaho), remained on the complete with a $15,000 award. Visit readership New York Times bestseller list for over arts.idaho.gov for more information. in Canada, 117 weeks, back in 2016. The current Writer in Residence is Great Britain, Read more about him at www. Kim Barnes, born in Lewiston, Idaho. Australia, as anthonydoerr.com. Her books: In the Wilderness, and well as within Emily Ruskovich grew up in Hungry for the World, both memoirs, the United the Idaho Panhandle, on Hoodoo as well as Finding Caruso, detail the States. If you mountain. 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