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When You Don’t Have a Hallmark Mother

As a young adult, I spent more time than most pondering the selection of Mother’s Day greetings at my local stationery store. I pored over the message inside each card to find something, how shall I say, accurate? I balked at the prose inside one that said, “Mom, you’ve always…
Jane Pollak
May 10, 2019
Miscellany

When Life Gets in the Way of a Book Launch

Like a true first-time author, I had publication month all mapped out in my mind. As the date got closer, my anxieties and excitement mounted. The moment I’d been working for years toward was almost here, and nothing was going to get in my way. There would be travel for…
Carly Gelsinger
October 10, 2018
Miscellany

Sorting Through Fiction and Non-Fiction Narratives

At Delphinium, we often ponder the difference between fiction and non-fiction narrative, and it seems more and more that these two literary distinctions are being blurred. Even though the memoir genre is still thriving, it’s now generally understood that memoirs are embellished, truth laced with invention; and yet it’s also…
Joseph Olshan
August 7, 2018
Miscellany

Gentleman Prefer Books: Flirty Marilyn Monroe Reads

BookTrib is partnering with Early Bird Books to bring you more great content, including this article on the 55th anniversary of Marilyn's death. We're turning to the books that reveal the woman behind the glamour who led a troubled, but extraordinary life. In June of 1926, a girl named Norma Jeane was born to an unknown…
Early Bird Books
August 11, 2017