“Genius of the Swamp” by Dale MonetteHaley’s, 120 pagesHaley’s Publishing in Athol has cemented its commitment to local authors and the local...
Christine Copeland of Northfield takes a walk in the woods every morning with her dog. Those walks inspired her to begin a series of children’s...
Unexpectedly, our rural area houses a number of writers and scholars with a wide range of interests, including Kathe Geist.Geist, who spent decades...
‘A Way Up the North Fork” is subtitled “A Girl’s Search for Home in the Wilderness.” The subtitle is apt.In the early 1970s, Annie Chappell was...
Jorma Kansanen first considered penning young-adult (YA) fantasy in the late 1990s. He was employed at the athletics department at the University...
“Pilgrim Maya” by Bela Breslau and Stephen Billias (Odeon Press, 372 pages, $16)As “Pilgrim Maya” opens, its heroine is immersed in sadness. Maya...
The pandemic has been universally hard on families. Annie and Gilly DeCosta of Royalston have managed to turn adversity into creativity, however...
In Britain and parts of North America, he’s probably best known as Rifleman Harris, a key character in “Sharpe’s Rifles,” a popular British TV...