Tall Poppy Writers

Historical Fiction Books About the 1920s Jazz Era

Miscellany

Jazz Age Magic Lights up the 2020s

In this Tall Poppy Writers article, author Denny S. Bryce shares her fascination with the Jazz Age, some sensational headlines from the era, the research and archive-combing required to write a novel set in the 1920s, and some recommendations of other great books set in the era. What is it…

Denny S. BryceJuly 15, 2024

Fiction Miscellany

Alli Frank and Asha Youmans Tackle Writing as a Team Sport

Humans have engaged in sport since the beginning of our time. Around the world people compete in camel racing and hot chili eating, ping-pong and cheese rolling, yo-yoing, bullfighting, war games and team sports of all kinds. Reasons for participation include practicing discipline, seeking challenge, a quest for perfection, notoriety,…

Alli Frank and Asha YoumansJuly 8, 2024

Miscellany

Every House Has a Story

Every house has a story. And, if you had asked my friends and family members the day my husband and I went to look at a historic house on the coast of North Carolina’s third oldest town, they would have said ours had a cautionary tale. They weren’t totally wrong.…

Kristy Woodson HarveyJuly 1, 2024

Fiction Listicles

From Royal Corgis to Fictional Felines: Celebrating Pets

I’ve always adored stories that included pets in them, even better when the pet has a voice. Just this past week, my own novel The Queen’s Faithful Companion was published. Getting to share the wonderful story that is Queen Elizabeth’s relationship with her corgi Susan was one of the greatest…

Eliza KnightJune 17, 2024

Match Making for Beginners by Maddie Dawson

Miscellany Romance

A Writer’s Journey Through Wart Wishes and Matchmaking Marvels

My grandmother wasn’t like other people’s grandmothers. Not only did she live in a house perched on stilts over a lake in northern Florida — where she calmly contended with alligators, water moccasins, and violent thunderstorms daily — but she also knew how to wish warts away. Yep. Warts. She…

Maddie DawsonJune 11, 2024

Listicles Romance

Sports Romances That Knock It Out of the Park

Tall Poppy writer and author Priscilla Oliveras shares the origins of her love for sports romances and a list of her recommended faves. Practically everyone who knows me, receives my News & Notes email filled with insider info, or follows me on social media knows that I’m a BIG sports…

Priscilla OliverasJune 6, 2024

Lets Pretend This Will Work by Maddie Dawson

Romance

Discover Your Perfect Summer Escape with Maddie Dawson’s Heartwarming and Hilarious Novel

The search for your ideal beach read ends here! Maddie Dawson’s Let’s Pretend This Will Work (June 1, Lake Union Publishing) balances humor and heart and is an absolute must for your summer reading list. Much like Cinderella, who has a fairy godmother and a magic slipper, Mimi Perkins, Dawson’s…

Suzy EnglandMay 15, 2024

Fiction Miscellany

Be Careful What You Witch For: Revenge and the Salem Witch Trials

Revenge gets a bad rap. This uncharitable thought popped into my mind as I was reading Stacy Schiff’s The Witches, a nonfiction masterpiece that explores the ins, outs, and maddening cruelties of the Salem witch trials. Schiff provides a handy-dandy “cast of characters” at the start of the book, and…

T.M. BlanchetMay 8, 2024

Listicles Romance

The Best of Harlequin Special Edition Category Romances

I was about ten years old when I finished reading my way through the children’s and young adult section of my local public library, though admittedly, tiny sections as compared to today, and I crossed over to the adult book section. No librarian stopped me, and I eventually found myself…

Tif MarceloApril 15, 2024

Miscellany Thrillers

Hank Phillippi Ryan on Fixing Fact Through Fiction in “One Wrong Word”

Guess what I heard? But—you have to promise not to tell. Is there any one of us who wouldn't lean closer and listen to the person who asked us that? Especially if the question was whispered, hushed, delivered with a sense of drama? “Guess what I heard?” means there's a…

Hank Phillippi RyanApril 1, 2024

Fiction Miscellany

Author Aimie K. Runyan Shares The Joy of Writing Foodie Fiction

Julia Child famously said, “People who love to eat are the best people” and in my experience, she’s right—and they are terribly fun to write about. In my latest novel, The Memory of Lavender and Sage, the protagonist Tempèsta Luddington is a disaffected food critic who, despite having a great…

Aimie K. RunyanMarch 15, 2024

Listicles

5 Springtime Books that Showcase the Beauty Around Us

Jenni L. WalshApril 27, 2023

Listicles

Six Books That Dive Deep Into the Glitz and Glamour of Old Hollywood

What is it about Hollywood of yore and its black-and-white icons that continues to seduce readers today? There’s something about the past that feels nostalgic, more wholesome. But as we dig deeper, losing ourselves in the pages of a good book that goes behind the scenes in Tinsel Town, the…

Heather WebbMarch 23, 2023

Fiction Listicles

6 Spring Releases for the Serious Reader

While summer beach reads will be delivering lighthearted escapes to shelves soon, these deeper spring reads will satisfy the intellectual yearnings of any true bibliophile.

Julie CantrellMarch 9, 2023

Fiction Listicles

Spring 2023 Novels Centering Brave Women, Veiled Pasts and the Periphery of History

Many readers asked me why I chose to write historical fiction at the events I attended last year. I didn’t have enough time to elaborate, but if I could, I would trace back to my childhood in China, where I first encountered the genre. Growing up there, I perceived the…

Weina Dai RandelJanuary 5, 2023

BooksToScreen Fiction Listicles

5 Novels to Read If You Loved Netflix’s “Dead to Me”

I’m not really one to make New Year’s resolutions about dieting or gym memberships. I would never cheat on my Peloton and I’m getting too old to give up ice cream. (Gluten, yes. Chunky Monkey, no thank you.) So this year, most of my New Year's Resolutions resemble a television…

Amy ImpellizeriJanuary 12, 2023

Jazz Age Magic Lights up the 2020s

Alli Frank and Asha Youmans Tackle Writing as a Team Sport

Every House Has a Story

From Royal Corgis to Fictional Felines: Celebrating Pets

A Writer’s Journey Through Wart Wishes and Matchmaking Marvels

Sports Romances That Knock It Out of the Park

Be Careful What You Witch For: Revenge and the Salem Witch Trials

The Best of Harlequin Special Edition Category Romances

Hank Phillippi Ryan on Fixing Fact Through Fiction in “One Wrong Word”

Author Aimie K. Runyan Shares The Joy of Writing Foodie Fiction

5 Springtime Books that Showcase the Beauty Around Us

Six Books That Dive Deep Into the Glitz and Glamour of Old Hollywood

6 Spring Releases for the Serious Reader

Spring 2023 Novels Centering Brave Women, Veiled Pasts and the Periphery of History

5 Novels to Read If You Loved Netflix’s “Dead to Me”

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