A Return to Reading Romance: Exploring the Genre’s Avid Popularity and What Makes Romance So Special

Last August, in honor of Romance Awareness Month and Read-A-Romance Month, I wrote an article for Main Street highlighting the insights and accomplishments of independently published romance novelists AK Landow, Brooke O’Brien, Jade Dollston, and Maggie Rawdon. According to market research company Circana (formerly IRI Worldwide and The NPD Group), US print romance sales […]

By |2024-08-01T21:02:46-04:00August 1st, 2024|Author Profiles & Bookish Things, Featured Article|

Author Jodé Millman Has More to Say About True Crimes in the Hudson Valley

If you live in the Hudson Valley and enjoy reading true crime novels, then you are undoubtedly familiar with attorney and author Jodé Millman’s Queen City Crimes series that takes place in our very own city of Poughkeepsie. What you may not know is that Millman was personally connected to two of the crimes. 

The […]

By |2023-06-03T14:46:52-04:00June 3rd, 2023|Author Profiles & Bookish Things|

Keeping the Faith

Within the last few years, many of us have experienced challenging times. With the arrival of the pandemic, we’ve all faced varying amounts of uncertainty, fear, and the effects of isolation. Many of us were overburdened as we juggled our jobs and the demands of family life during a time of remote work and home […]

By |2022-05-28T18:25:17-04:00May 28th, 2022|Author Profiles & Bookish Things|

HOT for the summer! Look no Further for your Top 5 Summer Romance must-reads.

It’s time to get HOT for summer with these top 5 summer romance books. We’ve partnered with Oblong Books & Music to bring you our 5 favorite authors and their books that are sure to raise the mercury.

Bow-chicka-bow-wow!!

These books are sizzlers – you’ve been forewarned – so find a quiet spot, a wine glass in […]

By |2021-05-25T17:47:18-04:00May 25th, 2021|Author Profiles & Bookish Things, Main Street|

Critically Acclaimed Local Author Phoebe North Adds Strange Creatures to Celebrated Young Adult Collection

Writing from their home in the Hudson Valley, author Phoebe North, graduate of the University of Florida’s MFA program in poetry, gears up for the release of their brand-new young adult fiction novel Strange Creatures in June. North’s latest outing focuses on the characters of Annie, her […]

By |2021-05-18T13:32:41-04:00May 17th, 2021|Author Profiles & Bookish Things, Featured Artist, WOTS|

Local Author Unearths the Follies of the Legal World in Bombshell new Satire

What’s left to do — but laugh? In a year filled with overbearing consternation, uncertainty and yes, tragedy, we could all benefit from literary escape as we inch closer toward a new year. Luckily for readers in the Tri-Corner, a new author has burst onto the scene with a scathingly funny satire that […]

By |2020-12-26T10:46:13-05:00December 22nd, 2020|Author Profiles & Bookish Things, Main Street|
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